Lucile Richardot, Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé ‎– Perpetual Night / 17th Century Ayres And Songs

Recordings of the English 17th-century consort song repertory have overwhelmingly come from English musicians, but this French release from mezzo soprano Lucile Richardot and Ensemble Correspondances under Sébastien Daucé provides strong competition for others on the market. In a way this is unsurprising, for this English repertory reflected both French and Italian influences, the latter evidenced by the presence of the composer John Coprario (d. 1626), who was born plain John Cooper but adopted an Italian name for marketing purposes. There is nothing in Richardot's singing to identify her as anything other than a native English speaker, and the delicate singing in the multi-part pieces is a real pleasure. You don't get to hear the bass voice much in this music, so check out the work of Nicolas Brooymans in Robert Ramsey's Howl not, you ghosts and furies.

Conductor, Organ, Virginal – Sébastien Daucé
Cover [Couverture Du Livret] – Anthonis van Dyck*
Engineer [Alban Moraud Assisté] – Alexandra Evrard
Engineer [Pris De Son], Recording Supervisor [Direction Artistique] – Alban Moraud
Engineer [Réalisation] – Alban Moraud
Ensemble – Ensemble Correspondances
Executive-Producer [Production Exécutive Correspondances] – Solweig Barbier
Executive-Producer [Production Exécutive Harmonia Mundi] – Christian Girardin
Executive-Producer [Production Exécutive] – Céline Portes, Jonathan Foraison
Liner Notes – Peter Holman, Sébastien Daucé
Liner Notes [Traduction] – Christopher Bayton
Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Lucile Richardot (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 16, 18 to 20)
Photography By [Booklet Cover] – Erich Lessing, akg-images
Photography By [Photos] – Igor Studio
Post Production – Alban Moraud, Alexandra Evrard, Aude Besnard