FOLLOW the mysteries of the Rosary with French composer André Caplet’s Le Miroir de Jésus. The entire cycle recorded by the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie with mezzo-soprano Brigitte Desnoues can be found here.

Caplet devoted most of his compositional energy to religious music, and Le miroir de Jésus emerges as his spiritual masterpiece. Cast in three sections, it is fashioned after the Rosary, its tripartite structure divided into sequences devoted to the birth of Jesus, his Passion and crucifixion, and the Resurrection. Each section is announced by the chorus, leading to an instrumental prelude, after which the mezzo-soprano sings five sonnets to texts by Henri Ghéon.

Though the piece is economically orchestrated for just strings and harp, Caplet manages to pull off an incredibly broad range of emotions and sounds. (Source)

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