Music for a King

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Release Date: 21st Apr 2014
Catalogue No: AECD1436
Label: Aeon
Length: 62 minutes

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anon.: Alleluia (Versets: Pascha nostrum - Epulemur)

Work length4:09

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

anon.: Laus, honor, virtus (Trope communion pascha nostrum)

Work length4:25

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

Pierre Chépélov: O qui perpetua mundum ratione gubernas

Work length7:22

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

anon.: Firmetur manus tua (Antienne de procession)

Work length3:36

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

anon.: Postquam factus homo (Trope introït resurrexi)

Work length7:35

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

anon.: Doxa en ipsistis (Gloria)

Work length4:55

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

Rust, J: Sunt etenim pennae volucres mihi

Work length6:02

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, Fran

anon.: Alleluia (Rex in æternum - Séquence)

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, Fran

anon.: Prome casta contio carmina (Prose)

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, Fran

anon.: O Redemptor summe carmes (Hymne)

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

anon.: Miserere dominum (Kyrie tropé)

Work length2:43

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

anon.: Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat (Laudes royales)

Work length7:53

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Discantus, Brigitte Lesne
Recorded: 11-14 March 2013
Recording Venue: German Evangelical Church, Paris, France

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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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