Concert «Cantate Domino» – The Animated Voices

The Animated Voices

Musical direction by Luc Coadou

«"Cantate Domino"»

Happy birthday Palestrina!

Sacred music of the Renaissance

6 voices a cappella

As part of the "Cistercian Route" partnership«

The science of harmony and the mastery of rhetoric are the tools of an art whose ultimate goal is to lead the mind toward an absolute that can touch the divine. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, "Princeps Musicae," undeniably possessed the secrets of this craft, which allows us today to access the spirit and taste of an era, the Renaissance. Les Voix Animées celebrates today the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Roman master, one of their principal companions. In this program, the vocal ensemble joins him with his alter ego, Orlande de Lassus, whom Ronsard aptly nicknamed "the Divine Orlande." These two remarkably dissimilar composers—one prolific and whimsical, the other rigorous and witty—were united by death, which struck them both in the same year, 1594.

Music by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Orlande de Lassus.