Salve Regina (Latry)

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Salve Regina (Heil, Königin) is an organ composition byOlivier Latry, a meditation on the Latin Marian hymn "Salve Regina". Each of the seven movements considers a line of the hymn, which can be recited beforehand asGregorian chant. The work wasperformed and recorded for the first timeon October 9, 2007 by the composer inNotre Damein Paris. It was published byGérard Billaudot.

history

Latry, organist at Notre Dame in Paris, is known as an improviser. The traditional Marian hymn used is often used in Catholic church music, not least in the central Paris church building. It also allows compositional approaches to combine elements of Gregorian chant (such as the voice leading in parallel fifths ) and modern church music.

Latry first began using such approaches in 1999 with improvisation in Lawrence at the University of Kansas . The composer played the work for the first time at the Grand Orgue of Notre Dame on October 9, 2007, with the singer Emmanuel Bouquet and the Schola of the Maîtrise Notre Dame de Paris . It was printed by Gérard Billaudot . Latry recorded it, combined with other new compositions related to Maria. Among other things, Yves Castagnet's mass Salve Regina was recorded and published together with Latry's instrumental piece. The reviewer of a performance on November 7th in St. Bonifatius, Wiesbaden , interpreted by Gabriel Dessauer, described the tonal language of the work as “astonishingly backward-looking” and mentioned that it allowed “the whole human cosmos to be felt, including cruelty and violence from which salvation is sought in this prayer ”.

construction

Each of the seven movements reflects a line of the hymn, which can be sung beforehand, either by a singer, a schola or a children's choir. The sentences are high-contrast character pieces.

I Salve Regina - Avec la liberté du chant grégorien
II Vita dulcedo - Calme
III Ad te clamamus - Martelé, sauvage
IV Ad te suspiramus - Sombre, implacable
V Eia ergo - Profond
VI Et Jesum - Comme une lente procession
VII O clemens

Latry underscores the conflicting feelings of the calls to Maria with lecture titles that emphasize not only the pace, but the mood. Salve Regina (Greetings Queen, Mother of Mercy) has the freedom of Gregorian chant. Vita dulcedo (Greetings to our life, our bliss and our hope) is calm. Ad te clamamus (to you we call exiled children of Eve) is an outcry that is hammering and wild to shape. Ad te suspiramus (To you we sigh mournfully and weep in this valley of tears) appears dark and inexorable. Eia ergo (Well then, our advocate, turn your merciful eyes to us) is characterized as deep. Et Jesum (And after this misery show us Jesus, the blessed fruit of your body) appears like a slow procession. The last call O clemens ( O gracious , o mild, o sweet Virgin Mary) has no name. It ends like a bell.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Olivier Latry / Salve Regina . Universal Edition, 2001.
  2. ^ Bragg: Salve Regina . musicweb-international.com. Retrieved October 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Doris Kösterke: 150 choir singers work on performance of two compositions by Gabriel Fauré in one day . In: Wiesbadener Kurier , November 9, 2015. Accessed November 10, 2015. 
  4. ↑ 21st Wiesbaden Bach Weeks / From Heaven on Earth . Johann Sebastian Bach Society Wiesbaden, 2015, p. 15.

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