FRANÇOIS D'AGINCOUR
FESTE DE PENTECOSTE AU COUVENT DES VISITANDINES

01 Procession
02 Prélude
03 Introïtus
04 Postlude
05 Kyrie
06 Gloria
07 Séquence
08 Offertoire
09 Sanctus
10 Elévation
11 Agnus Dei
12 Communion
13 Domine Salvum Fac Regem
14 Litanies àla Vierge
15 Magnificat
15 Benedicamus Domino

The first volume of the complete works of François d’Agincour is appealing in many ways: the originality and beauty of the music –never before published or recorded– together with Hervé Niquet’s celebrated performance, combined with the evocative voices of Les Dames de St Jean, who bring us plainchant from Nivers, and the amazing sound of an organ built by Tribuot, royal organist, equipped with a whole range of subtle musical nuances in addition to raw power, all of which have been captured by the world’s foremost expert in the field of historical organ recordings, the Belgian sound engineer Manuel Mohino. The CD wouldn’t be complete without the informative liner notes written by Jean-Yves Patte describing the fascinating reconstruction that Niquet makes of a religious celebration at a Salesian convent, thus providing the perfect context for d’Agincour’s 46 surviving organ pieces.