Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Shiruku portrays the encounter between Canticum Novum and three traditional Japanese musicians. From this archipelago of contrasts and cultures, they create a shared history around the emblematic Silk Road. From Venice to Nara, via Constantinople, discover the ineffable links that unite them.

A laureate of the EEEMERGING+ program, the Cantoría ensemble present their own interpretation of the famous Ensaladas by Mateo Flecha "El Viejo". For their first recording with Ambronay Editions, these four young singers use their passion and enthusiasm to make us rediscover some masterpieces of the Spanish Renaissance. Freshness, expressiveness and proximity have become the distinctive features of Cantoría, a vocal group specializing in the performance of Iberian Renaissance polyphony, directed by Jorge Losana. Its aim is to revalue and find new ways of approaching the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire in order to bring it closer to today's audiences.

Emmanuel Bardon and his fellow musicians are tireless explorers, reviving the wonders of the poetic, literary and musical history of one of the oldest cities in the world: Aleppo. An enchanting journey at the crossroads of traditional repertoires and Canticum Novum’s cosmopolitan identity. Canticum Novum is an ensemble of early and world music created by Emmanuel Bardon in 1996. Established in Saint-Etienne, Canticum Novum has a passion for the interpretation and the transmission of the most beautiful repertoires of early music, especially those that link the music of western Europe (Spain, France, Italy etc.) with that of the Mediterranean basin. The latter being enriched with the influence of both the Christian world and the Orient (which has been molded by a Jewish and Moorish heredity).

The three singers-explorers of the ensemble Les Itinérantes invite us on an exhilarating journey through the heart of winter. The program of this release includes popular and traditional songs from the whole world, whose a cappella interpretation warms the soul and the senses. The story of Les Itinérantes begins in January 2017, Paris, France. Three women who met through their musical comedy training sing together for the first time for what was supposed to be "One or two shows just like that" and very quickly switched to "Ok, we have to continue together!" Three musicians with varied influences: from old music (Pauline) to jazz and song (Manon) through world music (Elodie)… who have decided not to choose and to mix everything together. There you have it, Les Itinérantes are born: an a cappella trio whose repertoire currently covers 11 musical styles, 9 centuries and 19 languages.

Inspiration, energy and freedom compose the alluring menu of La Vaghezza's very first opus. The five instrumentalists of the young Italian ensemble, recent winners of the EEEMERGING+ scheme, sculpt one by one these magnificent pieces of 17th century Italy, like jewels to be (re)discovered. La Vaghezza is a trio sonata ensemble playing music from the 17th and early 18th Centuries, with a special interest in the unpredictability, extravagance, originality and freedom found in 17th Century Italian music. Their musical interpretations are historically informed, but always guided foremost by their common sensibility as an ensemble and their search for ‘La Vaghezza’, an aesthetic concept which describes a beauty impossible to understand or grasp: like smoke, something calling to be touched yet remaining intangible.

Drawing from the famous Codex Caioni, a collection of 17th century music and, from the repertoire of traditional Hungarian ballads, this second recording by the PRISMA ensemble enhances the remarkable richness of cultural and musical exchanges between Italy and Hungary. PRISMA unites four young musicians in a joint search for particularly expressive, bizarre, colorful music from the 16th and 17th centuries. The "very lively art of interpretation combined with technical perfection and tonal beauty makes every phrase seem as if it was just being thought up", writes the Göttinger Tageblatt about a concert by the quartet in the festival series. "Exceptional. Exciting. Cannot be categorized. And unbelievably good." (Kreiszeeitung Wesermarsch)

Under the direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, and in the company of the cream of young French singers (Judith Van Wanroij, Mathias Vidal, Chantal Santon, Thomas Dollie etc), the ensemble Les Surprises offers us the world premiere recording of Isse, a heroic pastoral by Andre Cardinal Destouches, the composer who was also a musketeer. Isse borrows its subject from Book VI of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Its poet, Antoine Houdar de La Motte, took pains to point out the fact in the epigraph that appeared at the head of each edition of the libretto until 1756: “Just as Apollo in the guise of a shepherd deceived Isse, daughter of Macareus.” Ensemble Les Surprises is a flexibly sized Baroque ensemble, founded in 2010 by the viol player Juliette Guignard and the organist and harpsichordist Louis-Noel Bestion de Camboulas. Les Surprises has made five recordings for the Ambronay Editions label, all of which have received high praise from the national and international press.

With Al-Basma - imprint in Arabic-, Canticum Novum continues at Ambronay Editions its journey to the heart of the medieval Iberian Peninsula. Magnificent Arab-Andalusian songs side by side with the Codex of Montpellier and the Cantigas de Santa Maria for the most vibrant tribute to the three cultures of Al-Andalus.