Beyond the summits
Polyphonies en pays pyrénéens
A 2020 creation
A frontier, a refuge and a passageway, the Pyrenees mountains separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Europe. Around it, folk, cultures, traditions and languages live alongside, mingle, influence or confront one another and fraternize.
Les Elements have singled out several jewels from the polyphonic heritage of Occitanie, Catalunya, Aragon or the Basque Country, and will perform new contemporary pieces to celebrate the beauty and mysteries of the Pyrenees.
“The pyreneist’s ideal is to simultaneously be able to climb, write and feel. (…) If, a rare occurrence, he climbs, writes and feels, if in a word he is the painter of a most special nature, painter of the mountains, he leaves behind a true, admirable book.”
Henri BERALDI (1849-1939), art historian – “Cent ans aux Pyrénées” (A hundred years in the Pyrenees)
Distribution
Les Elements Chamber Choir – 18 a capella singers – conducting Joël Suhubiette
Programme
José de Cáseda y Villamayor (1660 - 1725), choirmaster at the Pamplona cathedral
Kyrie (in latin)
Melchor Robledo (1510-1586), choirmaster at the Saragossa Cathedral
Invitatorium defunctorum
Psalmus confitebor septimi toni
Domine Iesu Christe
Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen (Gabriel’s message)
Traditional song in Basque language
Claire-Mélanie Sinnhuber (1973)
Neguan, elurte batez (In winter, on a snowy day) - 2020
Based on a poem by Arnaut Oihenarte (1592-1667) (in Basque language)
Composition commission by Les Elements Chamber Choir
Guillaume Boni (around 1515-1594), choirmaster at the Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Toulouse
Adesto dolori meo (1573) (in Latin)
Pascal Caumont (1967- )
Montségur 1944 (2009)
Based on a text by René Nelli (1906-1982) (in Occitan)
For a cappella male voices
Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (1370)
O virgo spendens - 1370
Mariam Matrem - 1370 (en latin)
Joan Magrané Figuera (1988 - )
L’Encis - 2020
Based on the poem “Canigó » by Jacint Verdaguer (1845-1902) (in Catalan)
For 18 a cappella voices
Composition commission by Les Elements Chamber Choir
Joby Talbot (1971 - )
Roncesvalles (Extract from Path of Miracles) – 2005
Based on a text by Robert Dickinson (1962) (in Latin, ancient Greek, French and English)
For 17 soloist a cappella voices
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This programme is coproduced by Les Elements, Le Parvis scène nationale Tables Pyrénées and the Abbaye-école de Sorèze, and supported by SACEM, SPEDIDAM and Musique Nouvelle en Liberté.
Next dates
23 July 2020 / 8H45 :