Azahar La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion

• Alfonso X El Sabio (1221 - 1284): Cantigas de Santa Maria:
• 1 Santa Maria, strela do dia (Cantiga No. 100) (Vocal) 02:13
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377): Messe de Notre Dame:
• 2 I. Kyrie 04:54
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Messe:
• 3 I. Kyrie 03:00
• 4 II. Gloria 03:56
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377): Messe de Notre Dame:
• 5 II. Gloria 05:51
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Messe:
• 6 III. Credo 04:12
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377): Messe de Notre Dame:
• 7 III. Sanctus 04:37
• Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971): Messe:
• 8 IV. Sanctus 03:47
• 9 V. Agnus 03:43
• Guillaume de Machaut (1300 - 1377): Messe de Notre Dame:
• 10 IV. Ite missa est 02:57
• Alfonso X El Sabio (1221 - 1284): Cantigas de Santa Maria:
• 11 Quenas sas figuras da virgen partir (Cantiga No. 76) 02:06
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 12 Cantiga de los Reyes Magos 05:53
• Alfonso X El Sabio (1221 - 1284): Cantigas de Santa Maria:
• 13 Quen na virgen groriosa (Cantiga No. 256) 03:38
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 14 Cantiga del destierro 07:11
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 15 Tod aquel que pola virgen (Cantiga No. 212) 01:50
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 16 Cantiga de vela 03:50
• 17 Cantiga del azahar 05:32
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 18 Rosa das rosas (Cantiga No. 10) 04:03
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 19 Cantiga de la noche santa 03:26
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 20 Santa Maria, strela do dia (Cantiga No. 100) (Instrumental) 01:49
• Maurice Ohana (1913 - 1992): Cantigas:
• 21 Cantiga del nacimiento 03:50
• Total Runtime 01:22:18

Info for Azahar

After The Tempest (Alpha 208), its first recording on a Shakespearian theme, which was much admired (Diapason d’Or etc.), La Tempête presents ‘Azahar’ (orange blossom in Spanish), which contrasts and interweaves the polyphony of Machaut with the poetry of the Spanish cantigas and the century of Stravinsky and Ohana. Simon-Pierre Bestion, founder of the company La Tempête, tells us: ‘I like the idea of disorientating the listener between different historical periods. Stravinsky wrote his Mass after discovering Machaut’s setting, while Ohana’s Cantigas de Santa Maria allude to those of Alfonso the Wise and to folksong…  One can take extraordinary liberties with Machaut’s famous Mass: its music calls for a fairly sonorous, straight style of singing – like Corsican or Basque polyphony. I chose singers familiar with early music, powerful, direct voices, using little vibrato, voices that could also sing Stravinsky and Ohana. The orchestra was arranged in consorts for the early repertory, and in mixed desks for Ohana and Stravinsky. The chorus was placed all around in a circle, in a single row. I like to share that experience of feeling the sound physically.’

Claire Lefilliâtre, soprano
Anna Reinhold, mezzo-soprano
Francisco Manalich, tenor
Lisandro Abadie, baritone
La Tempête
Simon-Pierre Bestion, conductor

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Booklet for Azahar