TRIALOGUE A project around South Indian, Moroccan and medieval European traditions
Aruna Saïram Noureddine Tahiri Dominique Vellard
GCD P32306
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Aruna Saïram, voice Noureddine Tahiri, voice Dominique Vellard, voice H.N. Bkaskar, violin Driss Berrada, oud Keyvan Chemirani, zarb Patri Satish Kumar, mridangamBaptiste Romain, fiddle
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Total playing time 79:01 Recorded in the church of Mont-Saint-Jean (Bourgogne, France) on 6-9 June 2011 Engineered by Jean-François Felter Produced by Jean-François Felter and Ensemble Gilles Binchois Executive producer: Carlos Céster Booklet texts by François Cassingena-Trevedy and Dominique VellardEnglish – Français – Deutsch
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TRIALOGUEA project around South Indian, Moroccan and medieval European traditions
01 Al-AdhânCall to prayer (Islamic tradition)
02 BenedicamGradual (plainchant)
03 Lalitha SaharsaranamamVedic recitation
04 Kanthamam Kathirkamam / Alleluia, imperatrix egregiaMayuram Vishwanatha Sastri (Raga Sindhu Bhairavi) / Anonymous
05 Al KalbouMowale (naawande mode)
06 Puis que ma dolourGuillaume de Machaut (virelai)
07 Raga AmritavarshiniMuthuswami Dikshtar
08 Entre terre et cielBaptiste Romain (instrumental)
09 Ihesus CristzGuiraut Riquier
10 Raml el mayaArabo-Andalusian repertoire
11 Eppo VaruvaroGopaalakrishna Bhaaratiyaar
12 Por nos Virgen / Chamss el achiyaAlfonso X el Sabio (cantiga) / Arabo-Andalusian repertoire
13 Shanti / Salam / Agnus Dei Setumaadhava Rao / Improvisation / Plainchant
About this CD
The director of the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard, has been spending many years searching for connections – be they of intellectual, spiritual or musical natures – with non-western traditions, searching for links and ties between them that will lead to a deeper understanding and awareness of medieval European chant (and Vellard has been one of the leading specialists in this area for some three decades). His approach has entailed searching out meeting points between these musical cultures to bring them closer together and to draw out their musical qualities, but never in the sense of any unwarranted combining or blending.
The meeting of Vellard in the middle 1990s with the legendary South Indian singer Aruna Saïram paved the way for an ensuing rich musical and human dialogue, and led them to give over 30 concerts in Europe, India, Morocco and Malaysia as well as recording an album for EMI in 1999. The Islamic tradition was brought within the scope of this adventure with Vellard and Saïram’s joint collaboration from 2002 onwards with the Moroccan singer Noureddine Tahiri; a new high point is now being reached with the release of this new Glossa recording, Trialogue.
Together with their instrumentalists they provide intensely moving performances, with music of a great beauty, all set to captivate serious music lovers from world to classical.
Since starting making recordings for Glossa in 2007 Dominique Vellard has been demonstrating the broad range of interests which have been so influential over the thirty years of the career of his Ensemble Gilles Binchois and which help to make up this complex musical personality. From the earliest polyphonies interspersed with Gregorian Chant (in L’Arbre de Jessé and the reissued Music and Poetry in St Gallen) to 21st century compositions from Vellard himself and Jean-Pierre Leguay (in Vox nostra resonet and Motets croisés) by way of the 17th century polyphony of Monteverdi, Schütz and Frescobaldi, some of the facets of Vellard’s continuing interest in religious music have been reflected on the label. [read more...]