Ensemble Organum
Encyclopedia
Ensemble Organum is a group performing early music
, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès
and is based in France
. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos
.
The group mainly focuses on the performance of music from the Middle Ages
, including Old Roman
, Gallican
and Carolingian chants, as well works from the 15th century. In addition to musical performance, the ensemble also works with musicologists and historians on musical research from this period.
Formerly based at Sénanque Abbey
and Royaumont Abbey
, the ensemble currently shares facilities in Moissac
with the Centre for Itinerant Research of Medieval and Early Music.
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès
Marcel Pérès is a French musicologist, composer, choral director and singer, and the founder of the early music group Ensemble Organum. He is an authority on Gregorian and pre-Gregorian chant....
and is based in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos
Lycourgos Angelopoulos
Lycourgos Angelopoulos is the founder and director of the Greek Byzantine Choir. He is also an Archon Protopsaltes of the Archdiocese of Constantinople....
.
The group mainly focuses on the performance of music from the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...
, including Old Roman
Old Roman chant
Old Roman chant is the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Roman rite of the Roman Catholic Church formerly performed in Rome, closely related to but distinct from the Gregorian chant, which gradually supplanted it between the 11th century and the 13th century...
, Gallican
Gallican chant
Gallican chant refers to the liturgical plainchant repertory of the Gallican rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Gaul, prior to the introduction and development of elements of the Roman rite from which Gregorian chant evolved...
and Carolingian chants, as well works from the 15th century. In addition to musical performance, the ensemble also works with musicologists and historians on musical research from this period.
Formerly based at Sénanque Abbey
Sénanque Abbey
Sénanque Abbey is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gordes in the département of the Vaucluse in Provence, France.-First foundation:...
and Royaumont Abbey
Royaumont Abbey
Royaumont Abbey was a Cistercian abbey, located near Asnières-sur-Oise in Val-d'Oise, approximately 30 km north of Paris, France.-History:It was built between 1228 and 1235 with the support of Louis IX...
, the ensemble currently shares facilities in Moissac
Moissac
Moissac is a commune in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Midi-Pyrénées region in southern France. It is famous world-wide mostly for the artistic heritage handed down by the ancient Saint-Pierre Abbey.-History:...
with the Centre for Itinerant Research of Medieval and Early Music.
Discography
- Polyphonie aquitaine du XIIe siècle: St. Martial de Limoges (1983)
- Messe du Jour de Noel (École de Notre-Dame) (1985)
- Chants de l'Église de Rome des VIIe et VIIIe siècles: période byzantine (1986)
- Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange lingua (1986)
- Codex Chantilly: airs de cour du XIVe siècle (1986)
- Corsica: Chants polyphoniques (1986)
- François Couperin: Messe a l'usage ordinaire des paroisses (1986)
- Chants de l'Église Milanaise (1988)
- Plain-chant Cathedrale d'Auxerre (1990)
- Ludus paschalis sive de Passione Domini (1990)
- Le jeu des pèlerins d'Emmaüs: drame liturgique du XIIe siècle (1991)
- Messe de Tournai (1991)
- Codex Faenza - Selections (1991)
- Palestrina: Missa Viri Galilaei (1991)
- Chants Cistercien (1991)
- Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne (1991)
- Messe de Saint Marcel (1992)
- Ockeghem: Requiem (1993)
- Chant de la Cathedrale de Benevento (1993)
- Plain-Chant Parisien: XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles (1994)
- Chant Corse: Manuscrits franciscains des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles (1994)
- Chant Mozarabe Cathédrale de Tolède (XVe siècle) (1994)
- École Notre Dame: Messe de la Nativité de la Vierge (1994)
- Laudario di Cortona: Un mystère du XIIIe siècle (1996)
- Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame (1996)
- Hildegard von Bingen: Laudes de Sainte Ursule (1997)
- Chants de l'église de Rome - Vêpres (1998)
- Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi: Codex Calixtinus (2004)
- Le chant des Templiers (2004)
- Ad vesperas Sancti Ludovici Regis Franciæ (2005)
- Incarnatio Verbi: Chant de L'Église de Rome (2008)
- Missa Gotica - XIV siècle (2010)