Les Argonautes, Jonas Descotte
AP361 - 1CD - 84' - Nov 1, 2024
This album presents a vibrant and refined interpretation of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, a bold work composed at the age of 22. Surrounded by the Argonautes and an exceptional cast of soloists, Jonas Descotte pairs this youthful masterpiece with works by Lotti—Handel’s friend and mentor—offering a response marked by maturity and finesse.
Although regularly performed, little has come down to us about Händel's ‘Dixit Dominus’. A work by a 22-year-old composer, its impressive virtuosity reflects the state of mind of Händel at the time: fiery, daring and sensitive.
Surrounded by Les Argonautes and a splendid cast of soloists (Roset, Allérat, Pichanick, Billiemaz and Mazurov), Jonas Descotte has chosen to work with a limited number of players to deliver a fresh reading, guided by dramatic intent, generosity, precision and suppleness of line. And in response to the Saxon's genius, the ensemble summons Lotti, his friend and mentor, with his Dixit Dominus, a Crucifixus for 5 and his Miserere mei, responding to this three-hundred-year-old youth with ardour, maturity and exceptional finesse.
Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
Dixit Dominus in G Minor
1. Dixit Dominus
2. Judicabit in nationibus
3. De torrente in via bibets [solo] Maxence Billiemaz · Anthea Pichanick
4. Sicut erat in principio
5. Cruxifixus à 5
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Dixit Dominus HWV 232
6. Dixit Dominus
7. Virgam virtutis tuæ [solo] Anthea Pichanick
8. Tecum principium in die virtutis [solo] Camille Allérat
9. Juravit Dominus
10. Tu es sacerdos in æternum
11. Dominus a dextris tuis
12. Judicabit in nationibus
13. De torrente in via bibet [solo] Julie Roset · Camille Allérat
14. Gloria Patri, et Filio
Antonio Lotti
Miserere mei in C Minor
15. Miserere mei Deus
16. Et secundum multitudinem [solo] Maxence Billiemaz · Ilia Mazurov
17. Amplius lava me [solo] Camille Allérat · Anthea Pichanick
18. Quoniam iniquitatem meam
19. Tibi soli peccavi [solo] Julie Roset
20. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus [solo] Anthea Pichanick
21. Ecce enim veritatem
22. Asperges me hysopo [solo] Camille Allérat
23. Auditui meo dabis gaudium [solo] Pichanick · Billiemaz · Mazurov
24. Averte faciem tuam [solo] Anthea Pichanick
25. Cor mundum crea in me
26. Redde mihi lætitiam [solo] Julie Roset · Camille Allérat
27. Docebo ininquos vias tuas [solo] Billiemaz · Mazurov
28. Libera me de sanguinibus [solo] Julie Roset
29. Domine labia mea aperies [solo] Anthea Pichanick
30. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium
31. Sacrificium Deo spiritus [solo] Pichanick · Billiemaz · Mazurov
32. Benigne fac Domine [solo] Julie Roset · Anthea Pichanick
33. Tunc acceptabis sacrificium
