Composer: Juan de Anchieta, Pedro de Escobar, Antoine de Févin, Olivier Greif, Heinrich Isaac, Pierre de Manchicourt, Marbrianus de Orto, Marcel Pérès, Giacinto Scelsi, Ludwig Senfl, John Tavener
Performer: La Tempête
Conductor: Simon-Pierre Bestion
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Alpha
Catalogue: ALPHA786
Release: 2022
Size: 1.35 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Manchicourt: Messe de requiem: Introït
02. Isaac: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam?
03. Greif: Requiem Op. 358: Requiem
04. Senfl: Missa Paschalis: Kyrie
05. anon.: Graduel vieux-romain de Santa Cecilia de Trastevere: Kyrie pour la Nativité
06. Scelsi: Tre canti sacri: Requiem
07. Pérès: Missa ex tempore: Gloria
08. anon.: Antiphonaire ambrosien du British Museum: Dixit Dominus
09. Escobar: Messe de requiem: Sanctus
10. Orto: Lamentationes hieremiae prophetae: Guimel
11. Févin: Requiem: Agnus
12. Anchieta: Libera me, Domine
13. Tavener: Song for Athene
Hypnos, God of Sleep.
Simon-Pierre Bestion’s recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, “the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while supporting the feelings of all who witness it. Making use of all the freedom that this act of re-creation afforded me, I constructed this programme without boundaries between repertories or different musical aesthetics – from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance to the twentieth century – selecting the works for their captivating musical material, their hypnotic and meditative dimension”.
Intonations from Byzantine chant sit alongside guttural voices in Giacinto Scelsi and the English vocal style of John Tavener; Franco-Flemish Renaissance polyphony encounters the influences of eastern or western spiritual traditions present in the contemporary works