De Lalande: 3 Leçons de ténèbres

To commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of Michel-Richard de Lalande we present here his Leçons de ténèbres, a quintessentially French genre so deeply marked by Gallican dolorism, into which Lalande infuses a vocal theatricality unheard of for the time. Micaëla Etcheverry’s angelic vocal melismas blend here with the accompaniment of Jean-Louis Charbonnier on the viola da gamba and Laurence Boulay on the organ and harpsichord.