Musicaventure
The Acoustic Siestas
The site of the Abbey with its cloister, its courtyard planted with hackberry trees and gardens planted with rosemary and lavender, offers a delicious setting for sound siestas. Comfortably seated in deckchairs and equipped with binaural sound headphones (which reproduce normal hearing conditions) relive the emblematic concerts of the Festival de Saintes, a reminder of summer magic.
8 concerts of your choice for a moment of sharing and relaxation: Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony No. 6, Onslow’s “Cain Doomed or the Death of Abel”, Monteverdi’s Vespers, Handel’s “Dixit Dominus” and “Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day”, Echoes in time by Voces8, Benevolo’s monumental polyphonies or Bach’s Johannes passion.
In practice : 40 to 50 min
The works to discover
6th symphony “ Pastorale ”
from Ludwig Van Beethoven
recorded Festival de Saintes 2015
performed by the Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye
conducted by the german conductor Philipp von Steinaecker
Overture and cantata « Caïn maudit ou la mort d’Abel »
from Georges Onslow
recorded Festival de Saintes 2015
performed by the Jeune Orchestre de l’Abbaye
conducted by the german conductor Philipp von Steinaecker
“The Vespers of the Blessed Virgin”
La Tempête
Conducted by Simon Pierre-Bestion
Recorded in binaural at the Festival de Saintes 2016
“Dixit Dominus” and “Ode à Sainte Cécile”
Ensemble Vox Luminis
Conducted by Lionel Meunier
Recorded in binaural at the Festival de Saintes 2017
Echoes in Time
from Byrd, Mouton, Dove, Britten, Tavener, Machaut, Holst, Tallis, Pärt
VOCES8
Recorded in binaural at the Festival de Saintes 2018
Monumental polyphonies
from Orazio Benevolo
Concert Spirituel
Conducted by Hervé Niquet
Recorded in binaural at the Festival de Saintes 2019
Johannes passion BWV 245
from Johann Sebastian Bach
Ensemble Vox Luminis
Conducted by Lionel Meunier
Recorded in binaural at the Festival de Saintes, LE LABO 2020