Goudimel: Psalms

Psaumes de la Réforme
Claude Goudimel / Paschal de l'Estoquart / Jan Sweelinck
Ensemble Claude Goudimel - Christine Morel
Naxos 8.553025

Contents:

  1. Goudimel: Psalm 128 - Bienheureux est quiconque
  2. Goudimel: Psalm 13 - Jusques as quand as establi
  3. Goudimel: Psalm 104 - Sus, sus mon âme il te faut dire bien
  4. Goudimel: Psalm 163 - Seigneur Dieu, oy l'oraison mienne
  5. Goudimel: Psalm 115 - Non point à nous
  6. Goudimel: Psalm 114 - Quand Israël hors d'Egypte sortit
  7. Goudimel: Psalm 137 - Estans assis aux rives aquatiques
  8. Goudimel: Psalm 130 - Du fond de ma pensée
  9. Goudimel: Psalm 128 - Bienheureux est quiconque
  10. Goudimel: Psalm 104 - Sus, sus mon âme il te faut dire bien
  11. Estoquart: Psalm 25 - A toy mon Dieu mon coeur monte
  12. Estoquart: Psalm 33 - Resveillez-vous chacun fidèle
  13. Sweelinck: Psalm 107 - Donnez au Seigneur gloyre
  14. Goudimel: Par le désert de mes peines
  15. Goudimel: Cantique de Siméon

Performers: Christine Morel, Evelyne Brun, Sylvette Claudot, Laurent Mitsakis, Jean Yves Sidoit, Vincent Lecornier

Playing time: 49'

Recording date: April 1994

All of the psalm texts were taken from the translation of Clément Marot, in other words the Huguenot Psalter. This includes the Cantique de Siméon which is the only New Testament text in Marot's publication. Par le désert de mes peines is one of Goudimel's Cantiques Spirituels, with a text by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu. The psalms settings are of varying musical complexity.

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Along with Claude Goudimel (1520-1572), the present recording also includes music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) and Paschal de l'Estochart (c.1540-1591). A recording devoted to Sweelinck:

Sweelinck: Chorals and psalms (1604)
Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius - Michel Laplénie
Tempéraments 316006

Besides those represented here, other prominent composers of the period (such as Le Jeune) also contributed to the short-lived French psalm output.

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Todd M. McComb