JANUS 2025 D'HIER ET D'AUJOURD'HUI

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JANUS 2025 OF PAST AND PRESENT

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Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Fabien Armengaud and Clément Buonomo Conductor
Ondine Lacorne-Hébrard Viol da gamba
Haruna Nakaie Organ
João Svidzinski Ircam electronics
Jérémie Bourgogne Sound diffusion Ircam

Présentation

With a new work by Adrien Trybucki, the Pages and Singers of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, conducted by Fabien Armengaud and Clément Buonomo, offer a panorama of double-choir works from across the centuries, to mark the new partnership between the CMBV and Ircam.

In the image of Janus, the Roman god with two faces, one loking towards the past and the other towards the future, the CMBV has joined forces with Ircam, with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, to commission four new works from four young European composers for its Choir.

This third season sees the creation of a new work by French composer Adrien Trybucki, based on a text by Jacques Roubaud : La Maladie de l’âme (The Sickness of the Soul), for double-choir a capella and double direction. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Motet for the Dead, subtitled Laments of the Souls in Purgatory, is somewhat reminiscent of the circles of Hell in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Weaving a continuous thread through the double-choir theme, this programme will also feature works by Henry du Mont and Pierre Robert. Finally, Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Choir, composed between 1922 and 1926, will further explore this theme.

A meeting in the here and now, spanning the centuries from past to present.

Co-produced by the Royal Opera / Château de Versailles Spectacles and the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Co-produced by Ircam-Centre Pompidou / Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, as part of the programme “Janus, patrimoine et création” (“Janus : Heritage and Creation”), support of the Ministry of Culture.

With the support of the Continuum project, ICC France 2030 programme and Sacem.

The scores by Henry Du Mont, Pierre Robert, and Marc-Antoine Charpentier are published by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles.

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Programme

Henri Du Mont (1610-1684)

Litanies of the Virgin extracted from Les Meslanges.

Frank Martin (1890-1974)

Mass for double choir – extracts : Kyrie, Gloria, Credo

Louis Chein (1637-1694)
Missa pro defunctis – extracts : Sanctus, Agnus

Pierre Robert (1618-1699)

Tristis est anima mea

Adrien Trybucki (né en 1993)
Encre simulacre
Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, with the support of Sacem creation in 2025 based on La maladie de l’âme by Jacques Roubaud, published in La pluralité des mondes by Lewis, Gallimard editions.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

Motet for the Dead H.311
Salve Regina for Three Choirs H.24

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Robert – Grands Motets sur le Cantique des Cantiques

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Singularly sensual, deeply moving, the Song of Songs lifts the souls of the lovers into heavens where perfect and divine love reigns supreme – it is quite logical that this story was transcribed into Grands Motets, praising the virtues of total devotion for the glory of God… and the King!

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The Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles

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