Saturday, 31 July 2010
A stunning Kyrie Cunctipotens
Via the excellent messainlatino.it, this video shows the schola Exsurge Domine, a young group of singers who got together to provide the music for the usus antiquior Mass celebrated every Sunday and Holyday at the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Cagliari by Monsignor Dante Usai.
Their style recovers some of the connection between the western and byzantine traditions of chant and reminds me of the schola which sang at the Masses I celebrated in Estonia last year. Here they are rehearsing the singing of Kyrie "Cunctipotens" of Mass IV.
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u use 2 many big words, for moi
Interesting style. Thanks for the link? Do you by any chance know of any recordings in this style, Father?
I am not an expert on recordings but someone else may be able to answer here...
Pity that the conductor kept the second singer from the left, hidden most of the time. They have real talent and I enjoyed it very much.
JARay
Father, I got an answer from a helpful person by the name of Chris, who kindly took the time to go over to my blog to post. He is not able to post her due to not having an account, so I'm reposting the relevant information as it might be of interest to yourself or your readers:
"That’s a style called Organum and my favorite singer’s of it are Ensemble Organum conducted by Marcel Perez. They are on iTunes and that particular Kyrie is exactly the same as the one they sing on the album Ecole Notre Dame: Messe Du Jour De Noël. That’s not their best album (the kyrie is the best song by far) but their chants of the templars is amazing! It’s on youtube as well:
Crucem Sanctum – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEXNKDVs8Sw
Media Vita in Morte Sumus is not on their, but it’s my favorite chant by them. I love, love love this style so I simply had to answer your question..hopefully you can spread the word to Father Finigan, but if not oh well!"
Beautiful. Many thanks, Fr.
Ensemble Organum under Marcel Peres are the go to guys on this very engaging style of chant - this version of Kyrie Cunctipotens can be found on thier recording of the mass for Christmas Day.
They've done a lot of work on various medieval styles of chant that are well worth listening to.
Oh yes. I like this. A lot! The ison is straightforward enough. If we could get people with the courage to sing it, (& that's easier said than done) I'd love to do this in York & elsewhere. I'll have to check, when I have more time to see if similar arrangements exist for the rest of the Mass.
I'll add my endorsement concerning Marcel Peres' recordings with the "Ensemble Organum"; they've provided a wonderful survey of many of the ancient and regional chant forms.
And Mike F: come on then - let's do it!
I have heard it like that before. The use of the drone is stunning. I thought the bloke doing the initial chant was a little flat and he seemed to be running out of breath...but nevertheless an impressive display.
I just had a message from Enrico Correggia on Facebook. He tells me that when that recording was made, they were very very tired, so that the breathing and intonation are far from perfect. (He agreed that he was literally breathless!)
Bear in mind too, that this was just an "open rehearsal."
They are hoping to do some other videos soon.
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