Ensemble Antiphona

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Ens Antiphona

Created in 1996 by Rolandas Muleika, its artistic director, the Antiphona Ensemble promotes a vast vocal repertoire and endeavours to (re)discover some forsaken though remarkable works dating back from the Gregorian period up to the 19th century. The Antiphona Ensemble devotes all of its voices to serving early types of music from Perotin’s polyphonies and Monteverdi’s madrigals  to the finest  pages of Baroque music all over Europe. Among its latest ‘coups de coeur’ stand out  Bernard-Aymable Dupuy and  Joseph Vallette-de-Montigny the talented composers  who used to live in Toulouse as  well as  Czech composer  Jan Dismas Zelenka whose emotional expression  is close to Bach and Mozart’s. Eager to promote the musical heritage of their region, Rolandas Muleika and the Antiphona Ensemble have devoted the largest part of their yearly programming to Villefranche-de-Rouergue’s manuscripts for quite a few years. This collection of unpublished archives of outstanding musical quality, totally forgotten and bound to disappear, is being minutelyrestored and preserved. Thanks to its musicological and stylistic expertise, the Antiphona Ensemble can revive musical pieces by performing them aptly with respect to the specificities  of each period, each place or each composer. But the Antiphona Ensemble is also determined  to re-interpret this early music repertoire by blending it with contemporary pieces or pieces taken from the traditional repertoire. Thus the Ensemble re-creates some musical forms while modernizing them at the same time.  For instance, a contemporary piece on the theme of the Way of Saint James especially composed for us  or a new version of the first act of Monteverdi’s Orfeo with  a percussion ensemble are part of next season’s programme.

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Grands Motets vol.2

Grands Motets vol.2

Grands Motets de Joseph Valette de Montigny

Grands Motets de Joseph Valette de Montigny

Ensemble Antiphona, L’Occitanie baroque des Pénitents Noirs

Ensemble Antiphona, L’Occitanie baroque des Pénitents Noirs

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