Les Arts Florissants (ensemble)
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Baroque music
Baroque music describes a style of Western Classical music approximately extending from 1600 to 1760. This era follows the Renaissance and was followed in turn by the Classical era...
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Musical ensemble
A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...
in residence at the Théâtre de Caen in Caen
Caen
Caen is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados department and the capital of the Basse-Normandie region. It is located inland from the English Channel....
, France
France
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. The organization was founded by conductor William Christie
William Christie (musician)
William Lincoln Christie is an American-born French conductor and harpsichordist. He is noted as a specialist in baroque repertoire and as the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants....
in 1979. The ensemble derives its name from the 1685 opera
Les Arts florissants (opera)
Les arts florissants is a short chamber opera in five scenes by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.-History:...
by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Marc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
. The organization consists of a chamber orchestra of period instruments and a small vocal ensemble. Current notable members include soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese is a lyric soprano. After success as a young child in singing competitions in Australia, she moved to the USA where she developed an operatic career...
and tenor
Tenor
The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Paul Agnew
Paul Agnew
Paul Agnew is a Scottish operatic tenor.Agnew read music as a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen and the Gothic Voices, before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s.Closely associated with William...
, who has served as assistant conductor since 2007. Jonathan Cohen is also on the conducting staff. Christie remains the organization's Artistic Director.
Although not specifically a baroque opera ensemble, it is within this field that Les Arts Florissants has achieved its greatest successes. The majority of the ensemble's performances are of period operas (both staged and in concert), many of which are available on CD on the Harmonia Mundi
Harmonia Mundi
Harmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony"....
and Erato
Erato Records
Erato Records is a record label founded in 1953 to promote French classical music. In 1992 it became part of Warner Bros. Records. In 1999 Erato launched a subsidiary Detour Records....
labels and on DVD. The group first drew international acclaim in the area of opera in December 1986-January 1987 with a production of Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...
's Atys
Atys (Lully)
Atys is a tragédie en musique in a prelude and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a French-language libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, January 10, 1676...
at the Opéra-Comique
Opéra-Comique
The Opéra-Comique is a Parisian opera company, which was founded around 1714 by some of the popular theatres of the Parisian fairs. In 1762 the company was merged with, and for a time took the name of its chief rival the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, and was also called the...
in Paris
Paris
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. The opera had not been performed since 1753 and Christie had unearthed the score at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Bibliothèque nationale de France
The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...
and created a performing edition. William Christie: "There were a number of important moments in the history of the Arts Florissants, but there's one moment that obviously stands out - and that's the moment when we produced Atys." Christie had been approached by the director of the Paris Opera
Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera company of Paris, France. It was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Académie d'Opéra and shortly thereafter was placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully and renamed the Académie Royale de Musique...
, Massimo Bogianckino, to think about putting on a Lully opera. Christie was advised by the Opéra-Comique's Thierry Fouquet that Quinault
Philippe Quinault
Philippe Quinault , French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.- Biography :Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen...
's libretto for Atys would demand an extraordinary stage director - Jean-Marie Villégier took this role and he, together with Christie, created Atys. The production marked the renaissance of Baroque Opera in France. The ensemble has continued in a similar vein of presenting rarely heard works at their home in Caen and on the stages of major opera houses and concert venues like the Teatro Real
Teatro Real
The Teatro Real or simply El Real , is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.-History:...
, the Opéra national du Rhin
Opéra national du Rhin
LOpéra national du Rhin is an opera company which performs in Alsace, eastern France, and which includes the Opéra in Strasbourg, the company's ballet in Mulhouse , and the "Opéra Studio" , a training centre for young singers, in Colmar...
, the Opéra National de Paris, Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, United States, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance....
, and the Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre
The Barbican Centre is the largest performing arts centre in Europe. Located in the City of London, England, the Centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and a conservatory...
. The ensemble also occasionally presents works from the standard repertoire, most particularly a number of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
.
Les Arts Florissants has also had a number of successes in the concert repertoire. The organization has performed and recorded a number of oratorio
Oratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
s, cantata
Cantata
A cantata is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir....
s, madrigals
Madrigal (music)
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Traditionally, polyphonic madrigals are unaccompanied; the number of voices varies from two to eight, and most frequently from three to six....
, mass
Mass (music)
The Mass, a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music...
es, motet
Motet
In classical music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions.-Etymology:The name comes either from the Latin movere, or a Latinized version of Old French mot, "word" or "verbal utterance." The Medieval Latin for "motet" is motectum, and the Italian...
s, and other musical forms typical of early music. Occasionally the ensemble has made forays into contemporary repertoire, notably performing the world premiere of Betsy Jolas
Betsy Jolas
Betsy Jolas is a French composer.Betsy Jolas was born in Paris. Resident in the United States from 1940 until 1946, she studied composition with Paul Boepple and piano with Helen Schnabel. On her return to France she continued her studies with Simone Plé-Caussade, Darius Milhaud and Olivier...
's Motets III - Hunc igitor terrorem at a gala on the occasion of the ensemble's 20th anniversary in 1999.
Many former members of Les Arts Florissants have gone on to have successful music careers outside of the organization. These include several internationally renowned conductors in the field of early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
, including Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski
Marc Minkowski is a French conductor of classical music, especially known for his interpretations of French Baroque works. His mother is American, and his father was Alexandre Minkowski, a Polish-French professor of pediatrics and one of the founders of neonatology...
(founder of Les Musiciens du Louvre
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Les Musiciens du Louvre is a French period instrument ensemble, formed in 1982. Originally based in Paris, since 1996 it has been based in the Couvent des Minimes in Grenoble. The Guardian considers it one of the best orchestras in the world.- History:Founded by Marc Minkowski in 1982, the...
), Christophe Rousset
Christophe Rousset
Christophe Rousset is a French harpsichordist and conductor, specializing in the performance of baroque music on period instruments.-Biography:...
(founder of Les Talens Lyriques
Les Talens Lyriques
Les Talens Lyriques is a baroque orchestra founded in 1991 by French conductor Christophe Rousset.The ensemble takes its name from Jean-Philippe Rameau's opéra-ballet Les fêtes d'Hébé ou les talens lyriques .- External links :...
), Hugo Reyne (founder of La Simphonie du Marais), and Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet
Hervé Niquet is a French conductor, harpsichordist, tenor, and the director of Le Concert Spirituel, specializing in French Baroque music.-Biography:...
(founder of Le Concert Spirituel).
Partial list of productions
- 1982 : Les arts florissants (Charpentier)
- 1983 : Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)
- 1983 : Il Ballo delle Ingrate (Monteverdi)
- 1985 : Actéon (Charpentier)
- 1985 : Anacréon (Rameau)
- 1985 : La Passion selon Saint-Jean (Bach)
- 1986 : Actéon de (Charpentier)
- 1986 : Anacréon (Rameau)
- 1986 : Atys (Lully)
- 1987 : Atys (Lully)
- 1989 : Atys (Lully)
- 1989 : The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
- 1990 : Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
- 1990 : Le Malade imaginaire (Charpentier)
- 1990 : Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
- 1991 : Castor et Pollux (Rameau)
- 1992 : Atys (Lully)
- 1993 : Médée (Charpentier)
- 1993 : Orlando (Handel)
- 1993 : Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
- 1994 : Médée (Charpentier)
- 1994 : Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
- 1994 : Médée (Charpentier)
- 1995 : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
- 1995 : Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
- 1995 : King Arthur (Purcell)
- 1996 : Acis and Galatea (Handel)
- 1996 : Alcina (Handel)
- 1996 : Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
- 1996 : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
- 1996 : Semele (Handel)
- 1997 : Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)
- 1997 : Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
- 1998 : Les Pèlerins de la Mecque (Gluck)
- 1999 : Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
- 1999 : Alcina (Handel)
- 2000 : Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi)
- 2000 : Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
- 2001 : Il Tito (Cesti)
- 2002 : Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi)
- 2002 : L'incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)
- 2003 : Les Boréades (Rameau)
- 2003 : Les Indes galantes (Rameau)
- 2003 : Serse (Handel)
- 2004 : Les Paladins (Rameau)
- 2004 : Hercules (Handel)
- 2006 : Hercules (Handel)
- 2006 : Die Zauberflöte (Mozart)
- 2006 : Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
- 2008 : Armide (Lully)
- 2010 : The Fairy Queen (Purcell)
Discography
- A Purcell companion, Henry PurcellHenry PurcellHenry Purcell – 21 November 1695), was an English organist and Baroque composer of secular and sacred music. Although Purcell incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements into his compositions, his legacy was a uniquely English form of Baroque music...
, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1994 - Acis and Galatea, George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
, Paris, Erato, 1999 - Actéon, Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1982
- Actéon Intermède pour Le mariage forcé, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2001
- Airs de cour (1689), Michel LambertMichel LambertMichel Lambert was a French singing master, theorbist and composer.Lambert was born at Champigny-sur-Veude, France. He received his musical education as an altar boy at the Chapel of Gaston d'Orléans. He studied also with Pierre de Nyert in Paris. Since 1636, he was known as a singing teacher...
, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1992 - Alcina, George Frideric Handel, Paris, Erato, 2000
- Actéon Intermède pour Le mariage forcé, Marc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine CharpentierMarc-Antoine Charpentier, , was a French composer of the Baroque era.Exceptionally prolific and versatile, he produced compositions of the highest quality in several genres...
, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia, 1981 - Anacréon ballet en un acte, Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1982 - Antiennes "O" de l'Avent, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1993
- Atys tragédie lyrique en un prologue et cinq actes ; Dies Irae ; Petits motets ; Airs pour le clavecin, Jean Baptiste Lully, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1993
- Ballo delle ingrate : livre VIII des madrigaux ; Sestina, Claudio Monteverdi, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1983
- Baroque festival vol. 1., Firenze, CD Classica, 1993
- Caecelia, virgo et martyr Filius prodigus : H. 399 ; Magnificat, H. 73, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2003
- Cantates, Louis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas ClérambaultLouis-Nicolas Clérambault was a French musician, best known as an organist and composer. He was born and died in Paris.-Biography:...
, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1990 - Cantates françaises d’André CampraAndré CampraAndré Campra was a French composer and conductor.Campra was one of the leading French opera composers in the period between Jean-Baptiste Lully and Jean-Philippe Rameau. He wrote several tragédies en musique, but his chief claim to fame is as the creator of a new genre, opéra-ballet...
, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2000 - Cantique de Moÿse ; Veni sponsa mea ; Trois fantaisies à quatre pour les violes ; Espoir de toute âme affligée ; O bone Jesu d’Étienne MouliniéÉtienne MouliniéÉtienne Moulinié was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine , Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for Gaston d'Orléans, the younger brother of the king...
, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1980 - Castor & Pollux : chœurs et danses, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1999
- Chansons de la Renaissance, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2005
- Concerti grossi op. 6, George Frideric Handel, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1995
- David et Jonathas, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1998
- De Lully à Rameau, Jean Baptiste Lully, et al., Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1996
- Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers H.488, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Erato, 1995
- Deux Oratorios, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1980
- Dido & Æneas, Henry Purcell, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1994
- Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
, Paris, Erato, 1999 - Die Zauberflöte KV 620, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paris, Erato, 1996
- Divertissements, airs et concerts de Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Erato, 1999
- Grands Motets lorrains pour Louis XIV, Henry Desmarest, Paris, Erato, 2000
- Great Mass in C minor K.427, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paris, Erato, 1999
- Hippolyte et Aricie, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, Erato, 1997
- Idoménée, André Campra, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1992
- Il Ballo delle ingrate Sestina, Claudio Monteverdi, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1996
- Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Claudio Monteverdi, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1997
- Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Claudio Monteverdi, [S.l.], Virgin Classics, 2003
- Il Sant'Alessio, Stefano LandiStefano LandiStefano Landi was an Italian composer and teacher of the early Baroque Roman School. He was an influential early composer of opera, and wrote the earliest opera on a historical subject: Sant'Alessio .-Biography:Landi was born in Rome, the capital of the Papal States.In 1595 he joined the Collegio...
, Paris, Erato, 1996 - In nativitatem Domini canticum : un oratorio de Noël, H. 416 ; Sur la naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ : H. 482, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1983
- Jefferson in Paris, Richard Robbins, New York, Angel, 1995
- Jephté, Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2002
- King Arthur, Henry Purcell, [S.l.n.d.], 1995
- La musique sacrée à travers les âges, Marc-Antoine Charpentier et al., [S.l.], Harmonia Mundi, 1998
- La reine des fées, Henry Purcell, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1989
- Le Cantique de Moÿse, Étienne MouliniéÉtienne MouliniéÉtienne Moulinié was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Languedoc, and when he was a child he sang at the Narbonne Cathedral. Through the influence of his brother Antoine , Moulinié gained an appointment at court, as the director of music for Gaston d'Orléans, the younger brother of the king...
, Arles, Harmonia Mundii, 2004 - Le Grand Siècle français musique au temps de Louis XIV de Kenneth Gilbert, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1997
- Le malade imaginaire, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1990
- Le reniement de Saint Pierre ; Méditations pour la Carême, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1985
- Leçons de ténèbres, François CouperinFrançois CouperinFrançois Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Couperin family.-Life:Couperin was born in Paris...
, Paris, Erato, 1997 - Les antiennes "O" de l'Avent : H 36 à 43 ; Noël sur les instruments : H 534 ; In Nativitatem D.N.J.C. canticum : H 414, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1990
- Les Arts florissants : Idylle en musique ; Intermède pour le mariage forcé et la comtesse d'Escarbagnas, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Saint-Michel de Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1982
- Les Boréades, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Waldron, Opus Arte, 2004
- Les divertissements de Versailles, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, Erato, 2002
- Les fêtes d’Hébé, Jean-Philippe Rameau, [S.l.s.n.], 1997
- Les Indes galantes, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Waldron, Opus Arte, 2005
- Le jardin des voix, William Christie, [S.l.], Virgin Classics, 2006
- Les vingt figures réthoriques [sic] d'une passion XXe festival de Saintes, Francesco CavalliFrancesco CavalliFrancesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...
, Luigi Rossi, et al. [S.l.], K. 617, 1991 - Louis XIV Musique à Versailles au temps du Roi Soleil, [S.l.], Harmonia Mundi, 2004
- Lully, Jean Baptiste Lully, Arles, France : Harmonia Mundi, 1993
- Madrigal classique, madrigal soliste, comédie madrigalesque. L’âge d’or du madrigal, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1998
- Madrigaux à 5 voix, Carlo Gesualdo, prince de VenosaCarlo GesualdoCarlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo di Venosa or Gesualdo da Venosa , Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian nobleman, lutenist, composer, and murderer....
, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1988 - Madrigaux des VIIe et VIIIe livres, Claudio Monteverdi, Saint-Michel de Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1981
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2004
- Médée, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1984
- Messiah, George Frideric Handel, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1994
- Motets & madrigaux Il ballo delle ingrate ; Selva morale ; L'incoronazione di Poppea, Claudio Monteverdi, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1992
- Motets, Guillaume Bouzignac, [S.l.n.d], 1993
- Mozart, Entfuhrung aus dem Serail, Schäfer, Petibon, Christie, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, [S.l.n.d], 1999
- Musique de ballet 1979-1999 : 20e anniversaire Les Arts Florissants, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Erato, 1999
- Opera's first master The musical dramas of Claudio Monteverdi, Claudio Monteverdi, Pompton Plains, Amadeus Press, 2006
- Oratorio per la Settimana Santa ; Un peccator pentito, Luigi Rossi, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1989
- Orfeo, Luigi Rossi, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1991
- Pastorale sur la naissance de N.S. Jesus-Christ, H. 483 ; Magnificat à 3 voix, H. 73, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Saint-Michel de Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1981
- Petits motets, Michel-Richard Delalande, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1997
- Pièces de clavecin (1724) Les Indes galantes: suite d'orchestre ; Anacréon : ballet en un acte, scène 5 ; In convertendo, grand motet, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1992
- Pierre Philosophale, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Paris, Erato, 1999
- Pygmalion ; Nélée et Myrthis, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1992
- Rameau, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Arles, Harmonia Mundi Plus, 1992
- Reniement de Saint-Pierre, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, [S.l.s.n.], 1985
- Requiem : KV. 626 Ave verum corpus : KV 618 Introitus, Kyrie, Dies irae (excerpts), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paris, Erato, 1995
- Selva morale e spirituale , Claudio Monteverdi, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 2003
- Soleil musiques au siècle de Louis XIV, Paris, Erato, 1999
- Te Deum ; motets, Guillaume Bouzignac, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1993
- Te Deum ; Super flumina Babilonis ; Confitebor tibi Domine, Michel-Richard Delalande, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1991
- Te Deum, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1997
- Theodora, George Frideric Handel, Paris, Erato, 2003
- Un Oratorio de Noël ; In nativitatem Domini canticum, H. 416 ; Sur la naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ H. 482 de Marc Antoine Charpentier, Saint-Michel-de-Provence, Harmonia Mundi, 1983
- Voyage en Italie : deux siècles de musique à Rome, Venise, Ferrare, 1550-1750, Arles, Harmonia Mundi, 1998
- Zoroastre, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, Erato, 2002