Antoine Sicot is a contemporary French soloist singer specialising in the

baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

repertoire for

bass voice A bass is a type of classical male singing voice and has the lowest vocal range of all voice types. According to ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'', a bass is typically classified as having a vocal range extending from around the second E b ...

Biography

Born in Saint-Ouen-de-Sécherouvre in

Orne Orne (; or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.ensemble Les Arts Florissants, spearhead of the "baroqueux" movement directed by William Christie. He was then one of the pillars of this ensemble alongside

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, Jill Feldman, Monique Zanetti, Guillemette Laurens,

Dominique Visse Dominique Visse (born 30 August 1955) is a French countertenor and founder of the Ensemble Clément Janequin. Life and career Dominique Visse was a chorister at the Notre-Dame de Paris and studied organ and flute at the Versailles Conservatory. A ...

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, Philippe Cantor,

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, François Fauché etc. He also collaborated with the

Ensemble Clément Janequin The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque. The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse. The group has recorded almost excl ...

, La Chapelle Royale, the

Ensemble Organum Ensemble Organum is a group performing early music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm B ...

etc.

Selected discography

With Les Arts Florissants

* 1982: ''Antienne "O" de l'Avent'' H.36-43 by

Marc-Antoine Charpentier Marc-Antoine Charpentier (; 1643 – 24 February 1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. One of his most famous works is the main theme from the prelude of his ''Te Deum'' ''H.146, Marche en rondeau''. This theme is st ...

* 1982: ' H.414 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1983: ' H.482 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1984: ''

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'' H.491 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1984: ''Airs de Cour'' by

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* 1986: ''Le Reniement de saint Pierre'' H.424 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier * 1986: '' Dido and Eneas'' by Henry Purcell * 1987: '' Selva morale e spirituale'' by Claudio Monteverdi * 1989: ' by

Luigi Rossi Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer. Born in Torremaggiore, a small town near Foggia, in the ancient kingdom of Naples, at an early age he went to Naples where he studied music with the Franco-Flemish comp ...

* 1990: ''

Le Malade imaginaire ''The Imaginary Invalid'', ''The Hypochondriac'', or ''The Would-Be Invalid'' ( French title ''Le Malade imaginaire'', ) is a three- act ''comédie-ballet'' by the French playwright Molière with dance sequences and musical interludes ( H.495, H ...

'' H 495 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier

With Ensemble Clément Janequin

* 1982: ''Le Chant des Oyseaulx'' by

Clément Janequin Clément Janequin (c. 1485 – 1558) was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers of popular chansons of the entire Renaissance, and along with Claudin de Sermisy, was hugely influential in the development o ...

* 1982: ''Octonaires De La Vanité Du Monde'' by Paschal de L'Estocart * 1984: ''Amours de Ronsard'' by Antoine de Bertrand * 1985: ''Fricassée parisienne'' on Harmonia Mundi * 1987: '' Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz'' by Heinrich Schütz * 1987: ''La Chasse'' by Clément Janequin * 1988: ''Chansons'' by

Josquin des Prez Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

* 1988: ''Messe L'homme armé et Requiem'' by

Pierre de la Rue Pierre de la Rue ( – 20 November 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. His name also appears as Piersson or variants of Pierchon and his toponymic, when present, as various forms of de Platea, de Robore, or de Vic ...

* 2002: ''Missa Et ecce terrae motus'' by

Antoine Brumel Antoine Brumel (c. 1460 – 1512 or 1513) was a French composer. He was one of the first renowned French members of the Franco-Flemish School, Franco-Flemish school of the Renaissance music, Renaissance, and, after Josquin des Prez, was one of t ...

With La Chapelle Royale

* 1992: ''Missa Viri Galilei'' by

Palestrina Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; , ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon ...

(Ensemble Vocal Européen de la Chapelle Royale and

)

With Ensemble Organum

* 1985: ''Songs of the Church of Rome - Byzantine Period'' * 1986: ''

Missa Pange lingua The ''Missa Pange lingua'' is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the '' ...

'' by Josquin des Prez * 1988: ''Chants de l'église Milanaise'' * 1989: ''Carmina Burana'' * 1990: ''The Play of the Pilgrimage to Emmaus''.The Play of the Pilgrimage to Emmaus
on Harmonia Mundi * 1990: ''Messe de Tournai'' * 1991: ''

Old Roman chant Old Roman chant is the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman rite of the early Christian Church. It was formerly performed in Rome, and, although it is closely related to Gregorian chant, the two are distinct. Unlike other chant traditions ...

'' * 1992: ''

Requiem A Requiem (Latin: ''rest'') or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead () or Mass of the dead (), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased, using a particular form of the Roman Missal. It is ...

'' by Johannes Ockeghem * 1994: ''Messe de la Nativité de la Vierge'' * 1995: ''

Messe de Nostre Dame ''Messe de Nostre Dame'' (''Mass of Our Lady'') is a polyphonic mass composed before 1365 by French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377). Widely regarded as one of the masterpieces of medieval music and of all religious music, ...

'' by Guillaume de Machaut * 2004: ' -

Codex Calixtinus The (or ''Codex Compostellus'') is a manuscript that is the main witness for the 12th-century ('Book of Saint James'), a pseudepigraph attributed to Pope Calixtus II. The principal author or compiler of the ''Liber'' is thus referred to as "Ps ...

References

External links

Antoine Sicot
on Ensemble Organum
Site de l'ensemble Les Arts Florissants

Cantate BWV 4 - solistes: Étienne Rosset, Antoine Sicot
on YouTube {{DEFAULTSORT:Sicot, Antoine People from Orne Musicians from Normandy Living people French basses 21st-century French male opera singers Operatic basses 20th-century French male opera singers 1953 births