choir of the room the elements – joël suhubiette
ancient & modern monodies & polyphonies in Arabic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac
the fingerprint ED13235 – 3760002130231
release October 13, 2012
digipack bilingual booklet 44 pages total duration: 60’52
For download on Qobuz
PRESENTATION
Joel Suhubiette, at the head of the chamber choir les elements, proposes an event, on stage as on record: a program entirely dedicated to the Mediterranean, sung in five languages (Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Latin and Ancient Greek) and traversing eight centuries of sacred music. Beyond cultures and religions, the repertoire offers an intimate musical journey, monodies in polyphonies, along Mediterranean shores and imaginaries.From various expressions of monotheistic fervor to ancient liturgical fevers, these pages cross languages, countries and eras: the medieval Catalonia of the Vermeil Book of Monserrat (14th century), Italy and Spain from the Renaissance to the beginning of the Baroque period (Gesualdo, Victoria), Salomone Rossi’s 17th-century Jewish Lombardy, Lotti’s eighteenth-century Venice, Hallaj’s Arabic mysticism (reading of Moultaka), Ancient Greece dreamed by Alexandros Markeas (from Euripides Bacchantes) and the return of Moultaka to the Syriac language of the Gospel (inspired by the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross). For this “ecumenical” cruise, Joël Suhubiette embarks, with his customary refinement and refinement, the carnal voices of the men and women of the chamber choir elements to sing the pain and the beauty, the asceticism and the profusion of the expression of the feeling of the sacred.
PROGRAMME
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
Ave Maria latin
Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
O your omnes latin
Zad Moultaka (born in 1967)
Arabic MotherLama Sabaqtani Syriac (The Last Seven Words of Christ)
Salomone Rossi (1570-1630)
Barechu Hebrew
Kaddish Hebrew
Alexandros Markeas (born 1965)
Three fragments of ancient Greek Bacchantes
1. O vos omnes Répons des Ténèbres du Samedi Saint Carlo Gesualdo (1560-1613) latin 4’22
2. Ave Maria Three Latin Prayers Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) latin 3’39
3. O vos omnes Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) latin 4’32
4. Mèn èntè Zad Moultaka (1967) sur un poème d’Hallaj arabe 4’02
5. Barechu Salomone Rossi (1570-1630) hébreu 2’52
6. Jerusalem, Surge Gesualdo (1560 O vos omnes Répons des Ténèbres du Samedi Saint Carlo (1560-1613) Latin 4’24
7-9. Three fragments of Bacchantes Alexandros Markeas (1965) Ancient Greek Euripides 13’42
10. O Virgo splendes Llibre vermell of Montserrat (anonymous 14th century) latin 2’20
11. Kaddish Salomone Rossi (1570-1630) Hebrew 3’39
12. Aestimatus sum Answers of the Darkness of Saturday Saint Carlo Gesualdo Latin 3’42
13. Crucifixus Antonio Lotti (1665-1740) Latin 3’14
14. Lama Sabaqtani Zad Moultaka (1967) The Seven Words of the Syriac Christ 10’15
NEWSPAPER
Res Musica, THE SPIRITUAL SOURCES OF THE MARE NOSTRUM, November 7, 2011 by Alain Huc de Vaubert
L’Orient Le Jour, Méditerranée sacrée et sacrée méditerranéeSacred Mediterranean Mediterranean, Edgar Davidian
Musical Director : Joël Suhubiette
Artistic direction : Jean-Marc Aymes, Zad Moultaka
Son : Benjamin Maumus, GMEA National Center for music creation d’Albi-Tarn
Notes : Thierry Fabre, Jean-Marc Aymes, Joël Suhubiette, Catherine Peillon
Translations by John Tyler Tuttle and DR
Production : Fingerprint / Elements /GMEA
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Editorial line, photographs & graphic design: Catherine Peillon © L’empreinte digitale
