Marc Antoine Charpentier, Henri Desmarest TE Deum

Vincent Dumestre, Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poeme Harmonique - Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (2013)

Vincent Dumestre, Capella Cracoviensis, Le Poème Harmonique - Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 55:34 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alpha | # 952 | Recorded: 2013

The large-scale sacred music of the French court remains among the most neglected repertories of the Baroque era. Here's an excellent place to start with it. The Te Deum, the quintessential Catholic hymn of praise, was a favored text for big moments at court, and the two examples here must be among the finest. Jean-Baptiste Lully's Te Deum, LWV 55, during whose premiere the composer fatally stabbed himself in the foot with a staff, was composed to celebrate the Sun King's recovery, via a pretty ghastly surgery, from what appears to have been a severe case of hemorrhoids. The more cheerful occasion of Charpentier's setting was a French military victory in the Low Countries. In both cases you get full-scale splendor, with chorus, brass, and orchestra in harmonically static settings.
Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Charpentier: Te Deum; Messe de Mr de Mauroy; Leçons de Ténèbres & Méditations (2003)

Hervé Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel - Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Te Deum; Messe de Mr de Mauroy; Leçons de Ténèbres & Méditations (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 890 Mb | Total time: 180:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GSP 98003 | Recorded: 1999-2001

Niquet’s performances of Charpentier with Le Concert Spirituel are generally characterised by their liveliness. Niquet uses quite small forces, which emphasises the chamber nature of much of Charpentier’s writing, even in his grandest works. Niquet’s version of the Te Deum is one of the bounciest that I have heard. Crisp and lively playing from the instrumentalists emphasises the work’s dance-like qualities in a charming way. The faster sections are taken with remarkable speed and dexterity, but never feel rushed and they contrast admirably with the slower movements.

Prélude du Te Deum  Sheet music

Posted by Salieri at March 12, 2021
Prélude du Te Deum

Prélude du Te Deum
3 pages | PDF | 0.0 MB

Prelude from Te Deum  Sheet music

Posted by Salieri at April 14, 2021
Prelude from Te Deum

Prelude from Te Deum
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Prélude dal Te Deum. Organ transcription.  Sheet music

Posted by Salieri at April 13, 2021
Prélude dal Te Deum. Organ transcription.

Prélude dal Te Deum. Organ transcription.
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Te deum : Prelude  Sheet music

Posted by Salieri at May 2, 2021
Te deum : Prelude

Te deum : Prelude
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Ensemble les Surprises - Charpentier & Desmarest Te Deum (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ensemble les Surprises - Charpentier & Desmarest Te Deum (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 51:15 minutes | 932 MB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download
Deux Te Deum en miroir : celui, très célèbre, de Marc-Antoine Charpentier ; et celui, totalement inédit, d’Henry Desmarest.
Ensemble les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas - Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum (2024)

Ensemble les Surprises & Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas - Charpentier & Desmarest: Te Deum (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 51:03 | 241 Mb
Genre: Classical

Two Te Deums go head to head! The famous one by Marc-Antoine Charpentier and a completely new one by Henry Desmarets. Charpentier and Desmarets, remarkable composers of both sacred music and opera, shared a taste for Italian music and travel, but they also shared the disadvantage of having spent some time in Jean-Baptiste Lully's 'shadow'! Desmarets' life was somewhat tormented, between disgrace and exile; it was while he was superintendent of music at the Court of Lorraine that he composed two Te Deums, including the Te Deum "de Lyon". Written for the same ensemble as Charpentier's famous Te Deum, it uses trumpets and timpani for the grandiloquent sections. It is a true work of craftsmanship, notably in the variety of instrumentation, but also in its alternation of different vocal forces.
Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau - Barricades: Couperin, de Visée, Lambert, Marais, Charpentier, Rameau, Forqueray (2020)

Thomas Dunford, Jean Rondeau - Barricades: Couperin, de Visée, Lambert, Marais, Charpentier, Rameau, Forqueray (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 359 Mb | Total time: 70:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 9029526995 | Recorded: 2019

Both of us have grown up with this music from the cradle of our earliest infancy; […] It is music that allowed us to become what we are, while at the same time encouraging us to question things constantly. […] Now, playing the music – because, as we all know, we play rather than make music – has become a part that each of us plays, played here as a double act. Each one for himself, with his instrument as a crucible, and at the same time each of us for the other, since after all we are engaged in a performance.
Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations - Charpentier à la Chapelle Royale de Versailles (2014)

Jordi Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations - Charpentier à la Chapelle Royale de Versailles (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 857 Mb | Total time: 74:50+64:06 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alia Vox | # AVSA9905 | Recorded: 2004, 2013

It was 1988, and at that time the vast majority of Charpentier’s works were still accessible only via the original sources, so we had to rely on microfilms of the composer’s complete works collected in the twenty-eight manuscript volumes known as “Meslanges”. Poring over the manuscript pages on the screen of our microfilm reader, I studied and selected the works for the programme on the basis of the original texts.