Programme
Ecce tu pulchra es
Nicolas Formé (1567-1638)
Tristis est anima mea
Pierre Robert (1618-1699)
Encre simulacre
Adrien Trybucki (1993)
Commissioned by Ircam-Centre Pompidou & the CMBV, premiered in 2025
Motet pour les trépassés H.311
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Mass for Double Chorus
Frank Martin (1890-1974)
For this production devised by Adrien Trybucki, the CMBV choirs Les Pages & Les Chantres under Fabien Armengaud and Clément Buonomo offer an outstanding panorama of works for double choir across the centuries, as part of the final chapter of the CMBV’s partnership with Ircam.
Like Janus, the doublel-faced Roman god, turning towards both the past and the future, the CMBV has joined forces with Ircam, supported by the French Ministry of Culture, to commission four new works for its choir school from four young composers from across Europe.
This third season features music by French composer Adrien Trybucki, set to a text by Jacques Roubaud, entitled La maladie de l’âme, for double choir a capella and two conductors. As such, Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Motet pour les Trépassés, subtitled Plaintes des âmes du purgatoire, has hints of Dante’s Enfer de la Divine Comédie. Creating common threads in pieces for double choir, the programme also offers works by Nicolas Formé, Louis XIII ‘s favourite composer, and Pierre Robert, Louis XIV’s assistant music master at the Royal Chapel. It closes with the Mass for Double Chorus by Frank Martin, composed between 1922 and 1926, another illustration of this theme.
So today, across the centuries, we reach back to the past.
