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Stage Works
134 tracks
- David et Jonathas, tragédie en musique, H.490
39 tracks
- La descente d'Orphée aux Enfers, opera, H.488
26 tracks
- Médée, opera, H.491
45 tracks
- Actéon, Scène cinquième: Choeur des Chasseurs
1 track
- Le Malade imaginaire, opera, H.495
23 tracks
- David et Jonathas, tragédie en musique, H.490
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Orchestral Works
13 tracks
- Marche de triomphe, for instruments, H. 547
5 tracks
- Messe pour plusieurs instruments au lieu des orgues, for orchestra, H.513
4 tracks
- Ouverture pour le sacre d'un eveque, H.536
1 track
- Musique de théâtre pour 'Andromède', H.504
1 track
- Musique de théâtre pour 'Circé', H.496
1 track
- Sonate à huit, H.548
1 track
- Marche de triomphe, for instruments, H. 547
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Chamber Works
50 tracks
- Antienne, for 2 flutes, strings and continuo, H.526
1 track
- Bruit de trompettes
1 track
- Caprice por trois violons, for 2 violins and bass viol, H.542
1 track
- Concert pour quatre parties des violes, for strings, H.545
10 tracks
- Fanfare à deux trompettes
2 tracks
- Menuet et Autre menuet, for 2 flutes and bass viol, H.541
1 track
- 3 Noëls, for 2 flutes, recorders, and continuo, H.531
13 tracks
- Offerte non encore exécutée, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, strings and bassoon, H.522
1 track
- Offerte pour l'orgue, for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, strings and continuo, H.514
1 track
- Ouverture poue l'église, for strings and continuo, H.524
1 track
- Ouverture pour le sacre d'un évêque, for 2 flutes, oboe, strings and continuo, H.537
1 track
- Pour un reposoir, for 3 flutes, strings and continuo, H.523
1 track
- Pour un reposoir, for strings, H.508
5 tracks
- Prélude pour le Te Deum à 8, for strings, H.145a
3 tracks
- Suite en ré mineur, for chamber ensemble
2 tracks
- Symphonies pour un reposoir, for strings and continuo, H.515
4 tracks
- Le Malade imaginaire: Troisième intermède, Air des révérences
1 track
- Second air pour les le tapisseurs, for strings, H.495b (Malade imaginaire)
1 track
- Antienne, for 2 flutes, strings and continuo, H.526
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Vocal Works
780 tracks
- Masses, H.1-11
187 tracks
- Assumpta est Maria, mass for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra and continuo, H.11
39 tracks
- Messe 'Kyrie eleison,' for voices, instruments and continuo, H.1
9 tracks
- Messe de minuit pour Noël, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, H.9
50 tracks
- Messe des morts, for 5 voices, chorus, instruments and continuo, H.10
13 tracks
- Messe des morts, for 6 voices, chorus and continuo, H.7
7 tracks
- Messe Pour le Port Royal, for 3 sopranos, chorus and continuo, H.5
11 tracks
- Messe à 8 voix et 8 violons et flûtes, for 8 voices, chorus, 2 flutes, strings and continuo, H.3
50 tracks
- Messe à quatre choeurs, for 12 voices, quadruple chorus, strings and continuo, H.4
7 tracks
- Messe pour Monsieur de Mauroy, for 6 voices, chorus, instruments and continuo, H.6
1 track
- Assumpta est Maria, mass for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra and continuo, H.11
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Motets, H.115, 119, 145-148, 233-390, 426-439
217 tracks
- Canticum in nativitatem Domini, Christmas, for 2 sopranos, bass, 2 treble strings and continuo, H.393
2 tracks
- Canticum Zachariae, for 5 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.345
1 track
- Chant joyeux du temps de Pâques, for 6 voices, chorus, strings and contiunuo, H.339
2 tracks
- Conserva me Domine, for 4 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.230
4 tracks
- Desolatione desolata est terra, for 3 voices and continuo, H.380 (Méditations pour le Carême)
1 track
- Dilecte mi, for 3 voices and continuo, H.436
1 track
- Domine salvum fac regem, for 5 voices, double chorus, strings and continuo, H.283
1 track
- Domine salvum, for 4 voices, double chorus, strings and continuo, H.291
2 tracks
- Domine salvum, for 4 voices, H.290
1 track
- Domine salvum, for chorus, strings and continuo, H.303
1 track
- Domine salvum, H.299
1 track
- Dominus illuminatio mea, for 5 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.229
1 track
- Elevation, 'O pretiosum', H.245
1 track
- Eram quasi agnus, cinquième répons après la deuxième leçon du second nocturne, for high soprano and continuo, H.115
1 track
- Gaudete fideles, H.306
1 track
- Gratiarum actiones pro restituta regis christianissimi sanitate anno 1686, 'Circumdederunt me dolores', H.341
1 track
- In circumcisione Domini, for 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.316
1 track
- In festo purificationis, 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.318
1 track
- In honorem S. Ludovici, motet for 6 voices, chorus, orchestra and continuo, H.365
26 tracks
- In nativitatem Domini canticum, Christmas for soprano, countertenor, tenor, bass, 2 flutes, 2 violins and continuo, H.314
4 tracks
- In te Domine speravi, for 5 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.228
1 track
- La prière à la Vierge du Père Bernard, for 3 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.367
1 track
- Motet pour les trépassés, for 5 voices, chorus, strings, and continuo, H.311
8 tracks
- Méditations pour le carême, 10 motets for 3 voices and continuo, H.380-89
1 track
- O Juda, o Juda, neuvième répons après la troisième leçon du troisième nocturne, for 2 voices and continuo, H.119
1 track
- O salutaris à 3 dessus, motet for 3 voices and continuo, H.261
1 track
- Panis quem ego dabo, for 5 voices, 2 flutes and continuo, H. 275
1 track
- Pour plusieurs martyrs, for bass, H.361
1 track
- Pour Sainte Thérèse, motet for 3 voices and continuo, H.342
1 track
- Pro omnibus festis B.V.M., for 6 voices, chorus, instruments and continuo, H.333
4 tracks
- Pulchra est et decora, for 3 voices and continuo, H.52 (Antiennes por le vêpres)
1 track
- Quatuor anni tempestates, 4 motets for 2 voices and continuo, H.335-338
4 tracks
- Sicut pullus hirundinis, for 3 voices and continuo, H.381 (Méditations pour le Carême)
1 track
- Sola vivebat in antris, for 3 voices and continuo, H.388 (Méditations pour le Carême)
1 track
- Stabat mater pour des réligieuses, motet for soprano, chorus and continuo, H.15
1 track
- Stabat mater, for 3 voices and continuo, H.387 (Méditations pour le Carême)
1 track
- Te Deum à 4, for 5 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.147
3 tracks
- Te Deum, for 8 voices, chorus, and orchestra, H.145
15 tracks
- Te Deum, for 8 voices, chorus, and orchestra, H.146
92 tracks
- Tenebrae factae sunt, for 3 voices and continuo, H.386 (Méditations pour le Carême)
1 track
- Transfige dulcissime Jesu, for 5 voices and continuo, H.251
4 tracks
- Miserere mei Deus, motet for 5 voices, chorus, 2 flutes, strings and continuo, H.219
7 tracks
- O Deus, o salvator noster, motet for 3 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.372
1 track
- Pour le Saint Sacrement au reposoir, motet for voices, chorus, 2 flutes and continuo, H.346
1 track
- Motet pour une longue offrande, for 5 voices, chorus, instruments and contiuo, H.434
4 tracks
- Troisième leçon de ténèbres du mercredi saint, motet for 2 voices and continuo, H.98 (Neuf leçons)
1 track
- Super flumina Babylonis, motet for 8 voices, double chorus, strings and continuo, H.171
5 tracks
- Canticum in nativitatem Domini, Christmas, for 2 sopranos, bass, 2 treble strings and continuo, H.393
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Antiphons, H.16-52
34 tracks
- Marian antiphon cycle for the church year, for 3 or 4 voices, 2 violins and continuo, H.44-47
4 tracks
- Regina coeli, for 3 voices and continuo, H.30
1 track
- Salve Regina à 3 choeurs, for for 3 choruses and continuo, H.24
8 tracks
- Salve Regina à trois voix pareilles, for 3 voices and continuo, H.23
2 tracks
- O clavis David, motet for 3 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.40
1 track
- Grandes Antiennes O de l'Avent, H.36-43
18 tracks
- Marian antiphon cycle for the church year, for 3 or 4 voices, 2 violins and continuo, H.44-47
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Psalms, H.149-232
49 tracks
- Beatus vir qui timet Dominum, for 3 voices, chorus and continuo, H.221
2 tracks
- Confitebor tibi Domine, for 3 voices, chorus and continuo, H.220
1 track
- Deus judicium tuum regi da, psalm for 3 voices, instruments and continuo, H.166
1 track
- Dixit Dominus, Pour le Port Royal, for 3 high sopranos and continuo, H.226
5 tracks
- Dixit Dominus, psalm for 4 voices, chorus and orchestra, H.204
1 track
- Laetatus sum, psalm for 3 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.216
1 track
- Lauda Jerusalem, for 4 voices, choruses, strings and continuo, H.210
1 track
- Laudate Dominum omnes gentes, psalm for 4 voices, H.182
1 track
- Laudate pueri Dominum, for 5 voices, chorus and continuo, H.203
1 track
- Laudate pueri Dominum, for 5 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.149
2 tracks
- Miserere des Jésuites, psalm for 5 voices, chorus, strings, and continuo, H.193
5 tracks
- Nisi Dominus, for 4 voices, chorus and continuo, H.160
2 tracks
- Nisi Dominus, for 4 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.150
1 track
- Nisi Dominus, psalm for 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.231
1 track
- Notus in Judea Deus, psalm for 3 voices, chorus, instruments and continuo, H.206
13 tracks
- Quemadmodum desiderat cervus, psalm for 5 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.174
1 track
- Psalm 87, H.207, Domine Deus salutis meae
3 tracks
- De profundis, motet for 7 voices, chorus, instruments and continuo, H.189
7 tracks
- Beatus vir qui timet Dominum, for 3 voices, chorus and continuo, H.221
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Other Choral Works: Litanies, Magnificats, Oratorios, Responsories, Hymns, Tenebrae lessons
278 tracks
- Ave maris stella, hymn for 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.60
1 track
- Ave maris stella, motet for 2 sopranos and continuo, H. 63
1 track
- Canticum in nativitatem Domini, H.393
2 tracks
- Chaconne, for soprano and continuo
1 track
- Dialogus inter angelos et pastores, histoire sacrée (oratorio) for 4 voices, chorus, 2 flutes, strings and continuo, H.420
3 tracks
- Extremum Dei judicium, histoire sacrée, for 6 voices, 2 treble instruments, 2 trumpets and continuo, H.401
8 tracks
- In circumcisione Domini, histoire sacrée for 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.406
5 tracks
- In honorem Sancti Ludovici Regis Galliæ, histoire sacrée for 3 voices, orchestra and continuo, H.418
12 tracks
- In nativitate Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum, histoire sacrée for 3 voices and continuo, H. 421
1 track
- In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum, histoire sacrée (oratorio) for 3 voices, chorus, orchestra, and continuo, H. 416
18 tracks
- In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Canticum, histoire sacrée (oratorio) for 4 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.414
11 tracks
- La Couronne de fleurs, pastorale for 8 voices, chorus, 2 treble viols and continuo, H.486
2 tracks
- Le reniement de St. Pierre, occasional motet (oratorio) for 5 voices, chorus, and continuo, H.424
8 tracks
- Litanies de la Vierge à 2 dessus et une basse chantant, for 3 voices and continuo, H.86
2 tracks
- Litanies de la Vierge, for 4 voices, chorus and continuo, H.89
1 track
- Litanies de la Vierge, for 6 voices, chorus, 2 dessus de violes, and continuo, H.83
17 tracks
- Magnificat à 3 dessus, for 2 sopranos, mezzo-soprano, and continuo, H.75
1 track
- Magnificat, for 3 voices, chorus and continuo, H.76
1 track
- Magnificat, for 4 voices, chorus and continuo, H.80
1 track
- Magnificat, for 4 voices, chorus, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.72
2 tracks
- Magnificat, H.73
1 track
- Magnificat, Pour le Port-Royal, motet for 3 high sopranos, chorus and continuo, H.81
1 track
- Mors Saülis et Jonathae, histoire sacrée, for 8 voices, chorus, 2 violins and continuo, H.403
18 tracks
- Pour la fête de L'Épiphanie, histoire sacrée for 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.395
1 track
- Sacrificium Abrahae, histoire sacrée for 10 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.402
14 tracks
- Sans frayeur dans ce bois, chaconne for soprano and continuo, H.467
1 track
- Sept Répons des Ténèbres: Una hora
1 track
- 3 Tenebrae lessons, for 3 or 6 voices, flute, string and continuo, H.135-137
4 tracks
- 3 Tenebrae lessons, for haute-contre and continuo, H.138-140
1 track
- 9 Tenebrae lessons, H.96-110
1 track
- Veni creator Spiritus, motet for high soprano and continuo, H.69
1 track
- Le Malade imaginaire, incidental music for soloists, chorus, instruments and continuo, H.495
1 track
- Velum templi, H.128
1 track
- Caecilia Virgo et Martyr, histoire sacrée for 6 voices, chorus, strings and continuo, H.397
11 tracks
- Leçons de Ténèbres du Mercredy Sainct: Répons, Tristis est anima mea
2 tracks
- Leçons de Ténèbres du Mercredy Sainct
5 tracks
- Méditations pour le Carême, H.380-389
10 tracks
- Pastorale sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ, H.483
46 tracks
- Sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, H.482
2 tracks
- Quam dilecta, grand motet for double choir, H.167
8 tracks
- Quare fremuerunt gentes, grand motet for double choir, H.168
7 tracks
- Magnificat à 8 voix et 8 instruments, H.74
6 tracks
- 7 Noëls sur les instruments, for voices, 2 recorders, strings, and continuo, H.534
37 tracks
- Ave maris stella, hymn for 3 voices, 2 treble instruments and continuo, H.60
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Solo Vocal Works (Airs)
15 tracks
- Ah! qu'ils sont courts les beaux jours, air for soprano and continuo, H.442
1 track
- Auprès du feu l'on fait l'amour, air for soprano and continuo, H.446
1 track
- Beaux petits yeux d'écarlate, air for 3 voices and continuo, H.448
1 track
- Celle qui fait mon tout tourment, air for soprano and continuo, H.450
1 track
- Fenchon, la gentille Fenchon, air for 2 sopranos and continuo, H 454
1 track
- Oiseau de ces bocage, air for soprano and continuo, H.456
1 track
- Tout renaît, tout fleurit, air for 2 voices and continuo, H.468
1 track
- Tristes déserts, sombre retraite, air for soprano and continuo, H.469
1 track
- Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle, air for soprano, H.460c
6 tracks
- Veux-tu, compère Grégoire, air for 3 voices, H.470
1 track
- Ah! qu'ils sont courts les beaux jours, air for soprano and continuo, H.442
- Masses, H.1-11
Below are works by M.Charpentier that every music lover should explore:
- Vocal Works
- Messe de minuit pour Noël, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, H.9
50 tracks
- Motet pour les trépassés, for 5 voices, chorus, strings, and continuo, H.311
8 tracks
- Te Deum, for 8 voices, chorus, and orchestra, H.145
15 tracks
- Notable Movement: Prelude
- Te Deum, for 8 voices, chorus, and orchestra, H.146
92 tracks
- Sur la Naissance de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, H.482
2 tracks
- Notable Movement: Du pasteur que nous attendons
- Messe de minuit pour Noël, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, H.9