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Notre-Dame de Paris
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How vocal Polyphony was thriving on the Île de la Cité
Anonymous (late 12th century)
Laudes Regiae
Perotinus (12th 7 13th century)
Viderunt omnes – Organum in four parts
Anonymous (from about 1350)
D’ardant desir / Se fus d’amer / Nigra est –
Motet in three parts with three texts
Antoine Brumel (from about 1460-1520)
Et ecce terrae motus – Mass in 12 parts
HUELGAS ENSEMBLE
Paul Van Nevel, musical director
The heart of Paris beats on an island in the middle of the River Seine. The Cathedral of Notre-Dame stood on the island like a rock for almost 8oo years. It only took one night to almost destroy it. The time of its construction coincides with the life of a certain Petronius who cofounded a singing school. In late medieval times it served as foundation for constructing vocal cathedrals by bold architects such as Antoine Brumel who did just this with his 40-minute mass: time becomes space. The Huelgas Ensemble lives and embodies this music. Throughout its 50-year history it has been described and celebrated with each and every positive superlative imaginable and deservedly so.
