LOUIS NICOLAS CLÉRAMBAULT (1676-1749): Magnificat for 3 Voices and Bass, C.136, Motets O piissima, o sanctissima mater, C.135, Germinavit radix Jesse, C.124, from Premier Livre d'Orgue: Suites in D Minor, C.46 and in G Minor, G.47.
Catalogue Number: 01L022
Label: Ligia
Reference: Lidi 0202156-05
Format: CD
Price: $17.98
Description: Two-thirds of this disc are taken up by Clérambault's organ suites, each in seven movements, possibly for use at Vespers or at the Mass, but which, at a time when the rococo style was becoming ascendant, represent the last of the great Livres d'Orgue of the Sun King's age. Two petit motets and a 20-minute setting of the Magnificat represent the sacred part of the composer's œuvre (which accounted for over half of his surviving compositions). ...in Ore mel...; Olivier Vernet (Tribuot organ of Saint-Martin de Seurre).