Music for a King: The Winchester Troper
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Label: Aeon
Cat No: AECD1436
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 21st April 2014
Contents
Works
Alleluia / Rex in aeternum: SequenceAlleluia / Versets: Pascha nostrum / Epulemur
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat / Laudes royales
Doxa en ipsistis: Gloria
Firmetur manus tua: Antienne de procession
Miserere domine: Kyrie trope
O redemptor summe carmen: Hymn
Pascha nostrum: Communion tropée: Laus honor virtus / Peccata nostra / Ipse surrexit / Leo de tribu Iuda
Prome casta contio carmina: Prose
Resurrexi: Introît tropé: Postquam factus homo / In regno superno / Laudibus angelorum / Tibi canunt angeli
O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas
Sunt etenim pennae volucres mihi
Artists
DiscantusConductor
Brigitte LesneWorks
Alleluia / Rex in aeternum: SequenceAlleluia / Versets: Pascha nostrum / Epulemur
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat / Laudes royales
Doxa en ipsistis: Gloria
Firmetur manus tua: Antienne de procession
Miserere domine: Kyrie trope
O redemptor summe carmen: Hymn
Pascha nostrum: Communion tropée: Laus honor virtus / Peccata nostra / Ipse surrexit / Leo de tribu Iuda
Prome casta contio carmina: Prose
Resurrexi: Introît tropé: Postquam factus homo / In regno superno / Laudibus angelorum / Tibi canunt angeli
O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas
Sunt etenim pennae volucres mihi
Artists
DiscantusConductor
Brigitte LesneAbout
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 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.
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