La descente d’Orphée aux enfers (1686) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier fits the ensem­ble Correspondances like a glove: in this seduc­tive cham­ber opera, trans­paren­cy and expres­sion go hand in hand. Charpentier’s Motet pour les tré­passés and frag­ments from Purcell’s Cecilia ode Welcome to All the Pleasures take the musi­cians from pur­ga­to­ry to paradise.

Orphée aux Enfers

Charpentier & Purcell

  • : Ensemble Correspondances (FR)
  • Muzikale leiding: Sébastien Daucé (FR)
  • Orphée: David Tricou (FR)