Музыка и песни ENSEMBLE ORGANUM; MARCEL PERES / ENSEMBLE ORGANUM; MARCEL PERES

Aided by practices passed down by tradition and the tools of musical archaeology, Marcel Pérès leads a broader inquiry into the tracing and preserving our liturgical and musical legacy. In reconstructing this solemn Mass for the Nativity of the Virgin, the Ensemble Organum presents a gem of devotional music which exemplifies the Notre-Dame School: a repertory of 13th-century polyphony that profoundly influenced further development of European sacred music.

As a ‘craftsman of the old and the new forge’, Guillaume de Machaut contributed to the tradition of his famous predecessors such as Adam de la Halle and Jehan Lescurel in laying the foundations for an aesthetic with an illustrious future, the Ars Nova. His Messe de Nostre Dame, the first complete mass cycle whose composer is known, forms the quintessence of the renewal of sonorities and rhythms which marked the 14th century in France and Italy.