Music: Jean-Christophe Rosaz Calliope - Régine Théodoresco, Voix de femmes d'après Les Causeuses, Camille Claudel © Musée Rodin - ADAGP Photo : Christian BARAJA Les voix murmurent, s’élèvent et disparaissent à nouveau un peu comme une vague (autre...  moreMusic: Jean-Christophe Rosaz Calliope - Régine Théodoresco, Voix de femmes d'après Les Causeuses, Camille Claudel © Musée Rodin - ADAGP Photo : Christian BARAJA Les voix murmurent, s’élèvent et disparaissent à nouveau un peu comme une vague (autre sculpture célèbre) , telle une Camille démultipliée… "Merci pour cette communication d'une nouvelle pièce de votre composition. Elle est impressionnante. Un résultat et une interprétation de Calliope superbes, mais quel choc: malgré la musique, malgré Les voix, malgré le texte, le temps semble être suspendu. Ou plutôt, on le voit passer sans pouvoir ni le maîtriser, ni en profiter. C'est une musique du vide mental, spirituel et même physique. Une musique du néant alors qu'on pressent que tant de choses se passent au-delà. Si c'est cela votre conception de l'enfermement carcéral, je ne veux jamais connaître la prison. On a le sentiment d'un effondrement psychologique progressif. Votre pièce "Injail" marque le début de l'enfermement et de la descente aux enfe...    Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

1. God rest you merry, gentlemen (English traditional carol, harmonised by Sir David Willcocks) 2. Away in a manger (words anon, set to a traditional Normandy tune arranged by Reginald Jacques) These carols were recorded on Sunday 13th December 2009 ...  more1. God rest you merry, gentlemen (English traditional carol, harmonised by Sir David Willcocks) 2. Away in a manger (words anon, set to a traditional Normandy tune arranged by Reginald Jacques) These carols were recorded on Sunday 13th December 2009 during the first of St Peter's Singers' two now-traditional annual performances to guests at the Espresso Bar of Harvey Nichols' Leeds store in the Victoria Quarter. The choir is directed on this occasion by its regular accompanist David Houlder, Sub-Organist of Leeds Parish Church. The Music Director of St Peter's Singers is Dr Simon Lindley, Organist of Leeds Parish Church and Leeds City Organist, who has held this post since the choir's formation in 1977. More information about St Peter's Singers, including details of forthcoming concerts, recitals and church services, may be found on the choir's website www.stpeters-singers.org.uk or on the Facebook group 'St Peter's Singers of Leeds'.  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

Hari Bouriquet (Gee up little donkey) Second version - with tentative translation in the video itself This is a satirical madrigal mocking the Catholics of the timebased on a madrigal allegedly composed by Claudin de Sermisy.... (actually I find this ...  moreHari Bouriquet (Gee up little donkey) Second version - with tentative translation in the video itself This is a satirical madrigal mocking the Catholics of the timebased on a madrigal allegedly composed by Claudin de Sermisy.... (actually I find this hard to believe since he was a good Catholic, but maybe someone has further information?)... The original is partly in Renaissance French of the court and partly in a dialect of that period. Performed by the dwsChorale (a one-man choir)  

Μεγαλυνάριο: Ἄξιον ἐστίν Συνθέτης: Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου (Αθήνα, 1915-1984) Ερμηνεία: Ανδρική Πολυφωνική Χορωδία Αγίου Αλεξάνδρου Π. Φαλήρου Magnificat (i.e. Megalynarion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalynarion) : Axion Estin (English : It is Truly Mee...  moreΜεγαλυνάριο: Ἄξιον ἐστίν Συνθέτης: Παναγιώτης Γεωργίου (Αθήνα, 1915-1984) Ερμηνεία: Ανδρική Πολυφωνική Χορωδία Αγίου Αλεξάνδρου Π. Φαλήρου Magnificat (i.e. Megalynarion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalynarion) : Axion Estin (English : It is Truly Meet, German : Gepriesen Sei) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axion_Estin) Axion Estin (in English) It is truly meet to bLess thee, O Theotokos, ever bLessed, and most pure, and the Mother of our God. More honorable than the cherubium, and beyond compare more glorious than the seraphim. Without corruption thou gave birth to God the Word, the true Theotokos, we magnify thee  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

4 part Canon by Orlando di Lasso Performed by the Strasbourg singers in 1976 Dis-moi, beau printemps, pour qui sont ces fleurs et ces chansons, La lune blanche dans l'étang, Les nids blottis dans Les taillis ? [De ta beauté, de tes parfums ne nou...  more4 part Canon by Orlando di Lasso Performed by the Strasbourg singers in 1976 Dis-moi, beau printemps, pour qui sont ces fleurs et ces chansons, La lune blanche dans l'étang, Les nids blottis dans Les taillis ? [De ta beauté, de tes parfums ne nous lassons.]* English singing translation: Tell me, lovely Spring, Now whom are these flowers and songs for? The white moon shining in the pool The nests are hidden in the woods [Let us not tire of your beauty and perfumes.] (The last line was not included in the edition that we were using, but the score referenced here contains the whole piece)  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

NotePerformer 3/Scrolling Score Into This World I Came As a Lost One Music by Gustav Mahler (1901) from "Lieder nach Ruckert" German words by Friedrich Rückert English singing translation by Robert Schuneman. arranged for SATB Chorus and Orchestra ...  moreNotePerformer 3/Scrolling Score Into This World I Came As a Lost One Music by Gustav Mahler (1901) from "Lieder nach Ruckert" German words by Friedrich Rückert English singing translation by Robert Schuneman. arranged for SATB Chorus and Orchestra by Stanley M. Hoffman (2000) NotePerformer 3 and scrolling score video in search of live performances. Arrangement: © Copyright 2002 by Ione Press, Inc., a division of ECS Publishing Group. www.ecspublishing.com All rights reserved. Used by permission. ECS Publishing Catalog No. 8401.  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

Upper voice version of the set of folksongs that Seiber arranged in 1950.

Traditional German carol (based on a Thuringian melody "Seht wie die Sonne dort sinket" from around 1808), The melody moves through the parts while the other parts represent the ringing of the bells - with a few added cheeky English cadences. version...  moreTraditional German carol (based on a Thuringian melody "Seht wie die Sonne dort sinket" from around 1808), The melody moves through the parts while the other parts represent the ringing of the bells - with a few added cheeky English cadences. versions are also available for string quartet, wind quartet, brass quartet, flute quartet and clarinet quartet.  

Robin Adair arranged for SATB choir (sung, transposed down in this video, by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale) [Note: a few textual errors have crept into the performance - but the score has the correct words] The original tune was composed...  moreRobin Adair arranged for SATB choir (sung, transposed down in this video, by the one-man multitrack choir dwsChorale) [Note: a few textual errors have crept into the performance - but the score has the correct words] The original tune was composed with the words Eibhlin a Ruin (Ellen Aroon or Eileen Aroon) by the Irish bard Carroll O'Daly (14th Century), although it was later attributed to the 18th century Irish composer CharLes Coffey (this was presumably an arrangement of the original). The words of "Robin Adair" itself are understood to be by Lady Caroline Keppel, who was in love with a surgeon by that name. (This seems more likely than the theory that Robert Burns wrote it, although Burns certainly knew Keppel's lyrics and made his own parodies upon the words). Some later versions of the melody contain "Scotch snaps" but this version follows the simpLest melodic line, without the Scotch snaps - possibly O'Daly's original tune? - and with quite romantic choral harmonies.  Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less

text: Sophie BERNARD music: Jean-Christophe ROSAZ by Ensemble vocal FaMajeur cond. Marie-Clotilde MOES --- Qui me consolera dans la nuit noire, la nuit plus noire que Les hommes Non pas celle où l’on entre pour mieux sentir le monde, non pas...  moretext: Sophie BERNARD music: Jean-Christophe ROSAZ by Ensemble vocal FaMajeur cond. Marie-Clotilde MOES --- Qui me consolera dans la nuit noire, la nuit plus noire que Les hommes Non pas celle où l’on entre pour mieux sentir le monde, non pas celle qui contraint à l’infini par sa clarté soudaine Non pas encore la nuit de nos murmures roses, et que j’entends ton regard qui m’excède et la respiration de l’enfant (car il revient, analogie des anges) Qui me consolera sans toi, sans lui qui nous aime --- Who will console me in the dark night, the night darker than men Not the one where we enter to feel better the world, not the one that constrains to infinity by its sudden clarity Not yet night of our pink whispers, and that I hear your look that exceeds me and the breath of the child (for he returns, analogy of angels) Who will console me without you, without him who loves us --- Fluidité des lignes ou densité sonore, ombre et lumière, crainte ou sérénité, calme o...    Less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.display='';$(this).getParent().style.display='none';">Less