Lamentations by Jean Gilles, CMBV

 

Hello,

 

I hope you will appreciate a new publication of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles:

 

3 Lamentations (for the vespers of the day before the Holy Thursday, Friday and Saturday); duration: 40:00

Composed by Jean Gilles (1668-1705), edited by Françoise Talvard.

 

For 4 soloists (SATB) [treble, high tenor, tenor and bass], 4-voice choir (SATB) and string orchestra, to which may be added wind instruments (doubling).

 

These three Lamentations (or Leçons de Ténèbres) were probably composed around 1692, for the Tenebrae office, on a text extracted from the Book of Lamentations of Jeremiah.

These scores subtly combine dramatic passages with purely musical moments, notably the vocalises on the Hebrew letters.

 

You can download some music excerpts in pdf file here:

– First Lamentation

– Second Lamentation

– Third Lamentation

 

Full score and performing materials are available at:

– Theodore Front, in California

http://www.tfront.com/p-310820-lamentations-edited-by-francoise-talvard.aspx

 

– dance Oremus dance, in Toronto

240 Dovercourt Road

M6J 3E1 TORONTO – ONTARIO – CANADA

Tel. + 1.416.536.9002

Contact: P.-J. DWYER

 

To contact me: , see also http://editions.cmbv.fr.