Joseph est bien marié - Noëls Baroques à Versailles - Gaétan Jarry

NOËLS BAROQUES À VERSAILLES
GREAT ORGAN 1710
ROYAL CHAPEL OF VERSAILLES
N°3 Golden Age of French Organ Collection
Gaétan Jarry, organ et direction
The Choir of the Pages du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Claude Balbastre (1724-1799)
Michel Corrette (1707-1795)
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738)
Pierre Dandrieu (1664-1733)
Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
Christmas time would make sacred music shined forth in monarchical France. The organists had free rein to improvise on the popular Nativity songs, which had been known to all the faithful for centuries, and amateurs would swarm to churches throughout Paris to hear the virtuoso works of these masters! Here, finally gathered together, are the most famous organ pieces of Daquin, Corette, Dandrieu and Balbastre along with the melodies that inspired them, played by the skilled fingers of Gaétan Jarry at the Grand Orgue of the Royal Chapel of Versailles, accompanied by the children’s choir (the Pages) of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, just as the children used to at the Chapel during the reign of Louis XIV!
Recorded on June 2019 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles.