Ensemble Sébastien De Brossard & Fabien Armengaud

Silentium, Motets Pour Taille Ensemble Sébastien De Brossard & Fabien Armengaud

This programme is the evocation of an imaginary library, that of Jean-Baptiste Matho, a famous singer of the Chapelle royale during Louis IV's reign. It is a musical testament from the turn of the 18th century, in the very particular world of the small motet for taille (tenor), that features respectively Charpentier, Campra, Bouteiller, Suffret and of course Brossard, who engages us with this magnificent exordium: 'Silentium. Dormi in hortis dilecta mea. Silence. Sleep in the garden my beloved.'