When Lalande left this vale of tears, his fame was its height; between 1725 and 1730, he was the composer most frequently programmed in Paris. Audiences flocked to hear his motets, notably the three Leçons de Ténèbres and the Miserere for solo voice, written for the offices of Holy Week. Many composers had already produced settings of these texts in the France of the Sun King, making the Office of Tenebrae a genuine social event. True to the same aesthetic, Lalande exploited this art of ambiguity while deviating from tradition.

Tracklist

1. Miserere
2. O Mors
3. Miserere mei Deus / Et secundum multitudinem miserationem tuarum
4. Amplius lava me / Tibi soli peccavi
5. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus / Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti
6. Asperges me hyssopo / Averte faciem tuam
7. Cor mundum / Ne projicias me
8. Redde mihi lætitiam / Docebo iniquos vias tuas
9. Libera me de sanguinibus / Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium
10. Sacrificium Deo spiritus contribulatus / Benigne fac Domine
11. Tunc acceptabis
12. Tristis est anima mea
13. Troisième Leçon du Mercredy
14. Jod. Manum suam misit hostis
15. Caph. Omnis populus ejus
16. Vide Domine
17. Lamed
18. O vos omnes
19. Mem. De excelso
20. Nun. Vigilavit
21. Infirmata est
22. Jerusalem
23. Ecce vidimus eum
24. Troisième Leçon du Jeudy
25. Aleph. Ego vir videns
26. Aleph. Me minavit
27. Aleph. Tantum in me vertit
28. Beth. Vetustam fecit
29. Beth. Aedificavit in gyro meo
30. Beth. In tenebrosis
31. Ghimel. Circum ædificavit
32. Ghimel. Sed, et cum clamavero
33. Ghimel. Conclusit vias meas
34. Jerusalem
35. Vinea mea electa
36. Troisième Leçon du Vendredy
37. Incipit oratio
38. Recordare
39. Pupilli facti sumus
40. Cervicibus nostris
41. Lassis non dabatur
42. Recordare
43. Ægypto dedimus manum
44. In animabus nostris
45. Pellis nostra
46. Mulieres
47. Jerusalem
48. Plange quasi virgo