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The Studio de la musique ancienne is celebrating its 51st season; The SMAM and musica intima of Vancouver jointly commissioned composer Andrew Balfour, of Cree ancestry, to create Missa Tekakwitha, The Seven Stones of Grandfather’s Prophecies, which evokes the tragic fate of Kateri Tekakwitha, who died at the age of 24.
This concert featuring the Studio de la musique ancienne de Montréal will blend European polyphonic music with Indigenous languages, bringing together legendary figures of the First Nations, Marian symbols, miracles, natural wonders, and other profound upheavals. Missa Tekakwitha will be performed alongside the remarkable Missa Et ecce terræ motus by Antoine Brumel.
This concert is presented as part of Le Festival de la Voix
Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)
Motet à six voix Virgo Prudentissima
(Liber selectarum cantionum, Augsburg, 1520)
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450-1521)
Motet à 6 voix O Virgo Virginum
Hildegard von Bingen (c. 1098-1179)
Antienne O Virtus Sapientiae
Roland de Lassus (c. 1532-1594)
Motet à 6 voix Ave Regina Coelorum, LV 1105
(Magnum Opus Musicum, Munich, 1604)
Roland de Lassus
Motets à 4 voix Prophetiae Sibyllarum, extraits
—-Carmina Chromatico, LV 1048
—-Sibylla Persica, LV 1049
—-Sibylla Libyca, LV 1050
—-Sibylla Delphica, LV 1051
Roland de Lassus
Motet à 8 voix Alma Redemptoris Mater
(Magnum Opus Musicum, Munich, 1604)
Antoine Brumel (c. 1460-1513)
Gloria de la Messe à 12 voix Et ecce terræ motus
PAUSE
Andrew Balfour (né en 1967)
Praeter rerum serium, d’après le motet de Josquin des Prez
Andrew Balfour
Création mondiale – Commande du SMAM et musica intima
Missa Tekakwitha : Les Sept Rochers des prophéties du grand-père
1. énska (un)
2. tékeni (deux)
3. áhsen (trois)
4. kaié:ri (quatre)
5. wisk (cinq)
6. ià:ia’k (six)
7. tsá:ta (sept)
Johannes Ockeghem (vers 1410-1497), arr. Andrew Balfour
Nia:wen Rawenni:io (Canon Deo Gratias)
Élodie Bouchard, Rebecca Dowd Lekx, Len Torrie, Marie Magistry, sopranos
Charlotte Cumberbirch, Isabella Cuminato, Josée Lalonde, Marie-Andrée Mathieu, altos
Andrew Balfour, Chenuka Lakwijaya, Michiel Schrey, Arthur Tanguay-Labrosse, tenors
Pierre-Etienne Bergeron, John Giffen, Emanuel Lebel, Kevin Marimbu, basses
Andrew McAnerney, conductor