a few vocal and instrumental soloists and continuo, including élévations on an eucharistic text sung at the elevation of the communion wafers. Instrumental Delalande was an expert organist and harpsichordist, and yet has left not a single note of keyboard music. ritournelles - twelve substantial ritournelles for François Fossard and André Danican Philidor's book of Airs italiens (1695). For example, Delalande supplies a 31-bar-long ritournelle for two violins and continuo composed before ‘Giurai di non amar’ an aria from Domenico Freschi's Olimpia vendicata of 1681. Selected recordings Symphonies pour les soupers du Roy. Hugo Reyne (HMA) 1990 Les Folies de Cardenio. Christophe Coin (Laborie) - court ballet, "The Insanities of Cardenio", after Cervantes. 2004 Grands Motets : Te Deum, Confitebor, Super Flumina. Christie (HMA) 1991 Grands Motets : De Profundis, Miserere, Confitebor tibi. Higginbottom (Erato) 1990 Grands Motets : Dies Irae. Miserere. Herreweghe (HMC901352) 1991 Grands Motets : Beati quorum. Quam dilecta. Audite caeli. Schneebeli (Virgin) 2002 Grands Motets : Deus noster refugium Ps.46. Exaltabo te Domine. Le Parlement de Musique. Martin Gester (Opus 111) 2001 Grands Motets : Regina coeli. De Profundis. Cantate Domino. Skidmore (ASV) 1995 Petits motets: Miserere à voix seule. Vanum est vobis. Gens, Piau, Christie (HMT) 1992 3 Leçons de Ténèbres 1730. Desrochers (Astree) 1996 References External links 1657 births 1726 deaths 18th-century classical composers 18th-century French composers 18th-century keyboardists 18th-century French male musicians French Baroque composers French male classical composers French composers of sacred music French classical organists French male organists Musicians from Paris 17th-century male musicians Male classical organists