Éditions Hortus is an independent French disk producer which offers largely unknown works for voice and organ as well as contemporary compositions. Specialised in organ

Organ (music)

The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

 and choir music, it has in particular presented disks of Notre Dame de Paris and of the choir 'Les Éléments

Les Éléments

Les Éléments is a professional chamber choir established in Toulouse in 1997 by choirmaster Joel Suhubiette.The choir has sung commissioned works by contemporary composers including Zad Moultaka, Patrick Burgan and Philippe Hersant....

', as well as of the young harpsichordist Benjamin Alard.

Éditions Hortus wishes to produce disks exploring rare or unrecorded music.

Vincent Genvrin is the label’s artistic director. Didier Maes is its executive producer.

History

Founded in 1994, Éditions Hortus first showed its interest in disks with “Via Crucis” (Way of the Cross) by Franz Liszt, interpreted by the Sacrum Choir from Riga. The CD was accompanied by a series of fifteen serigraphs by Daniel Vincent and Guillaume Dégé, printed in a limited, numbered edition.

On 17 November 2006, Didier Maes, as producer of the label, was a guest in the France Musique programme “Par ici les sorties!” (Releases over here!), to present a selection of four Hortus disks.

In the spring of 2010, backed by the Conseil général du Loiret

Loiret

Loiret is a department in north-central FranceThe department is named after the river Loiret, a tributary of the Loire. The Loiret is located wholly within the department.- History :...

, Éditions Hortus joined the “Amis de l’Orgue de Lorris” to record I7th century Iberian and Flemish music, interpreted by organist Damien Colcomb in the communal 12th century church.

On 7 February 2011, the Éditions Hortus catalogue listed 79 recordings available only on CDs.

Classical

Britten Choir, directed by Nicole Corti. In 2005, the ensemble recorded masses, motets and organ pieces by Joseph Guy Ropartz (1864–1955) in honour of Saint Anne, with Loïc Mallié at the organ. In 2007, the ensemble worked again with Éditions Hortus for the ‘Book of Hours’ of Édith Canat de Chizy. These two recordings were well received by the critics. Female vocal ensemble Ad Limina Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, director Lionel Sow Ensemble grégorien, director Sylvain Dieudonné Choirs and soloists from Lyon, director Bernard Tétu

Russian orthodox choir of Riga Sacrum Choir, director Andreis Veismanis La Camerata Baroque choir, director Daniel Meylan Le Concert des Dames, direction Frédéric Bourdin Les Temps Modernes Ensemble

The chamber choir Les Éléments, directed by Joël Suhubiette, received the Victoire de la musique classique for best vocal ensemble in 2006.

Harpsichord

• Benjamin Alard, Prize of the jury and Prize of the public at the Harpsichord competition of Bruges 2004. In 2005, with Hortus, Benjamin Alard made his first recording ‘which revealed him to the general audience’, an anthology of keyboard music for harpsichord and organ; the disk was immediately praised by the critics. In December 2006, Hortus recorded a collection of transcriptions for harpsichord of pieces by Reincken and Vivaldi. Three years later, Alard’s interpretaion of the Bauyn Manuscript (Éditions Hortus, 2008) was very well received by music critics.
• Freddy Eichelberger
• Laurent Stewart

Organ

Benjamin Alard Régis Allard Lionel Avot. In the summer of 2010, with Éditions Hortus, he recorded his first CD in the church Notre-Dame de la Dalbade in Toulouse with a selection of pieces by César Franck (1822–1890). Lionel Avot was introduced to Éditions Hortus by Vincent Genvrin, with whom he shares the experience of an apprenticeship with Jean Boyer. Lionel Avot was the guest on Gaëlle Le Gallic’s weekly radio programme on Sunday 27 February 2011. Jean Bizot Michel Bouvard Philippe Brandeis Damien Colcomb François Espinasse Rolande Falcinelli Rolande Falcinelli Rolande Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Rolande Falcinelli entered the Paris Conservatory in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle , Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , Simone Plé Caussade , Henri Büsser , and... Vincent Genvrin Juliette Grellety-Bosviel Jan Willem Jansen

Pavel Kohout Olivier Latry Emmanuel Le Divellec Philippe Lefebvre Jean-Pierre Leguay Véronique Le Guen Loïc Mallié Jesùs Martin Moro. After meeting Didier Maes at the 2007 congress of the French-speaking Federation of friends of the organ, from 20 to 23 December 2009 he recorded a selection of early and contemporary repertoire in homage to the Basque country on the organ of the church of Urrugne, shortly after the inauguration of the instrument on 9 October 2009. François Ménissier. In charge of the Silbermann organ of Saint Thomas in Strasbourg from 1989 to 2003, he recorded several organ pieces by Bach with Éditions Hortus in 2000. Daniel Meylan Louis Thiry

Piano

• François Lambret
• Bruno Robilliard
• Nicolas Stavy. His interpretation of ‘Four ballades op. 10’, ‘Third Sonata op. 5’ and ‘Theme and Variations in D minor’ by Johannes Brahms (Éditions Hortus, 2008) was halied by music critics.
• Isabelle Oehmichen

Organist-composers

Valéry Aubertin Laurent Carle Yves Castagnet Thierry Escaïch Thierry Escaich Thierry Escaich, born 8 May 1965 in Nogent-sur-Marne, is a French organist and composer.-Life:Born in 1965, Thierry Escaich studied organ, improvisation and composition at the Paris Conservatory , where he won 8 “first prizes” and where he has taught improvisation and composition since... , Victoires de la musique classique in 2003, 2006 and 2011 in the category Composers. Rolande Falcinelli Rolande Falcinelli Rolande Falcinelli was a French organist, pianist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Rolande Falcinelli entered the Paris Conservatory in 1932, where her teachers were noted pianist and pedagogue Isidor Philipp and Abel Estyle , Marcel Samuel-Rousseau , Simone Plé Caussade , Henri Büsser , and... Pierre Farago

Éric Lebrun Christophe Marchand Benoît Mernier Jacques Pichard Jean-Baptiste Robin