Organ
SKU:
FZ.50529
Vocal
Ensemble Ad Limina.
Composed by Gaspard
Corrette. Edited by Regis
Allard. Book and CD.
Published by Anne Fuzeau
Productions - France
(FZ.50529).
12.5 x 14
cm inches.
Anne
Fuzeau Classique propose
to discover our
facsimiles' music in CD.
Regis Allard, historical
organ of Saint Michel de
Bolbec (Calvados). Mass
in the 8th tone for organ
- Gaspard Corrette.
Processional of the Royal
Abbey of Chelles -
Guillaume Gabriel Nivers.
Romano-Monasticum Gradual
- Guillaume Gabriel
Nivers. Divine Office for
use by the Ursuline
Ladies of Dijon - Charles
Derey. Improvised verses
on the organ, Regis
Alard.
Alternating
with Nivers's 'musical
plainchant', Corrette's
Mass sounds like a homage
of the organ to itself,
as it gracefully takes on
the role of preacher of
the Divine Cult.
Regis Allard was
trained by Andre Isoir
and Michel Chapuis (for
several years he had
private lessons with the
latter) as well as at the
Schola Cantorum in Paris,
where he graduated. He
devotes himself
exclusively to the
interpretation of early
music and participates in
numerous events centred
on historic instruments
in France, Spain, Holland
and northern Germany. He
was a prize winner in the
International Competition
of French Music in
Toulouse. His first disk,
with pieces by Heinrich
Scheidemann on the Arp
Schnitger organ in the
Stade church in northern
Germany, received a Choc
from Le Monde de la
Musique. His latest
recording, J. S. Bach's
Art of the Fugue under
the Hortus label
performed on the new
instrument of the church
Saint Louis en l'isle in
Paris, received critical
praise.
Ad Limina
This group of women
cantors, all trained in
the Conservatory,
themselves music
teachers, choir
directors, soloists, come
from either side of the
French-Swiss border,
whence the name Ad
Limina, which means 'at
the border'.
This
ensemble pursues a novel
exploration of the paths
of religious music, from
the baroque period to our
day, with emphasis on
Gregorian plainchant and
European music from the
19th century to
contemporary
creation.
