Le Cœur et la Raison La Néréide

• Du Parc: Je ne sais pas ce que je sens:
• 1 Parc: Je ne sais pas ce que je sens 02:49
• Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676 - 1749): Miserere mei Deus, C. 116:
• 2 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: I. Miserere mei Deus 03:18
• 3 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: II. Quoniam in iniquitatem meam 02:54
• 4 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: III. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus 01:51
• 5 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: IV. Asperges me hyssopo 04:00
• 6 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: V. Averte faciem tuam 02:57
• 7 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: VI. Docebo iniquos vias tuas 01:44
• 8 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: VII. Libera me 03:25
• 9 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: VIII. Sacrificium Deo 02:56
• 10 Clérambault: Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: IX. Tunc acceptabis 02:06
• Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687): L'âme contente dans sa solitude:
• 11 Lully: L'âme contente dans sa solitude 02:55
• Joseph Chabanceau de la Barre (1633 - 1678): Quand une âme est bien atteinte:
• 12 Barre: Quand une âme est bien atteinte 04:22
• Michel Lambert (1610 - 1696): J'aime, je suis aimée:
• 13 Lambert: J'aime, je suis aimée 03:31
• Jean-François Lalouette (1651 - 1728): Miserere:
• 14 Lalouette: Miserere: I. Miserere mei Deus 04:12
• 15 Lalouette: Miserere: II. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus 04:33
• 16 Lalouette: Miserere: III. Averte faciem tuam 03:11
• 17 Lalouette: Miserere: IV. Docebo iniquos vias tua 01:34
• 18 Lalouette: Miserere: V. Libera me 01:46
• 19 Lalouette: Miserere: VI. Domine labia mea aperies 00:54
• 20 Lalouette: Miserere: VII. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium 01:07
• 21 Lalouette: Miserere: VIII. Sacrificium Deo 01:57
• 22 Lalouette: Miserere: IX. Benigne fac Domine 00:32
• 23 Lalouette: Miserere: X. Tunc acceptabis 02:06
• Honoré d’Ambruis (ca. 1660 - ca. 1702): Lorsqu'avec une ardeur extrême:
• 24 d’Ambruis: Lorsqu'avec une ardeur extrême 03:48
• Michel Lambert: Le pénitent dans le désert:
• 25 Lambert: Le pénitent dans le désert 03:20
• Sébastien Le Camus (ca. 1610 - 1677): Je m'abandonne à vous:
• 26 Camus: Je m'abandonne à vous 03:42
• Michel Lambert: Laisse-moi soupirer, importune raison:
• 27 Lambert: Laisse-moi soupirer, importune raison 03:29
• Total Runtime 01:14:59

Info for Le Cœur et la Raison

Since the creation of their ensemble La Néréide in 2019, the three sopranos Camille Allérat, Julie Roset and Ana Vieira Leite have wanted to tell stories about women, women who are courageous, vulnerable, passionate, powerful, secretive — and sometimes all of these at once. Le Cœur et la Raison imagines the fate of a young noblewoman sent to the Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr, where she received a meticulous education, particularly in music; she took part in services and sang works by its organist Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749) — including his magnificent Miserere — and by Jean-François Lalouette (1651-1728), a pupil of Lully. When she returned to her family, however, she sang the melodies of fashionable court airs, which she then shared with her fellow students at Saint-Cyr, to the great disapproval of the religious authorities. She and her colleagues then rewrote the song texts transforming the declarations of love into statements of faith. Today, these three friends and artists present an emotionally charged programme, accompanied by a first-rate instrumental trio.

La Nereide

La Nereide
was created in 2019 to showcase repertoire for equal voices by sopranos, Julie Roset, Camille Allérat and Ana Vieira Leite and has since been acclaimed for their ​“impressive expertise, impeccable balance and accuracy” (Olyrix)

Their debut album, Luzzaschi: Il Concerto Segreto, released on Ricercar in September 2023, was described as ​‘superb’ (Gramaphone) and was nominated for a Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. The album presents an all-Italian programme including works by the resident composer in 16th century court of Ferrara, Luzzasco Luzzaschi, alongside works by Francesca Caccini, Claudio Monteverdi and Luca Marenzio. La Néréide’s first recording recreates the original conditions in which the works would have been performed, with the accompaniment of harpsichord, viola, harp and luth, and they performed the programme to huge acclaim in Paris, Dijon, Tourcoing, Namur, Ambronay, Regensburg, Póvoa de Varzim, Bremen, Brussels and Utrecht.

This season, La Néréide release their second album, Le coeur et la raison, on Alpha Classics — a showcase of motets and vocal trios by Lully and Lalouette accompanied by original forces; organ, viola de gamba and archlute. They present Le coeur et la raison live in Avignon, Froville and Saint-Michel-en-Thiérache.

Additional projects include A Chloris, a programme of Rameau, Fauré and Piaff which they performed in a local tour with Holland Baroque Society, and Les petites filles sages - an a cappella programme with music by Caplet, Poulenc and Duruflé, presented at Kiosque Pulsations Bordeaux and upcoming in Saint-Denis and Bar-Le-Duc.

The trio connected while studying at Haute École de musique de Genève and chose the name La Néréide as a reference to the mythical water sirens, les Néréides, keeping the singular form to represent their unity as an ensemble.

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