Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Performer: Romain Dayez, Jean-Paul Dessy
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Cypres
Catalogue: CYP0618
Release: 2023
Size: 482 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Anima – O nos peregrine sumus
02. Diabolus – Que est hec potestas
03. Humilitas – Ego cum meis sodalibus
04. Karitas – Ego Karitas
05. Victoria – Ego Victoria
06. Timor dei – Ego Timor dei
07. Obedientia – Ego lucida Obedientia
08. Amor celestis – Ego aurea porta
09. Disciplina – Ego sum amatrix
10. Pacientia – Ego sum columpna
11. Verecundia – Ego obtenebro
12. Castitas – O Virginitas
13. Contemptus mundi – Ego Contemptus Mundi
14. Fides – Ego Fides
15. Discretio – Ego Discretio
16. Misericordia – O quam amara est illa
17. Spes – Ego sum dulcis conspectrix
18. Innocentia – Fugite, oves
19. Anima – Nunc est michi necesse
20. Virtutes – O Anima fugitiva
21. Diabolus – Que es, aut unde venis
22. Humilitas – O Victoria
23. Virtutes – O Pater omnipotens
Soundfulness, the new collection of the Cypres label, is an invitation to plenitude through sounds, frequencies, vibrations and breath. Soundfulness creates a space for dialogue between musical cultures, at the crossroads of traditional, sacred and meditative music. Immediately accessible and sensitive, this music is like an inner journey: it opens our horizon, inspires us and connects us to our deepest roots. To listen to Soundfulness is to offer oneself a time filled with healing sounds, to salute the spirit and the force of nature and to open up to the meditative powers of sounds. Trust in the integrity of the musicians chosen to bring you into new sound rituals. *** Based on Hildegard von Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum (ca. 1151), an electro-medieval oratorio combining Gregorian chant, samplers, synthesizers and cello! Ad Lucem is an intimate and meditative contemporary oratorio for voice, cello and electronics, which takes us into the high spiritual spheres of the soul and invites us to immerse ourselves in an experience of transcendence. Of dramatic and liturgical essence, the original work takes up the story of a human Soul in the grip of doubt and the temptation of Evil, which invokes the divine Virtues to help it fight the Devil. These allegorical characters will take the floor in turn, detailing what makes them strong, and unite in a heavenly army. Jean-Paul Dessy and Romain Dayez bring to light the monodies and Latin texts through their own musical language.