Length: approximately 1hour 10 minutes
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Janus 2025
The Pages and Chantres from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles present a programme of works for double choir, marking the final chapter in their collaboration with IRCAM. Adrien Trybucki’s La Maladie de l'âme, set to a text by Jacques Roubaud, is written for double choir a cappella and requires two conductors. Charpentier’s Motet pour les trépassés, subtitled Plaintes des âmes du purgatoire, echoes Dante’s visions of the afterlife, while pieces by Pierre Robert and Henri Du Mont, former sous-maîtres at the Chapelle Royale, complete this journey through time—where centuries of choral tradition meet the present.
Ondine Lacorne-Hébrard viole de gambe
Haruna Nakaie positive organ
The Pages and the Chantres from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Fabien Armengaud, Clément Buonomo conductor
João Svidzinski IRCAM electronics
Jérémie Bourgogne IRCAM sound diffusion
Henri Du Mont Litanies de la Vierge (excerpts from Meslanges) (1657)
Frank MartinMesse pour double chœur (extraits, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo)
Louis CheinMissa pro defunctis (extraits, Sanctus, Agnus, Post-communion) (1690)
Pierre Robert Tristis est anima mea
Adrien Trybucki Encre simulacre, premiere 2025
Commissioned by IRCAM-Centre Pompidou and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Marc-AntoineCharpentier Motet pour les trépassés (H. 311)
Salve Regina à trois choeurs H.24
Screening of the Janus Documentary on the Occasion of CMBV’s Journée découverte – June 14
Le troisième monde : rencontre entre musique baroque et électronique (lit. The Third World: A Meeting of Baroque and Electronic Music)
Saturday, June 14, 5:00 PM
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles, as part of the city’s Mois Molière festival
Duration: 40-minute screening & 20-minute discussion
Free admission, open to all
Discover a unique musical world where Baroque and electronic music intersect and transform! This documentary takes you inside the creative process of Jug Marković, Justina Repečkaitė, Ariadna Alsina Tarrés, and Adrien Trybucki, composers from IRCAM, who have created new works for the Pages and Chantres choir of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles. Under the musical direction of Fabien Armengaud and Clément Buonomo, these compositions push the boundaries between two seemingly contrasting traditions. This immersive experience offers insight into Janus, patrimoine et création (lit. Janus, Heritage and Creation), a project developed by CMBV and IRCAM with the support of the French Ministry of Culture—leading up to the premiere of Adrien Trybucki’s Encre Simulacre at the Royal Chapel on June 19.
Post-Screening Discussion
Continue the experience with an exclusive conversation featuring: Fabien Armengaud – Artistic & Musical Director of the Maîtrise du CMBV and Clément Buonomo – Associate Artistic Director of the Maîtrise du CMBV
A documentary by Laure Bourru / Produced by Melocoton Films.
