Hervé Niquet likes to say that recordings are a source of stress and sometimes tension: "That was not the case here at all," he continues. He has been performing this Couperin/de Lalande program for more than ten years with the singers of Le Concert Spirituel: "The seven singers know every nuance of these highly complex scores. So it was time to capture this testimony of ten years of work. (...) I love the parallel between the singers of Le Concert Spirituel and the nuns who sing these laments every year for the rest of their lives in their convent."