RELEASE MARCH 2014
AECD 1436 Music for a King The Winchester Troper, 11th century Pierre Chépélov & Joel Rust, 21st century Discantus . Brigitte Lesne 1 CD – Total time: 62’59
On Easter Day in the year 1043, King Edward the Confessor was crowned in Winchester Cathedral. Nearly 10 centuries later, the six women's voices of Discantus bring back to life the nascent polyphonies that were being written at the time in England: between Gregorian chant and organized two-part pieces, here we are at the beginnings of counterpoint and the practice of discantus (descant). These compositions are drawn from the Winchester Tropary, one of the most fabulous musical testimonies of the era, with most of the pieces selected centred on the Paschal period. In mirror are inserted, like two shimmering stained-glass windows framed ÆON · Outhere S.A. · Rue du Chêne 27 · B-1000 Brussels (Belgium) tel. : +32 2 373 82 00 · fax : +32 2 373 82 09 Sales & marketing : dominic@outhere-music.com · communication : julien@outhere-music.com info@outhere-music.com
RELEASE MARCH 2014 in the Romanesque stone, two compositions from today, commissioned by the ensemble on texts excerpted from Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy (c.524). These works, by two young composers – a Frenchman (Pierre Chépélov, born 1979) and a Briton (Joel Rust, born 1989) –, extend the musical exchanges that existed between the great island and the continent throughout the Middle Ages. Tracklist : 1) Alleluia / Versets: Pascha nostrum / Epulemur 4’09 2) Pascha nostrum –Communion tropée: Laus honor virtus / Peccata nostra / Ipse surrexit / Leo de tribu Iuda 4’25 3) Pierre Chépélov: O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas 7’22 4) Firmetur manus tua – Antienne de procession 3’37 5) Resurrexi – Introît tropé: Postquam factus homo / In regno superno / Laudibus angelorum / Tibi canunt angeli 7’36 6) Doxa en ipsistis - Gloria 4’56 7) Joel Rust: Sunt etenim pennae volucres mihi 6’03 8) Alleluia / Rex in aeternum – Séquence 5’52 9) Prome casta contio carmina – Prose 3’31 10) O redemptor summe carmen - Hymne 4’52 11) Miserere domine – Kyrie tropé 2’43 12) Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat / Laudes royales 7’52
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