'' (When the Lord turned he captivity of Zion'', sometimes referred to as ', is a setting by Jean-Philippe Rameau of ', the

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, (thus numbered in the King James Bible, number 125 in the

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). It is listed as RCT 14 in the ' of Sylvie Bouissou and Denis Herlin.

Composition

' is one of the four surviving church works of Rameau's early career, dating to the period 1710-1714 when he was working in

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; other similar works are known to be lost. The work was rewritten and updated in style for a performance at the in Paris in 1751. The manuscript of the 1751 version, now in the , was originally in the collection of , the lawyer and friend of Rameau who built a large collection of his manuscripts after the composer's death. The motet is scored for soloists, choir, strings and woodwind, and includes, after the fourth verse, a verse not in the original psalm, '' (Praise the name of God in song).'' The final verse is composed to include a fugue which, in the opinion of Reiner E. Moritz, "can stand direct comparison with ... Rameau's contemporary

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".Moritz (2004), p. )

Text

The Latin text is given below alongside the translation of the psalm in the King James Bible. The text in square brackets is not in the original psalm.

Recordings

* William Christie (conductor), Les Arts Florissants chorus and orchestra. CD. Erato, 1995. * William Christie (conductor), Les Arts Florissants chorus and orchestra.

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. Opus Arte, 2006. *

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(conductor),

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. CD. FNAC Music, 1983. *

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(conductor), Paris Chapelle Royale Chorus and Ghent Collegium Vocale. CD.

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External links

Notes and references

;Notes ;Sources * Bouissou, S. and Herlin, D. (2007). ''Jean-Philippe Rameau : Catalogue thématique des œuvres musicales (T. 1, Musique instrumentale. Musique vocale religieuse et profane)''. Paris: CNRS Édition et Éditions de la BnF, * Moritz, Reiner E. (2004). "True music is the language of the heart". Accompanying booklet to

recording of ''In convertendo'',

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OA 0956D, pp. - * Rameau, Jean-Philippe, ed. Camille Saint-Saëns (1898).
Oeuvres Complètes, Tome 4 .
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1 January 2015. * Sadler, Graham (1978). "A Letter from Claude-François Rameau to J. J. M. Decroix", ''

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'', vol. 59, no. 2 (Apr. 1978), pp. 139-147. . * Sadler, Graham (1983). "Rameau: Les grands motets" (review), ''

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'', vol. 124, no. 1687, Sep. 1983, p. 577. . * Sadler, Graham and Thomas Christensen (n.d.
"Rameau, Jean-Philippe"
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