Passions Les Cris de Paris & Geoffroy Jourdain

• Tarquinio Merula (1595 - 1665):
• 1 Hor ch'è tempo di dormire 09:11
• Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643):
• 2 Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252 - 288: Crucifixus a 4, SV 259 03:33
• 3 Orfeo, SV 318, Atto II: Sinfonia 01:28
• Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676):
• 4 Salve Regina 06:41
• Giovanni Legrenzi (1626 - 1690):
• 5 La cetra, Sonata a Quattro No. 6, Op. 10: Adagio 02:28
• Antonio Lotti (1667 - 1740):
• 6 Duetti, terzetti e madrigali a più voci,‏ Op. 1: In una siepe ombrosa 07:23
• 7 Crucifixus a 10 02:40
• Claudio Monteverdi:
• 8 Ballo delle ingrate, SV 167: Entrata 05:21
• Giovanni Legrenzi:
• 9 Harmonia d'affetti devoti, libro primo, Op. 3: Dialogo delle due Marie 05:28
• Antonio Lotti:
• 10 Crucifixus a 8 02:59
• Claudio Monteverdi:
• 11 Cantate domino, SV 292 (arr. for instruments) 02:26
• 12 Adoramus te Christe, SV 289 05:10
• Antonio Lotti:
• 13 Crucifixus a 6 02:21
• Claudio Monteverdi:
• 14 Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252 - 288: Chi vol che m'innamori, SV 256. Ritornello 01:42
• Antonio Caldara (1670 - 1736):
• 15 Crucifixus a 16 04:25
• Giovanni Gabrieli (1557 - 1612):
• 16 Exaudi me Domine 06:00
• Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663):
• 17 Sinfonia sesto tuono, Op. 22 01:40
• 18 Balletto secondo Pretirata, Op. 22 [1] 00:56
• Claudio Monteverdi:
• 19 Selva morale e spirituale, SV 252 - 288: È questa vita un lampo, SV 254 02:29
• Biagio Marini:
• 20 Balletto secondo Pretirata, Op. 22 [2] 01:23
• Total Runtime 01:15:44

Info for Passions

Alternating between transcendental secular music and theatrical sacred music, this latest recording from Geoffroy Jourdain invites us to explore the many expressions of human passion. Built around several settings of the Crucifixus (including Antonio Lotti's extraordinarily intense versions), Les Cris de Paris urge us to walk the Via Dolorosa to the very heart of Venetian Baroque music.

Les Cris de Paris
Geoffroy Jourdain, direction

Geoffroy Jourdain
While he was studying musicology at the Sorbonne University and doing researches in the Italian musical collections of several European librarys, Geoffroy Jourdain got involved very soon in conducting vocal ensembles and founded Les Cris de Paris. The ensemble became quickly renowned for the audacity of its artistic project and for its commitment to defend contemporary creation.

Geoffroy Jourdain is interested in finding ways to create innovative musical performances, by working with stage directors, actors, choreographers and plastic artists. With the stage director Benjamin Lazar, he creates many shapes of lyrical shows and musical theatre.

He is invited by the Atelier lyrique de l’Opéra de Paris in order to conduct lyrical works (Orphée et Eurydice and Iphigénie en Tauride by Gluck, L’Orfeo by Monteverdi), and also by ensembles like the Capella Amsterdam, the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra Choir or the orchestra Les Siècles entrusted by François-Xavier Roth (Israel in Egypt by Handel)…

Geoffroy Jourdain commissioned and created works by Beat Furrer, Mauro Lanza, Marco Stroppa, Francesco Filidei, Oscar Strasnoy (including the opera Cachafaz), Ivan Fedele, and is also passionate about 17h and 18th centuries repertoire and about ethnomusicology. His curiosity about varied repertoires and the originality of its approach led him to perform at the Opéra Comique, the IRCAM, the Cité de la Musique, the Présence festival of Radio France or at the Venice Biennale, to be invited in residence at the Fondation Royaumont, at the Opéra de Reims, to be a major artist of the Beaune festival and of the Chaise-Dieu festival.

With Olivier Michel, managing director of Les Cris de Paris, he is co-director of La Pop, a barge that performs musical theatre in Paris, since March 2015.

Les Cris de Paris
Founded and imagined by Geoffroy Jourdain, Les Cris de Paris performs mainly the vocal and instrumental repertoire from the beginning of the 16th century to nowadays.

Their artistic approach reflects the richness and diversity of the paths of the artists who participate to their productions. They can be three as well as eighty, with among them composers, arrangers, actors, stage directors, instrumentalists, dancers, ensembles or choirs directors, plastic artists, sound designers, pedagogues…

Curious and passionate, they commit with audacity to rediscovering unknown works or to explore the voice potentiality in the contemporary creation.

Their musical projects may take the shape of concerts, performances, but also stage productions that involve many artistic disciplines (theatre, dance, reading…).

Most of the creations that punctuate the cultural seasons of Les Cris de Paris combine contemporary music with ancient music, modern music with baroque and romantic music…

Booklet for Passions