Mysterii
Triptych of 17th-century and contemporary sacred music
The triptych Mysterii resonates in the alchemical impulse of which Alkymia makes its Quintessence. Care in balancing the doses of known and new elements, refinement in the animation of the works, auditory and visual immersion in a spectrum of sound, shadow, and light, in the vitalization of this inexorable celebration of renewal, of the spiritual cycle...
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Mysterii Paschalis
Music for the Easter Season
Mysterii Paschalis is the first part of a triptych of 17th-century sacred music and contemporary creation. An evocation of the mysteries that celebrate life, the springtime of the soul, and the Easter season, prayers imbued with tonal and atonal melodies, breathless polyphonies, and polychoral exaltations.
In the sound material of the motets and villancicos of the 17th century for double choir and continuo, the music of the composer Bertrand Plé is interwoven through processes that disintegrate and reintegrate pre-Baroque writing.
Like religious festivities imbued with pagan traditions, renewal is celebrated here. The transformation of ancient music into contemporary and vice versa, reflects the cyclical journey of human calendars. Thus, the counterpoint becomes heterogeneous, then noisy, then distinct again, and finally, brilliant.
Mysterii Gaudiosa
Music for the Advent and Christmas Seasons
The second part of the sacred triptych is Mysterii Gaudiosa, a musical mirror of the joyful times of Advent and Christmas.
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Introducing these grand celebrations solemnly year after year, the « Antiphons O » for the Advent season develop by repeating themselves, like a mantra or a shamanic prayer. Set to music by Marc Antoine Charpentier in the 17th century, they are reinterpreted in Bertrand Plé's Seven Antiphonae Majores. The texts systematically begin with the interjection "O" and contain a first part evoking ancient scriptures and a second part in the form of a litany. They respond in very few words, the ardent supplications through the acrostic « Ero Cras » (tomorrow I will be there).
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The peculiarities related to the French repertoire are used in favor of contemporary music, bringing elements that convey a more delicate fusion, a gentle alchemy that reveals the timeless, superimposing (inevitably) past and modernity.
Mysterii Gloriosa
Music for the Pentecost Season
Coming soon...
