Schola Aeterna – Chants à La Vierge

Ensemble Vocal Lausanne

Schola Aeterna – Chants à La Vierge
Schola Aeterna – Chants à La Vierge

Schola Aeterna – Chants à La Vierge

Ensemble Vocal Lausanne

Composers  Alain (Jehan) • Berthier (Paul) • Franck (César) • Ladmirault (Paul) • Ropartz (Joseph-Guy)

Genre  Church music

Format  CD

Release date  04 mars 2016

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Composers  Alain (Jehan) • Berthier (Paul) • Franck (César) • Ladmirault (Paul) • Ropartz (Joseph-Guy)

Genre  Church music

Format  CD

Release date  04 mars 2016

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, France saw the rise of a new style of religious music, the heir to a movement that had returned to compositional practices based on Renaissance polyphony and plainchant. The Schola Cantorum in Paris was one of the main centres for this innovative approach to setting sacred texts.
In this Catholic country, devotion to the Virgin inspired many works of a high standard. This CD presents a selection of pieces by three generations of French composers, from César Franck to Jehan Alain, that illustrates the striking aesthetic and spiritual renewal of the repertory for religious feasts, Marian in particular.

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