The Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany @Le French May

Ensemble De Caelis will present the audience with a unique a capella performance from its album Le Livre d’Aliénor. Laurence Brisset (Artistic Director, mezzo-soprano), Estelle Nadau (soprano), Eugénie de Mey (soprano), Caroline Tarrit (mezzo-soprano), Marie-George Monet (alto) will pay tribute to two great female figures in medieval Christian history, Aliénor d’Aquitaine (1122-1204) and Aliénor de Bretagne (1275-1342), the 16th Abbess of Fontevraud, with a sacred and profane repertoire. The repertoire will start with monophonic and polyphonic creations derived from the Gradual from the Mass for the Vigil of the Assumption followed the “Chanson de Guillaume d’Aquitaine”, composed by Philippe Hersant, who was inspired by the poem Farai un vers de dreit nien by Guillaume IX, grandfather of d’Aliénor d’Aquitaine. There will also be pieces originally sung in priories of the Fontevrault order in England such as Amesbury Abbey presented in monophonic, polyphonic and contemporary styles.

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Programme
Jhesu Crist fill de Dieu viu Chanson de Guiraud Riquier (1254-1292)
Introït : Salve Sancta parens Fol 170v
Kyrie tropé : Rex virginum amator Deus Fol 23V
Gloria tropé Fol 24 et 24V
Repons: Benedicta et venerabilis es virgo… V/ Virgo dei… Fol 170V -171
Séquence : verbum bonum Fol 235-235V-236
Séquence : virga iesse humi David Fol 237
Comm. : Beata viscera Marie virginis. Fol 172
Motet : Ave Miles
Séquence : Res est admirabilis Fol 238-239
Motet: Humane-Deo gratias
Res glorios Guirault de Bornelh (1162-1199)
Chanson de Guillaume d’Aquitaine, Philippe Hersant, CREATION