Concert as part of the Montalbane Festival: ORDO VIRTUTUM

Under the motto MONUMENTA, montalbâne 2024 presents the most famous works of medieval music, internationally acclaimed musicians and rare historical instruments from 21 to 23 June 2024. Let yourself be enchanted by the authentic sound of times long past!

Naumburg Cathedral will host the ORDO VIRTUTUM ensemble under the direction of Stefan Johannes Morent.

CLUNY & CÎTEAUX
Ecstasy and asceticism in Gregorian chant

With the monasteries of CLUNY and CÎTEAUX, Burgundy in the 12th century is home to two equally important and different reform movements of medieval monasticism. On the one hand, the Benedictine "monastic empire" of CLUNY with its imposing monastery town and abbots who promoted art and science and saw the right path to God in the ornate decoration of the church interior and liturgy, including their singing - on the other hand, CÎTEAUX as the birthplace of the new Cistercian order:Cistercians, who, in sharp criticism of Cluny, propagated asceticism and the renunciation of everything superfluous as a monastic ideal and also reformed the chorale in the process.

The monumental churches of both monasteries no longer exist and their original sound has been lost. The ORDO VIRTUTUM ensemble set out in search of the authentic acoustics and reconstructed them virtually in a research project at the University of Tübingen.

Matthias Deger, Simon MacHale, Hubert Mayer, Stefan Johannes Morent, Giacomo Schiavo, Csongor Szántó: Vocals

Concert introduction: Stefan Johannes Morent
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Further information on the programme and tickets can be found at www.montalbane.de