ITINÉRANCE SACRÉE
AROUND ALLEGRI'S MISERERE : FROM SHADOW TO LIGHT
Distribution
8 or 12 a cappella singers
Style
Sacred music
Conducting
Christopher Gibert, conductor
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
This programme is an initiatory journey, a sound ritual interweaving 800 years of sacred choral music. Designed as a vault resting on four pillars – tradition, spirituality, emotion and sound architecture – it explores the timeless resonances between man, music and ancient stones.
Echoing sacred architecture, each work is part of this intangible heritage that dialogues with vaults and sacred spaces. Monteverdi's Adoramus Te, combined with Media Vita by English composer Kerensa Briggs, begins this journey, like a call for deliverance and inner peace. The highlight of the journey, Allegri's Miserere, a jewel of the Italian stile antico, embodies a fragile light at the heart of penitence and elevation.
From there, the path widens to the audacity of contemporary creation, where transcendence is reinvented. This dialogue across the centuries reveals the power of choral music: a sacred, universal and eternal art form.
PROGRAM DETAILS
Anonyme (XIVe siècle) : O virgo Splendens (Livre Vermeil de Montserrat)
Claudio MONTEVERDI (1567 -1663) : Adoramus te
Kerensa BRIGGS (1993 - ) : Media Vita
Orlando DI LASSO (1532-1594) : Musica Dei donum optimi
Pierre VILLETTE (1926-1998) : Jesu, dulcis Memoria
Antonio LOTTI (1667-1740) : Crucifixus
Gregorio ALLEGRI (1582-1652) : Miserere
Thomas TALLIS (1505-1585) : If ye love me
Imogen HOLST (1907-1984) - A Hymne to Christ
Francis POULENC (1899-1963) : Salve Regina
Thomas OSPITAL (1990- ) : Ave verum (création)
Urmas SISSASK (1960-2022) : Benedictio
Christopher GIBERT (1993- ) : Jubilate Deo (creation)
Darius LIM (1986- ) : Gloria, Alléluia (French creation)
Program duration : about 1h
Program lit by candlelight and the glow of the singers' desk lamps