Miserere
Allegri, Hersant, Scarlatti

Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 8:30 PM

Estimated Run Time: 1 hour 10 minutes

Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries, the “early Baroque” period, known as the famous Seicento, introduced a modernity into musical practices that marked the birth of solo singing and opera. However, the great masters did not abandon the polyphony inherited from the Renaissance: on the contrary, they embraced it and revived it with a poetic language of new intensity.
Following in the footsteps of Monteverdi, the great precursor, composers produced highly contrapuntal and expressive works: Antonio Lotti and his Crucifixus for eight voices, Domenico Scarlatti and his Stabat Mater for ten voices. The most universally known work remains Gregorio Allegri's Miserere: legend has it that, aware of its incomparable beauty, the Vatican formally prohibited any copying of the score in order to retain exclusive use of it.
As a great connoisseur of early music, Philippe Hersant pays tribute to these masterpieces with Aus Tiefer Not, which uses the German translation of the hymn De profundis.

Photo by ©MC Bertin

Program

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Adoramus te
Salve Regina secondo

Antonio Lotti (1667-1740)
Crucifixus

Philippe Hersant (*1948)
Aus Tiefer Not

Gregorio Allegri (1582-1652)
Miserere

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Stabat Mater

Cast

Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris
Lucile Boulanger, viola da gamba
Yves Castagnet, organ
Henri Chalet, conductor