Fabien Armengaud, Les Folies Françoises & Les Pages & Les Chantres Du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles - Jean Gilles: Messe des morts (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 63:49 minutes | 1,25 GB
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download
Jean Gilles (Tarascon, 1688), Chapel Master of Toulouse Cathedral from 1697, was a genius struck down at the age of just 37, in 1705. The entire kingdom admired his famed Mass for the Dead, which was played at his own funeral "he sealed his score with his last will and testament, in which he asked that the Chapter have this mass sung to lay his soul to rest", then performed throughout the century, both in concert and for the funerals of Campra (1744), Rameau (1764) and Louis XV (1774).