O SIDERA Ensemble Irini & Lila Hajosi

• Roland de Lassus (1532 - 1594): Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060:
• 1 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Carmina Chromatico, LV 1048 01:02
• 2 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Persica, LV 1049 01:48
• 3 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Lybica, LV 1050 02:00
• 4 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Delphica, LV 1051 01:47
• Anonymous:
• 5 Anonymous: Liturgie de Saint Jean Chrysostome: Cheruvikon, Hymne des Chérubins 06:41
• Roland de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060:
• 6 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Cimmeria, LV 1052 01:36
• 7 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Samia, LV 1053 01:26
• 8 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Cumana, LV 1054 01:39
• 9 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Hellespontiaca, LV 1055 01:30
• 10 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Phrygia, LV 1056 01:24
• Anonymous:
• 11 Anonymous: Agni Parthene 04:57
• Roland de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060:
• 12 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Europea, LV 1057 01:34
• 13 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Tiburtina, LV 1058 01:38
• Anonymous:
• 14 Anonymous: l'Acathiste à la Mère de Dieu: Gnosin agnoston gnonai 05:11
• 15 Anonymous: Liturgie de Constantinople: Polyeleos, Psaumes 134-135 05:16
• Roland de Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060:
• 16 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Erythrea, LV 1059 01:28
• 17 Lassus: Prophetiae Sibyllarum, LV 1048-1060: Sibylla Agrippa, LV 1060 02:04
• Total Runtime 43:01

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Lassos zwölfteiliger Motettenzyklus Prophetiae Sibyllarum aus den 1550er Jahren gehört zu den faszinierendsten Werken der Spätrenaissance. Er beruht auf zwölf antiken Texten, die seit dem Mittelalter als vorchristliche Prophezeiungen der sogenannten Sibyllen ausgelegt wurden, welche die Ankunft Christi verkünden würden. Michelangelo hat diese Sybillen in der Sixtinischen Kapelle gemalt, wo Orlando di Lasso sie während seiner römischen Zeit kennengelernt haben könnte. Er vertonte die Texte in einem kühnen Stil, der an Gesualdos Madrigale erinnert. Das Ensemble Irini unter der Leitung von Lila Hajosi stellt die Renaissance-Motetten neben Stücke aus der byzantinischen Liturgie.

Eulalia Fantova, Mezzosopran
Julie Azoulay, Alt
Benoit-Joseph Meier, Tenor
Guglielmo Buonsanti, Bass
Alessandro Ravasio, Bass
Ensemble Irini
Lila Hajosi, Leitung

The Irini ensemble
founded in 2015 by Lila Hajosi, is a polymorphic vocal ensemble favoring a capella work, resolved to create “links which set free” between time and musical areas. It’s journey goes from the European Middle Ages to Byzantine music, to contemporanean music (composer Zad Moultaka created Quel mystère que tu aies un corps for Irini in 2018 and Casus Ade in 2022), from the banks of the Fertile Crescent to the court of Bavaria via Constantinople. Laureate of the Cité de la Voix de Vézelay, the ensemble is invited to prestigious festivals such as the Festival de Radiofrance Montpellier, Sacred Arts of Perpignan and Evron, Voix et Routes Romanes, Sinfonia en Périgord, and those of the Abbey of Sylvanès or Mont St Michel. Its first female trio program "Maria Nostra" gave birth in 2018 to Irini’s first album recorded at the Cité de la Voix and was awarded by a "Choc" of Classica magazine. Committed in promoting early music and appropriating repertoires that are but little represented, it is towards Christian Mysticism that the Irini ensemble turns with “O Sidera”, through the figures of the Sibyls, the Cherubim, the Mystery of the Incarnation, around the divine “Great Beyond”, where reason is lost and where spirit and music take the paths of the dream. This mixed vocal quintet program puts the Prophecies of the Sibyls by Roland de Lassus into perspective with extracts from the Byzantine liturgy.

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