Release Date: 17 February 2017
Label: Atma Classique
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 722056275521
Genres: Classical
Description
Montreal's female vocal group Ensemble Scholastica makes its ATMA Classique recording debut with Ars elaboratio, a program of newly composed elaborations on medieval liturgical songs. The original songs were chosen from the medieval plainchant repertoire in homage to the group's favourite saints: Scholastica, champion of education; Cecilia, patron saint of music; Catherine of Alexandria, champion of justice and female wisdom; and Saint John the Baptist, patron to the ensemble's home province of Québec.
Through the medieval art of elaboration, in which singers improvise their own embellishments within existing plainchant, Ensemble Scholastica offers a new approach to the quest for authentic performance practise. Plainchant selections on this recording might include elaborated passages of 2, 3 or even 4-voice polyphony.
Yannick Nezet-Seguin; Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal
David Jalbert
David Jacques
Soloists; Orchestre classique de Montreal; Alain Trudel
Philip Chiu
Myriam Leblanc; Ensemble Mirabilia
Louise Bessette
Ensemble Caprice
Ensemble Scholastica
