Hervé Niquet & Le Concert Spirituel : EML 19 November

[doversoul1]

Hervé Niquet directs Le Concert Spirituel in Orazio Benevoli's Missa Si Deus pro nobis and Magnificat a 16, in a concert given at this year's Radio France and Montpellier Festival.
Introduced by Simon Heighes.

Benevoli: Missa Si Deus pro nobis
Benevoli: Magnificat a 16

Le Concert Spirituel Chorus and Orchestra
Hervé Niquet (conductor)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09fmkh8

Orazio Benevoli 1605 – 1672
A new name to me.

[doversoul1]

I can’t comment on the quality of the music but it sounded pretty impressive.

[ardcarp]

I heard the Benevoli Mass on the car radio driving home late. Much motorway noise, so didn't hear the finer points...but it was harmonically and melodically just a wee bit, well, boring. Probably not fair to judge it thus.Will try again, if time.

[MickyD]

I have the Naxos CD that Niquet made some time ago of Benevolo, and I seem to recall that I formed the same opinion of the music as Ardcarp.