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Iberia

CARDOSO, CHAGAS ROSA, EL SABIO, GUERRERO, LOBO, VICTORIA

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE POLYPHONIES
After the success of their program Méditerranée Sacrée, which has since been recorded on CD, for radio (France Musique) and for TV (Mezzo), has been presented in 50 or more concerts in
France, the USA, Canada, Tunisia, and Lebanon, the chamber choir Les éléments now presents a new program where old masterpieces stand alongside contemporary creations.
A musical journey through time in the Iberian Peninsula, from medieval Spain to the monastery of the Huelgas, to the Renaissance of Guerrero and Victoria, the monastery in Catalogne at Galicie, passing by the Castille and the Andalousie, the program brings us to the Portugal of Lobo and Cardoso, masters of the golden age of Portuguese polyphony in Lisbon. Alongside the older masterpieces, two global creations commissioned specifically for this program by Les éléments from the Portuguese composer António Chagas Rosa and from the Spanish composer Iván Solano.

« The pure beauty of 13th-century polyphony and plainsong, stylishly performed by Les éléments, moves gently into two of Victoria’s masterpieces, before the first of two vibrant, new choral works commissioned specially for this program. A sumptuous, adventurous album. » Apple Music US – Juin 2019

Distribution

Chamber choir les éléments | 18 a cappella singers | Direction Joël Suhubiette

Programme

Codex Las huelgas (ca 1300) : Ex illustri, Fa fa mi fa-Ut re mi ut / pour voix de femmes

Alfonso X El Sabio (1221-1284) : Cantigas de Santa Maria : Sancta Maria, Strela do dia (en galicien)

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) : Alma Redemptoris mater, Super Flumina Babylonis

Iván Solano (1973) : Cielo Arterial (2015) / pour 18 voix solistes a cappella
Sur un texte de Catherine Peillon - Commande du Choeur de chambre les éléments

Entracte

Tomas Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) : O Magnum Mysterium

Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599) : Canciones y villanescas espirituales, Juycios sobre una estrella, O Grandes Pazes (en espagnol)

Duarte Lôbo (1565-1646) : Audivi Vocem De Caelo

Manuel Cardoso (1566-1650) : Lamentatio (Lamentation et repons pour la seconde leçon des matines du jeudi saint)

António Chagas Rosa (1960) : Lumine Clarescet (2015) / pour 18 voix solistes a cappella
Sur un texte extrait des Prophéties de la Sybille de Cumes - Commande du Choeur de chambre les éléments

Next dates


04 September 2019 / 12H30 :