Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works.
Biography
Early years and first successes
Henri Desmarets was born into a modest Paris household in February 1661. His mother, Madeleine née Frottier, came from a bourgeois Parisian family. His father, Hugues Desmarets was a huissier in the cavalry at the Grand Châtelet. Desmarets' childhood was marked by his father's death when he was eight years old, his mother's subsequent re-marriage in 1670, and the death of his two siblings. In 1674, he entered into the service of King Louis XIV as a page and choir singer in the Chapelle Royale (Chapel Royal). According to Duron and Ferraton, he may have also previously sung as a choir boy in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois which was the parish church of the kings of France. While in the service of the king, he received a general education as well as music training from Pierre Robert and Henry Du Mont. He is also thought to have received training from the court composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who used the chapel pages as performers in his operas. By 1680 he had become an "ordinaire de la musique du roi" (court musician) and had composed the first of his grand motets (Te Deum 1678). The idyll-ballet which he composed in August 1682 to celebrate the birth of the king's grandson, the Duke of Burgundy found great favour at court and the following year he entered the competition to select four maîtres (masters) of the Chapelle Royale. He was only 22 at the time and according to some accounts, the King had vetoed his selection after he had passed the first round on account of his youth.
Henry Desmarets Usquequo Domine Les Arts Florissants William Christie
Henry Desmarets
Usquequo Domine
Les Arts Florissants William Christie
published: 11 Mar 2018
Henri Desmarets: 'Dominus Regnavit', Grand Motet
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Symphony - Recitative: Dominus regnavit, exultet terra (Chorus)
[03:18] II. Recitative: Nubes et caligo in circuitu ejus (Bass)
[05:09] III. Illuxerunt fulgura ejus orbi terrae (Chorus)
[06:37] IV. Recitative: Montes, sicut cera fluxerunt a facie Domini (Bass)
[07:47] V. Recitative: Annuntiaverunt caeli justitiam ejus (Soprano)
[10:17] VI.Confundantur omnes qui adorant sculptilia (Chorus)
[11:51] VII. Recitative: Adorate eum omnes angeli ejus (Soprano, Chorus)
[16:16] VIII. Recitative: Et exultaverunt filiae Judae propter judicia tua, Domine (Soprano)
[17:44] IX. Recitative: Quoniam tu Dominus altissimus super omnem terram (Counter-teno...
published: 01 Jan 2021
Henry Desmarets - Didon [L.-G.G. De Saintonge] (1693)
rousset
versailles
1999
radio france
published: 27 Oct 2015
Venus & Adonis. Henry Desmarest (1661 - 1741)
Henry Desmarest. Venus & Adonis. Tragédie lyrique en 1 prologue et 5 actes
* Ouverture
Act 1.
* Lieux écartez
* Vénus vient honorer
* Charmante indifférence
* De nos transports
* Tout rit
* C'est en vain
* Jeunes coeurs
* Premier Passe-pied
* Second Passe-pied pour les hautbois
* Chantons, célébrons les appas
* Vous qui reconnoissez
* Adonis est comblé
* Il te souvient
* Qu'ay-je entendu?
* Reprise du Premier Passe-pied
Act 2
* Hommages importuns
* Je vous voy seul
* Aimons à jamais
* Preus part, chère Cidippe
* Ay-je assez éprouvé
* Ta voix a réveillé mes transports
* Ministres de mes barbaries
* Quittons le séjour des en* fers
* Premier Air pour la Suite de la Jalousie
* Quel plaisir de répandre
Act 3
* Quelle pompe nouvelle
* Je ne puis rien comprendre
* Si je puis avérer
* Prem...
published: 09 Mar 2020
Henri Desmarets: 'De Profundis' Grand Motet
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Recitative and Chorus De profundis clamavi ad te (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[03:44] II. Recitative and Chorus Fiant aures tuae intendentes (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[05:30] III. Duet Si iniquitates observaveris (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[08:24] IV. Recitative Quia apud te propitiatio sat (Tenor)
[10:29] V. Recitative Sustinuit anima mea (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[12:21] VI. Duet A custodia matutina (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[14:27] VII. Recitative Quia apud Dominum (Tenor)
[16:23] VIII. Recitative Et ipse redimet (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[18:27] IX. Requiem aeternam (Chorus)
[21:43] X. Et lux perpetua (Chorus)
Painting: Saint Jerome by Giovanni Girolam...
published: 18 Feb 2021
Desmarest, Henry (1661-1741) Passacaille (from the Opera "Vénus et Adonis", 1697)
Desmarest, Henry (1661-1741) Passacaille (from the Opera "Vénus et Adonis" , 1697)
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Symp...
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Symphony - Recitative: Dominus regnavit, exultet terra (Chorus)
[03:18] II. Recitative: Nubes et caligo in circuitu ejus (Bass)
[05:09] III. Illuxerunt fulgura ejus orbi terrae (Chorus)
[06:37] IV. Recitative: Montes, sicut cera fluxerunt a facie Domini (Bass)
[07:47] V. Recitative: Annuntiaverunt caeli justitiam ejus (Soprano)
[10:17] VI.Confundantur omnes qui adorant sculptilia (Chorus)
[11:51] VII. Recitative: Adorate eum omnes angeli ejus (Soprano, Chorus)
[16:16] VIII. Recitative: Et exultaverunt filiae Judae propter judicia tua, Domine (Soprano)
[17:44] IX. Recitative: Quoniam tu Dominus altissimus super omnem terram (Counter-tenor)
[18:55] X. Trio: Quis diligitis Dominium, odite malum (Soprano, Bass)
[21:00] XI. Recitative: Lux orta est justo, et rectis corde laetitia (Counter-tenor)
[22:43] XII. Laetamini justi in Domino, et confitermini memoriae (Chorus)
Painting: The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Charles Lebrun. ca. 1670
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Symphony - Recitative: Dominus regnavit, exultet terra (Chorus)
[03:18] II. Recitative: Nubes et caligo in circuitu ejus (Bass)
[05:09] III. Illuxerunt fulgura ejus orbi terrae (Chorus)
[06:37] IV. Recitative: Montes, sicut cera fluxerunt a facie Domini (Bass)
[07:47] V. Recitative: Annuntiaverunt caeli justitiam ejus (Soprano)
[10:17] VI.Confundantur omnes qui adorant sculptilia (Chorus)
[11:51] VII. Recitative: Adorate eum omnes angeli ejus (Soprano, Chorus)
[16:16] VIII. Recitative: Et exultaverunt filiae Judae propter judicia tua, Domine (Soprano)
[17:44] IX. Recitative: Quoniam tu Dominus altissimus super omnem terram (Counter-tenor)
[18:55] X. Trio: Quis diligitis Dominium, odite malum (Soprano, Bass)
[21:00] XI. Recitative: Lux orta est justo, et rectis corde laetitia (Counter-tenor)
[22:43] XII. Laetamini justi in Domino, et confitermini memoriae (Chorus)
Painting: The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Charles Lebrun. ca. 1670
Henry Desmarest. Venus & Adonis. Tragédie lyrique en 1 prologue et 5 actes
* Ouverture
Act 1.
* Lieux écartez
* Vénus vient honorer
* Charmante indifférence
*...
Henry Desmarest. Venus & Adonis. Tragédie lyrique en 1 prologue et 5 actes
* Ouverture
Act 1.
* Lieux écartez
* Vénus vient honorer
* Charmante indifférence
* De nos transports
* Tout rit
* C'est en vain
* Jeunes coeurs
* Premier Passe-pied
* Second Passe-pied pour les hautbois
* Chantons, célébrons les appas
* Vous qui reconnoissez
* Adonis est comblé
* Il te souvient
* Qu'ay-je entendu?
* Reprise du Premier Passe-pied
Act 2
* Hommages importuns
* Je vous voy seul
* Aimons à jamais
* Preus part, chère Cidippe
* Ay-je assez éprouvé
* Ta voix a réveillé mes transports
* Ministres de mes barbaries
* Quittons le séjour des en* fers
* Premier Air pour la Suite de la Jalousie
* Quel plaisir de répandre
Act 3
* Quelle pompe nouvelle
* Je ne puis rien comprendre
* Si je puis avérer
* Premier Air
* Sarabande. Heureux amans
* Tendres prix des âmes constantes
* Connois le prix
* Non ce n'est point
* Mars paroît
* Où sont-ils ces objets
* Ne tardons plus
* Mon âme n'est asservie
* Goûtons un repos plein d'attraits
* Arreste, dieu crédule
* Courons, courons
* Reprise du Premier Air
Act 4
* D'une aveugle fureur
* Par cet éloignement
* Funeste et rigoureuse absence
* C'est tarder trop long-temps
* C'est peu d'une seule victime
* C'en est fait
* Venez, implacable Bellone
* Par mes empressemens
* Servons d'un dieu vangeur
* Premier Air pour la Suite de Bellone
* Second Air pour la Suite de Bellone
* Vangeons-nous de l'amour fatal
* Reprise du Second Air pour la Suite de Bellone
Act 5
* Enfin je vais bien-tost
* Prenez pitié
* Que ces gémissements
* Qu'il est doux
* Ciel! quel effroyable ravage!
* Non, non, rien ne peut m'attendrir
* Ah prince!
* Tout s'unit, tout conspire
* Quand les honneurs du diadême
* Il me fuit
* Passacaille. Adonis a dompté
* Adonis a dompté
* Passacaille
* Qu'un triste éloignement
* Orgueilleuse divinité
* Il est mort!
*Que toute la terre gémisse
- Yu Ree Jang, soprano
- Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano
- Ingrid Perruche, soprano
- Laure Baert, soprano
- Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
- Anders J. Dahlin, tenor
- Sebastian Droy, tenor
- Henk Neven, baritone
- Jean Teitgen, bass
Lorraine National Opera Choir
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Henry Desmarest. Venus & Adonis. Tragédie lyrique en 1 prologue et 5 actes
* Ouverture
Act 1.
* Lieux écartez
* Vénus vient honorer
* Charmante indifférence
* De nos transports
* Tout rit
* C'est en vain
* Jeunes coeurs
* Premier Passe-pied
* Second Passe-pied pour les hautbois
* Chantons, célébrons les appas
* Vous qui reconnoissez
* Adonis est comblé
* Il te souvient
* Qu'ay-je entendu?
* Reprise du Premier Passe-pied
Act 2
* Hommages importuns
* Je vous voy seul
* Aimons à jamais
* Preus part, chère Cidippe
* Ay-je assez éprouvé
* Ta voix a réveillé mes transports
* Ministres de mes barbaries
* Quittons le séjour des en* fers
* Premier Air pour la Suite de la Jalousie
* Quel plaisir de répandre
Act 3
* Quelle pompe nouvelle
* Je ne puis rien comprendre
* Si je puis avérer
* Premier Air
* Sarabande. Heureux amans
* Tendres prix des âmes constantes
* Connois le prix
* Non ce n'est point
* Mars paroît
* Où sont-ils ces objets
* Ne tardons plus
* Mon âme n'est asservie
* Goûtons un repos plein d'attraits
* Arreste, dieu crédule
* Courons, courons
* Reprise du Premier Air
Act 4
* D'une aveugle fureur
* Par cet éloignement
* Funeste et rigoureuse absence
* C'est tarder trop long-temps
* C'est peu d'une seule victime
* C'en est fait
* Venez, implacable Bellone
* Par mes empressemens
* Servons d'un dieu vangeur
* Premier Air pour la Suite de Bellone
* Second Air pour la Suite de Bellone
* Vangeons-nous de l'amour fatal
* Reprise du Second Air pour la Suite de Bellone
Act 5
* Enfin je vais bien-tost
* Prenez pitié
* Que ces gémissements
* Qu'il est doux
* Ciel! quel effroyable ravage!
* Non, non, rien ne peut m'attendrir
* Ah prince!
* Tout s'unit, tout conspire
* Quand les honneurs du diadême
* Il me fuit
* Passacaille. Adonis a dompté
* Adonis a dompté
* Passacaille
* Qu'un triste éloignement
* Orgueilleuse divinité
* Il est mort!
*Que toute la terre gémisse
- Yu Ree Jang, soprano
- Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano
- Ingrid Perruche, soprano
- Laure Baert, soprano
- Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
- Anders J. Dahlin, tenor
- Sebastian Droy, tenor
- Henk Neven, baritone
- Jean Teitgen, bass
Lorraine National Opera Choir
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Reci...
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Recitative and Chorus De profundis clamavi ad te (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[03:44] II. Recitative and Chorus Fiant aures tuae intendentes (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[05:30] III. Duet Si iniquitates observaveris (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[08:24] IV. Recitative Quia apud te propitiatio sat (Tenor)
[10:29] V. Recitative Sustinuit anima mea (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[12:21] VI. Duet A custodia matutina (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[14:27] VII. Recitative Quia apud Dominum (Tenor)
[16:23] VIII. Recitative Et ipse redimet (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[18:27] IX. Requiem aeternam (Chorus)
[21:43] X. Et lux perpetua (Chorus)
Painting: Saint Jerome by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo. ca. 1525-30
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Recitative and Chorus De profundis clamavi ad te (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[03:44] II. Recitative and Chorus Fiant aures tuae intendentes (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[05:30] III. Duet Si iniquitates observaveris (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[08:24] IV. Recitative Quia apud te propitiatio sat (Tenor)
[10:29] V. Recitative Sustinuit anima mea (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[12:21] VI. Duet A custodia matutina (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[14:27] VII. Recitative Quia apud Dominum (Tenor)
[16:23] VIII. Recitative Et ipse redimet (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[18:27] IX. Requiem aeternam (Chorus)
[21:43] X. Et lux perpetua (Chorus)
Painting: Saint Jerome by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo. ca. 1525-30
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Symphony - Recitative: Dominus regnavit, exultet terra (Chorus)
[03:18] II. Recitative: Nubes et caligo in circuitu ejus (Bass)
[05:09] III. Illuxerunt fulgura ejus orbi terrae (Chorus)
[06:37] IV. Recitative: Montes, sicut cera fluxerunt a facie Domini (Bass)
[07:47] V. Recitative: Annuntiaverunt caeli justitiam ejus (Soprano)
[10:17] VI.Confundantur omnes qui adorant sculptilia (Chorus)
[11:51] VII. Recitative: Adorate eum omnes angeli ejus (Soprano, Chorus)
[16:16] VIII. Recitative: Et exultaverunt filiae Judae propter judicia tua, Domine (Soprano)
[17:44] IX. Recitative: Quoniam tu Dominus altissimus super omnem terram (Counter-tenor)
[18:55] X. Trio: Quis diligitis Dominium, odite malum (Soprano, Bass)
[21:00] XI. Recitative: Lux orta est justo, et rectis corde laetitia (Counter-tenor)
[22:43] XII. Laetamini justi in Domino, et confitermini memoriae (Chorus)
Painting: The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Charles Lebrun. ca. 1670
Henry Desmarest. Venus & Adonis. Tragédie lyrique en 1 prologue et 5 actes
* Ouverture
Act 1.
* Lieux écartez
* Vénus vient honorer
* Charmante indifférence
* De nos transports
* Tout rit
* C'est en vain
* Jeunes coeurs
* Premier Passe-pied
* Second Passe-pied pour les hautbois
* Chantons, célébrons les appas
* Vous qui reconnoissez
* Adonis est comblé
* Il te souvient
* Qu'ay-je entendu?
* Reprise du Premier Passe-pied
Act 2
* Hommages importuns
* Je vous voy seul
* Aimons à jamais
* Preus part, chère Cidippe
* Ay-je assez éprouvé
* Ta voix a réveillé mes transports
* Ministres de mes barbaries
* Quittons le séjour des en* fers
* Premier Air pour la Suite de la Jalousie
* Quel plaisir de répandre
Act 3
* Quelle pompe nouvelle
* Je ne puis rien comprendre
* Si je puis avérer
* Premier Air
* Sarabande. Heureux amans
* Tendres prix des âmes constantes
* Connois le prix
* Non ce n'est point
* Mars paroît
* Où sont-ils ces objets
* Ne tardons plus
* Mon âme n'est asservie
* Goûtons un repos plein d'attraits
* Arreste, dieu crédule
* Courons, courons
* Reprise du Premier Air
Act 4
* D'une aveugle fureur
* Par cet éloignement
* Funeste et rigoureuse absence
* C'est tarder trop long-temps
* C'est peu d'une seule victime
* C'en est fait
* Venez, implacable Bellone
* Par mes empressemens
* Servons d'un dieu vangeur
* Premier Air pour la Suite de Bellone
* Second Air pour la Suite de Bellone
* Vangeons-nous de l'amour fatal
* Reprise du Second Air pour la Suite de Bellone
Act 5
* Enfin je vais bien-tost
* Prenez pitié
* Que ces gémissements
* Qu'il est doux
* Ciel! quel effroyable ravage!
* Non, non, rien ne peut m'attendrir
* Ah prince!
* Tout s'unit, tout conspire
* Quand les honneurs du diadême
* Il me fuit
* Passacaille. Adonis a dompté
* Adonis a dompté
* Passacaille
* Qu'un triste éloignement
* Orgueilleuse divinité
* Il est mort!
*Que toute la terre gémisse
- Yu Ree Jang, soprano
- Anna Maria Panzarella, soprano
- Ingrid Perruche, soprano
- Laure Baert, soprano
- Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
- Anders J. Dahlin, tenor
- Sebastian Droy, tenor
- Henk Neven, baritone
- Jean Teitgen, bass
Lorraine National Opera Choir
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
Hanna Bayodi, soprano
Sebastian Droy, tenor
Stephanie Revidat, soprano
Francois-Nicolas Geslot, haute-contre
[00:00] I. Recitative and Chorus De profundis clamavi ad te (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[03:44] II. Recitative and Chorus Fiant aures tuae intendentes (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[05:30] III. Duet Si iniquitates observaveris (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[08:24] IV. Recitative Quia apud te propitiatio sat (Tenor)
[10:29] V. Recitative Sustinuit anima mea (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[12:21] VI. Duet A custodia matutina (Soprano 1, Soprano 2)
[14:27] VII. Recitative Quia apud Dominum (Tenor)
[16:23] VIII. Recitative Et ipse redimet (Haute-Contre, Chorus)
[18:27] IX. Requiem aeternam (Chorus)
[21:43] X. Et lux perpetua (Chorus)
Painting: Saint Jerome by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo. ca. 1525-30
Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works.
Biography
Early years and first successes
Henri Desmarets was born into a modest Paris household in February 1661. His mother, Madeleine née Frottier, came from a bourgeois Parisian family. His father, Hugues Desmarets was a huissier in the cavalry at the Grand Châtelet. Desmarets' childhood was marked by his father's death when he was eight years old, his mother's subsequent re-marriage in 1670, and the death of his two siblings. In 1674, he entered into the service of King Louis XIV as a page and choir singer in the Chapelle Royale (Chapel Royal). According to Duron and Ferraton, he may have also previously sung as a choir boy in Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois which was the parish church of the kings of France. While in the service of the king, he received a general education as well as music training from Pierre Robert and Henry Du Mont. He is also thought to have received training from the court composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, who used the chapel pages as performers in his operas. By 1680 he had become an "ordinaire de la musique du roi" (court musician) and had composed the first of his grand motets (Te Deum 1678). The idyll-ballet which he composed in August 1682 to celebrate the birth of the king's grandson, the Duke of Burgundy found great favour at court and the following year he entered the competition to select four maîtres (masters) of the Chapelle Royale. He was only 22 at the time and according to some accounts, the King had vetoed his selection after he had passed the first round on account of his youth.