Gramophone Awards
2019
Finalist - Solo Vocal

Schallplattenkritik Awards
2018
Winner - Jahrespreis

Diapason d’Or de l’Année
2018
Winner - Musique baroque vocale

Diapason d’Or
June 2018
Nouveauté

Lucile Richardot (contralto)

Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé

Johnson, R: Care-charming sleep
Lawes, W: Justitia Sacrum (Whiles I this standing lake)
Coprario: The Masque of Squires: Go, happy man
Ramsey, R: What tears, dear Prince, can serve
Lawes, W: Music, the master of thy art is dead
Lanier: Selected Ayres and Dialogues: No more shall meads
Ramsey, R: Go, perjured man
Jenkins, J: Pavan in F-Major
Banister: Choice Ayres & Songs: Give me my lute
Ramsey, R: Howl not, you ghosts and furies
Lawes, W: Britannia Triumphans: Chorus "Britanocles the great and good appears" (King's Masque Final)
Webb, W: Powerful Morpheus, let thy charms
Hilton: The Judgment of Paris: Rise, princely shepherd
Hart, James: Choice Ayres & Songs: Adieu to the pleasures
Banister: Choice Ayres & Songs: Amintas, that true hearted swain
Blow: Amphion Anglicus: Poor Celadon, he sighs in vain (Loving above himself)
Locke: Little Consort of 3 Parts, Suite III: IV. Saraband
Purcell: Celestial Music: When Orpheus sang
Jackson, John: Choice Ayres & Songs: Phillis, oh! turn that face
Blow: Amphion Anglicus: Epilogue "Sing, sing, Ye Muses"

The circulation of artists and sovereigns between France and England in the seventeenth century resulted in the establishment of highly original genres in the latter country: the first recitatives, large-scale airs from masques and dramatic ‘scenes’ provided fertile ground for experimentation and prepared the way for the birth of semi-opera. Sébastien Daucé explores this English vocal art in a programme tailor-made for one of today’s most fascinating voices: Lucile Richardot, in the exquisite setting provided by Ensemble Correspondances, subtly blends music, love, night and melancholy.

"The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite have Purcell’s pulling-power on a recording but that disparity has rarely sounded more misplaced than it does here." - Gramophone Magazine, July 2018.