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SUMMARY:ALMA Ensemble
DESCRIPTION:To mark their debut performance\, Alma Ensemble will be presenting a concert on Twelfth Night – the Day of the Kings – with a programme relating to the Christmas period. Indeed\, this concert is a genuine journey through time… in 15 songs!\nFor several centuries\, the birth of Jesus has been celebrated in European civilisation\, especially through song\, as is proved by the Gregorian chant Puer Natus est\, the introit for Christmas Day: “For unto us a child is born\, unto us a son is given…” (Isaiah\, 9:6). The programme continues with a medieval English song from the fifteenth century: one of the first examples of a Christmas Carol – the quintessential Anglophone song. The text is a sophisticated comparison between the Virgin Mary and a flower: “Ther is no rose of swych vertu” – There is no rose of such virtue as the one that gave birth to Jesus.\nThe next piece is from the sixteenth century\, more precisely the work of Dom Pedro de Cristo\, one of the most famous musicians from the monastery of Santa Cruz in Coimbra. Es Nascido is a Spanish carol\, which\, as was customary at that time\, is full of contrasts and polyrhythms\, producing a festive and exultant final result.\nThe church cantata Herrscher des Himmels (Ruler of Heaven\, hear our babble)\, from J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio\, dispenses with the need for any presentation and causes us to leap directly to the final apogee of the German baroque\, with all of its contrapuntal richness\, both instrumental and vocal.
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