LA CHAPELLE ROYALE

Gilles: Requiem & Diligam te, Domine

Requiem
Diligam te, Domine

Agnès Mellon (soprano), Véronique Gens (soprano), Howard Crook (tenor), Hervé Lamy (tenor) & Peter Kooy (bass)

La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe

Herreweghe's 1990 performance was the first modern reading of Gilles' celebrated Requiem from manuscript, shorn of

Andre Campra's beefed up orchestration, and very fine it is. In the style of the French Grand Motet, much of the singing is given to soloists and quite florid - as is the choral work.