Ensemble Organum

Ensemble Organum & Marcel Pérès – In memoria eterna (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:16:15 minutes | 2,64 GB | Genre: Classical
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This recording came to fruition thanks to nearly 25 years’ worth of efforts. In 1997, Marcel Pérès and his Ensemble Organum began a simultaneous exploration of the Mozarabic rite (the liturgical chant peculiar to the Christians living in Spain at the time of Arab rule) and of the Samaa spiritual practice of Morocco. Setting aside the theological differences between the two faiths, the artists discovered a great deal of kinship between the two forms of musical expression. A veritable utopia, the idea for this recording then suggested itself: through music, to regain the lost accord of human brotherhood.

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Ensemble Organum and Marcel Pérès – Compostela “Ad vesperas Sancti Iacobi” (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:28 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
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Since the ninth century, the routes to Santiago de Compostela leading to the sanctuary of St. James have attracted countless pilgrims and exercised a potent mystique. What has received less attention is the music originally sung during the services in honour of the saint. Thanks to Marcel Peres’s in-depth study of the Codex Calixtinus, preserved at the Cathedral of Santiago, this recording can present a reconstruction of the musical gems contained in the rare twelfth-century manuscript which attests to multiple stylistic influences encountered on this indispensable and all-embracing pilgrimage.

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