Hervé Niquet likes to say that recording is a source of stress and sometimes tension: “None of that was the case here,” he continues. He has been performing this Couperin/de Lalande program Leçons de Ténèbres (Lessons of Darkness) & Miserere with the female singers of Le Concert Spirituel for over ten years: ”

The seven singers know every nook and cranny of these highly complex scores. So it was time to record this testimony to ten years of work. (…) I like the parallel between the singers of Le Concert Spirituel and the nuns who sing these lamentations every year throughout their lives in their monastery.”

Hervé Niquet, Conductor
Le Concert Spirituel