The Charpentier Project

In 2008 The Ebor Singers embark on the long-term project of performing and recording the complete sacred music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Charpentier (c 1643-1704) lived and worked in Paris during the reign of Louis XIV.  His rivalry with Lully, a court favourite of Louis XIV, ensured that his music was all but forgotten at his death. 

The Project will place Charpentier’s music in the context of French music (Lully, Du Mont, Bouzignac, Lalande) and the wider context of European developments (Italy, Germany, and special emphasis on England).


Programmes:

Love in the Land of the Chitterling Sausages

The early ballet de cour of Moulinié and Boesset


Songs of Remembrance

Musical homages by 16th- and 17th-century composers to commemorate the death of a patron or contemporary, including works by Henry Purcell, Heinrich Schutz and Marc-Antoine                       

Charpentier