COMPOSERS: Couperin
LABELS: Zig Zag Territoires
WORKS: Messe a l’usage des paroisses; Messe a l’usage des convents
PERFORMER: Aude Heurtematte (organ)
Recorded in Couperin’s own church, St Gervais in Paris, where much of the organ predates the Revolution, Aude Heurtematte conveys the variety of his two seminal organ Masses – and a sense of 17th-century religious ceremony. John Allison