Ensemble Antiphona & Rolandas Muleika – Montigny: Grands Motets (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:51 minutes | 1005 MB | Genre: Classical
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“This Valette is one of the most stupendous geniuses we have and his music is stupendous too”. This is how the famed Sebastian de Brossard introduces his contemporary composer Joseph Valette de Montigny. Though acknowledged for its qualities, Montigny’s music has very rarely been played. Nor has it ever been recorded. Simply on account of its rarity and the absence of scores, it has remained unpublished. Thanks to this recording on which two great motets are performed, Antiphona Ensemble and its director Rolandas Muleïka are filling a vacuum. These motets are two outstanding pieces in Joseph de Montigny’s catalogue. Musicologist Benoît Michel, who died at a very young age, was the main instigator of this felicitous rediscovery: he would undoubtedly have felt enthusiastic about the release of this recording. This presentation draws to a large extent upon his work.
Details of original recording : Recorded in August 2019 at église Saint-Pierre des Chartreux, Toulouse (France)
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Ensemble Antiphona & Rolandas Muleika – L’Occitanie baroque de Pénitents Noirs (2017)
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The Villefranche de Rouergue’s ‘Pénitents Noirs’ (Black Penitents) treasure is also a ‘musical treasure’. It includes a collection of handwritten scores along with musical instruments – among which a remarkable serpent – which testify to the pomp of the great ceremonies and processions throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Long silenced but now restored thanks to the work of Jean-Christophe Maillard, the late Toulouse musicologist, and of the conductor Rolandas Muleika, the chosen motets have been given a new life.
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