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Early Music
The Heavenly Banquet – Missa Tournai
Plainsong and the polyphonic Missa Tournai,
anonymous works from the
13th and 14th centuries.
Women in love
Portraits of women in music.
French works from the 13th and 14th centuries.
Duce Creature
Music from the School of Notre-Dame de Paris
that was performed across
the Channel in the 13th century.
Orbis: English music of the 15th century
English polyphonic music from the first half of the 15th century.
The
birth of a school of composition that would have
a lasting influence
on the entire continent of Europe.
Early and contemporary music
A desert meditation
The theme of the desert links mediaeval music
with contemporary poetry
and music.
Works by Jonathan Bell, Lorand Gaspar and anonymous composers.
Ballads and songs
An unusual and exciting encounter between
pioneering
composers of the
14th and the 21st centuries.
Works by Philippe de Vitry, Michaël
Levinas and Valère Novarina.
Spain yesterday and today
A musical voyage through Spain from the 14th to the 21st centuries.
Music from the Las Huelgas Codex, Francisco Guerrero and Enrique
Muñoz.
The passage from one world to another
Thierry Machuel’s Invisible Kingdom (2004)
composed for De Caelis
/ English polyphonic works of the 15th century.
A parliament of birds
A composition by Thierry Escaich on the theme
of birds is linked with
extracts from early French music.
