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Ross Allen knows music. Mainly new but plenty of old. The broadest range of music that moves dance floors from across the era’s and across the planet. On his regular Foundation Music Specials he invites guests to share their histories and seminal tracks…

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The legend that is Andy Votel strolls into our Manchester studio once a month to play a portion of his record collection selected at random.

Ensemble Organum

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Ensemble Organum on 22 September 2023. Ensemble Organum has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 10 episodes and was first played on 23 January 2019.

Founded by Marcel Pérès in 1982 at the Abbey of Senanque, and established at the Foundation Royaumont near Paris since 1984, Ensemble Organum has made the revival of the vocal and instrumental art practised at different periods of the Middle Ages its vocation. The Ensemble's repertoire extends from the earliest sources known (Old-Roman, Gallican and Carolingian chant) to the 18th century, and is composed largely of music intended for liturgy. Ensemble Organum, in its concerts and recordings for the Harmonia Mundi label, ensures the realization and propagation of the research undertaken in the field of medieval music at the Foundation Royaumont in the framework of the Atelier de Recherche et d'Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales (A.R.I.M.M.), of which Marcel Pérès is the director. Each year, the efforts of the singers are focused on several specific research programs, in conjunction with musicologists and historians both from France and abroad (including the U.S.). A particular manuscript or certain aspects of the repertory are studied in depth. Thus in contact with the most recent historical and musicological discoveries, the Ensemble is constantly expanding its repertory. Ensemble Organum also pays particular attention to still-existent oral traditions, to which it brings a completely new approach. The results of its research programs are presented in concert tours in France and abroad, and in its recordings. Each of Ensemble Organum's recordings is an illustration of its thoroughly historical and at the same time experimental approaches, which are a conjunction of a study of the musical and theoretical sources and the practice of oral traditions (Byzantine chant and Syriac chant, for example) which, from a historical point of view, were originally linked to the Western repertories.

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Ensemble Organum

NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Ensemble Organum on 22 September 2023. Ensemble Organum has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 10 episodes and was first played on 23 January 2019.

Founded by Marcel Pérès in 1982 at the Abbey of Senanque, and established at the Foundation Royaumont near Paris since 1984, Ensemble Organum has made the revival of the vocal and instrumental art practised at different periods of the Middle Ages its vocation. The Ensemble's repertoire extends from the earliest sources known (Old-Roman, Gallican and Carolingian chant) to the 18th century, and is composed largely of music intended for liturgy. Ensemble Organum, in its concerts and recordings for the Harmonia Mundi label, ensures the realization and propagation of the research undertaken in the field of medieval music at the Foundation Royaumont in the framework of the Atelier de Recherche et d'Interprétation des Musiques Médiévales (A.R.I.M.M.), of which Marcel Pérès is the director. Each year, the efforts of the singers are focused on several specific research programs, in conjunction with musicologists and historians both from France and abroad (including the U.S.). A particular manuscript or certain aspects of the repertory are studied in depth. Thus in contact with the most recent historical and musicological discoveries, the Ensemble is constantly expanding its repertory. Ensemble Organum also pays particular attention to still-existent oral traditions, to which it brings a completely new approach. The results of its research programs are presented in concert tours in France and abroad, and in its recordings. Each of Ensemble Organum's recordings is an illustration of its thoroughly historical and at the same time experimental approaches, which are a conjunction of a study of the musical and theoretical sources and the practice of oral traditions (Byzantine chant and Syriac chant, for example) which, from a historical point of view, were originally linked to the Western repertories.

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St Jean Baptiste: Ad Missam In Die
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
harmonia mundi France, harmonia mundi1992
Antienne : Otin To Stauron (A) / O Quando In Cruce (P)
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi0
Magnificat Primi Toni
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès, Palestrina, La Chapelle Royale
Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi1992
Cantique Benedicite Omnia Opera
Hildegard Von Bingen, Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi France1997
Messe de Notre Dame, Liturgie: Messe De La Purification De La Vierge (2 Février)
Guillaume de Machaut, Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi, Harmonia Mundi France1996
Cistercian Chant Responsories of Matins for the Feast of St Bernard
Ensemble Organum, Anonymous 4, Theatre Of Voices, Marcel Pérès, Paul Hillier
Harmonia Mundi2016
Cantus: Virga Lesse Floruit
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi1993
Alleluia: Nigra Sum Sed Formosa
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi France, Harmonia Mundi1993
Psalmellus : « Tui Sunt Celi Et Terra » (Tutti, Soliste 2)
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi France2011
Gloria In Excelsis Deo
Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi1994

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