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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor (KV 626), an emblematic work of the sacred repertoire, remains one of the best-known compositions in the history of classical music. Completed after Mozart...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem in D minor (KV 626), an emblematic work of the sacred repertoire, remains one of the best-known compositions in the history of classical music. Completed after Mozart...

Details: 9 women's voices and 3 instruments

Details: nine women's voices

Heather Dohollau's poetry always ventures to the border of words and silence. A native of Wales but having lived in France since 1950, Heather Dohollau (1925-2013) had found, through the confrontation...

This Dixit, which would have opened the vespers to the Virgin, could have also been written for the Sunday vespers; however the existence of an Introduzione al Dixit autograph score in Turin which all...

The Bible poem called "The Song of Songs" is an effusion of human love between a man and his wife. God is never mentio- ned but is everywhere as if he wanted to imitate the love between a man and a wo...

The performance of the Coronation Mass and the Requiem for the inauguration of the Mozart monument in Salzburg in September 1842, was conducted by Sigismund Neukomm (Salzburg, 1778-Paris, 1858), a tod...

The Libera me for mixed chorus was commissioned in 2006 by chorus master Lionel Sow and dedicated to him. A few years before, I had been deeply moved by the marvellous Sonnets de la Gélodacrye by the...

The genesis of Lamentation is a matter of friendship. Composed in memory of my friend and composer Laurent Galmiche who died prematurely, this piece was created in Montpellier in April 2008 by Anna Re...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, Hymne belongs with L'Été, Sous-Bois and Pendant la tempête to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the competition fo...

This motet was composed at the request of Roman Champion for his vocal ensemble L'offrande lyrique de Versailles which first performed it in April 2011. It mainly uses the text of the Maundy Thursday...

This motet was composed at the request of Roman Champion for his vocal ensemble L'offrande lyrique de Versailles which first performed it in April 2011. It mainly uses the text of the Maundy Thursday...

This Magnificat primi toni attributed to Cristóbal de Morales comes from the manuscript 5 of the Valladolid Cathedral and has not been listed in any printed edition until this day. Morales Magnificats...

The importance Morales gave to the writing of masses is well known, even if it is paradoxically his less performed repertoire. Though most of his masses were printed, a few examples of manuscript mass...

The source of this publication is the manuscript 5 from the Cathedral of Valladolid, which contains the only (anonymous) vocal copy of the motet In diebus illis, unlisted in the composer's catalogues....

Every singer knows Gabriel Fauré's art songs. They are to French language and impressionism what Schubert lieder are to German language and romanticism. Where the piano of Schubert is madrigalesque, d...

If Ferdinand Herold owes his reputation largely to his operas, of which Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre (1831) remains a reference until today, there are works from the beginning of his life that we sp...

If Ferdinand Herold owes his reputation largely to his operas, of which Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre (1831) remains a reference until today, there are works from the beginning of his life that we sp...

If Ferdinand Herold owes his reputation largely to his operas, of which Zampa ou La Fiancée de marbre (1831) remains a reference until today, there are works from the beginning of his life that we sp...

Between 1879 and 1891, Ernest Chausson composed ten motets. Only the Ave verum corpus (1883) was published during his lifetime. Tota pulchra es, Maria (1886) and Pater noster (1891) were published by...

In the publishing catalogues of the last thirty years, it is difficult to find works in quintet form, combining percussion with string quartet. This is because the questions posed by this arrange- men...

Between 1879 and 1891, Ernest Chausson composed ten motets. Only the Ave verum corpus (1883) was published during his lifetime. Tota pulchra es, Maria (1886) and Pater noster (1891) were published by...