Hypnos La Tempête & Simon-Pierre Bestion

• Pierre de Manchicourt (1510 - 1564): Messe de requiem:
• 1Manchicourt: Messe de requiem: Introït08:32
• Heinrich Isaac (1450 - 1517):
• 2Isaac: Quis dabit capiti meo aquam06:56
• Olivier Greif (1950 - 2000): Requiem Op. 358:
• 3Greif: Requiem Op. 358: Requiem05:23
• Ludwig Senfl (1490 - 1543): Missa Paschalis:
• 4Senfl: Missa Paschalis: Kyrie04:25
• Anonymous: Graduel vieux-romain de Santa Cecilia de Trastevere:
• 5Anonymous: Graduel vieux-romain de Santa Cecilia de Trastevere: Kyrie pour la Nativité03:35
• Giacinto Scelsi (1905 - 1988): Tre canti sacri:
• 6Scelsi: Tre canti sacri: Requiem03:57
• Marcel Pérès (b. 1956): Missa ex tempore:
• 7Pérès: Missa ex tempore: Gloria10:35
• Anonymous: Antiphonaire ambrosien du British Museum:
• 8Anonymous: Antiphonaire ambrosien du British Museum: Dixit Dominus03:50
• Pedro de Escobar (1465 - 1535): Messe de requiem:
• 9Escobar: Messe de requiem: Sanctus04:57
• Marbrianus de Orto (1460 - 1529):
• 10Orto: Lamentationes hieremiae prophetae: Guimel05:36
• Antoine de Févin (1470 - 1512): Requiem:
• 11Févin: Requiem: Agnus03:57
• Juan de Anchieta (1462 - 1523):
• 12Anchieta: Libera me, Domine08:35
• John Tavener (1944 - 2013):
• 13Tavener: Song for Athene06:10
• Total Runtime01:16:28

Info for Hypnos

Hypnos, God of Sleep... Simon-Pierre Bestion’s recordings are often inspired by his desire to recreate a ritual. His aim here was to recreate a Requiem service, ‘the ceremony that accompanies the passage of a human being into the hereafter, while supporting the feelings of all who witness it. Making use of all the freedom that this act of re-creation afforded me, I constructed this programme without boundaries between repertories or different musical aesthetics – from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance to the twentieth century – selecting the works for their captivating musical material, their hypnotic and meditative dimension’.

Intonations from Byzantine chant sit alongside guttural voices in Giacinto Scelsi and the English vocal style of John Tavener; Franco-Flemish Renaissance polyphony encounters the influences of eastern or western spiritual traditions present in the contemporary works.

La Tempete
Simon-Pierre Bestion, conductor

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas
studied the organ, the harpsichord, chamber music and conducting at the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires (CNSMD). Among his teachers were Louis Robilliard, Jan Willem Jansen, Michel Bourcier, Nicolas Brochot, François Espinasse, Yves Rechsteiner, Olivier Baumont and Blandine Rannou. He has won prizes at several international organ competitions: the Grand Prix d’Orgue Jean-Louis Florentz of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, First Prize by unanimous decision of the judges at the Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiberg (Germany), Second Prize at the Saint-Maurice Competition (Switzerland) and First Prize at the prestigious Xavier Darasse Competition in Toulouse. In 2013 he received the title of Young Echo Organist of the Year.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has given organ recitals in France – Paris (church of La Madeleine, Auditorium de Radio France), Toulouse (Festival Toulouse les Orgues) – and elsewhere in Europe, including Germany (Berlin Cathedral), the Netherlands (Alkmaar), Switzerland, Italy and Monaco (International Organ Festival). He has also worked with such conductors as Hervé Niquet, Arie Van Beek and Roberto Forés Veses. His research on the composers François Rebel and François Francœur was recognised by the award of the Déclics Jeunes scholarship of the Fondation de France.

Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas is also director of Les Surprises, an ensemble specialising in the vocal and instrumental repertory of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with which he has already appeared in several European countries, Canada and Palestine.

He is currently completing his residency at the Fondation Royaumont as organist of the Abbey’s Cavaillé-Coll instrument.

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