Herve Niquet likes to say that recording is a source of stress and sometimes tension: “None of that was the case here,” he continues. He has been performing this Couperin/de Lalande programme with the female singers of Le Concert Spirituel for over ten years: “The seven singers know every nook and cranny of these highly complex scores. So it was time to record this testimony to ten years of work. (…) I like the parallel between the singers of Le Concert Spirituel and the nuns who sing these lamentations every year throughout their lives in their monastery.”

Tracklist:

1. Missa Pro Defunctis~Introt
2. Premire Leon De Tnbres A Voix Seule~Incipit lamentatio
3. Premire Leon De Tnbres A Voix Seule~Aleph
4. Premire Leon De Tnbres A Voix Seule~Beth
5. Premire Leon De Tnbres A Voix Seule~Ghimel
6. Premire Leon De Tnbres A Voix Seule~Daleth
7. Premire Leon De Tnbres A Voix Seule~Heth
8. Premi