Chant de l'Église de Rome: Vêpres du jour de Pâques

Ensemble Organum’s Easter vespers chants are characteristically supple, but it’s a lightbulb moment when the eponymous two-part textures emerge, sonorous, timeless – a window on another world. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: HMO8901604
Label: Harmonia Mundi

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Chant de l'Église de Rome: Vêpres du jour de Pâques

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The chant that reigned in Europe for twelve centuries. When in the middle of the 8th Century, on the initiative of Pepin the Short, the heathen Franks took up relations with the Papacy in Rome, they were so impressed by the Roman liturgy - the most exalted expression of the type of civilization they desired to promote - that they transmitted their enthusiasm to the whole of the Western world.

It was thus that for twelve centuries the chant of the Church of Rome was to remain the standard liturgical practice.

In this regard the Easter Vespers are particularly fascinating, both in the solemnity of their procedure and in the extraordinary fullness of their chants.

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April 2020

Ensemble Organum’s Easter vespers chants are characteristically supple, but it’s a lightbulb moment when the eponymous two-part textures emerge, sonorous, timeless – a window on another world.

Chant de l'Église de Rome: Vêpres du jour de Pâques

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