A Discography of Ensemble Organum

This is a discography of the early music group Ensemble Organum. The Ensemble was founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and is based in France. Its members have changed over the years, and include or have included at one time Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell. They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos.

They specialize in "pre- and para-Gregorian" chant, i.e., chants that were in use before Gregorian developed, or that evolved or survived in parallel with Gregorian chant. They are also interested in the way Gregorian was performed in the 16th-18th centuries (as opposed to the Solesmes tradition of performance). Their more recent work has been on Mozarabic chant (16th c. Spain) and the Laudario di Cortona (performed in a "staged" version in Paris in May 1995).

Original Recordings

In chronological order by recording date....

Polyphonie aquitaine du XIIe siècle: St. Martial de Limoges

Harmonia Mundi 901134

Messe du Jour de Noel (École de Notre-Dame)

Harmonia Mundi 901148

Chants de l'Église de Rome des VIIe et VIIIe siècles: période byzantine

Harmonia Mundi 901218

Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange lingua

w/ Ensemble Clément Janequin
Harmonia Mundi 901239

Codex Chantilly: airs de cour du XIVe siècle

Harmonia Mundi 901252

Corsica: Chants polyphoniques

Harmonia Mundi 901256

François Couperin: Messe a l'usage ordinaire des paroisses (1690)

Jean-Charles Ablitzer (organ)
Harmonic Records H/CD 8613

Chants de l'Église Milanaise

Harmonia Mundi 901295

Plain-chant Cathedrale d'Auxerre

Harmonia Mundi 901319

Ludus paschalis sive de Passione Domini

Harmonia Mundi 901323/24 (2 CDs)

Le jeu des pèlerins d'Emmaüs: drame liturgique du XIIe siècle

Harmonia Mundi 901347

Messe de Tournai

Harmonia Mundi 901353

Codex Faenza - Selections

Harmonia Mundi 901354

Messe de Saint Marcel

Harmonia Mundi 901382

Palestrina: Missa Viri Galilaei, Motet Viri Galilaei, Magnificat primi toni

La Chapelle Royale - Philippe Herreweghe
Harmonia Mundi 901388

Chants Cisterciens

Harmonia Mundi 901392

Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne

Harmonia Mundi 901403

Ockeghem: Requiem

Harmonia Mundi 901441

Chant de la Cathedrale de Benevento

Harmonia Mundi 901476

Plain-Chant Parisien: XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles

Harmonia Mundi 901480

Chant Corse: Manuscrits franciscains des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles

Harmonia Mundi 901495

Chant Mozarabe Cathédrale de Tolède (XVe siècle)

Harmonia Mundi 901519

École Notre Dame: Messe de la Nativité de la Vierge

Harmonia Mundi 901538

Laudario di Cortona: Un mystère du XIIIe siècle

Harmonia Mundi 901582

Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame

Harmonia Mundi 901590

Chants de l'église de Rome - Vêpres

Harmonia Mundi 901604

Hildegard von Bingen: Laudes de Sainte Ursule

Harmonia Mundi 901626

Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi: Codex Calixtinus

Ambroisie 9966

Ad vesperas Sancti Ludovici Regis Franciæ

Antiphonaire des Invalides, 1682
Ambroisie 9982

Le Manuscrit du Saint Sépulcre

Le Chant des Templiers
Ambroisie 9997

Chant de L'Église de Rome

Incarnatio Verbi
Zig-Zag Territoires 81001

Missa Gotica - XIV^e siècle

Toulouse, Barcelona, Avignon, Apt
Zig-Zag Territories 090601

Divitis / Févin: Requiem

Aeon 1216

Compilations

Marcel Pérès Portrait

Harmonia Mundi SP 042

Ancient Voices - Vox sacra

Anonymous 4, Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès, Soeur Marie Keyrouz
Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 608

Musica humana

Anonymous 4, Ensemble Discantus, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Choeur byzantin de Grèce, Ensemble Organum, Musica Nova, Crawford Young & John Fleagle, Gothic Voices, Hilliard Ensemble, Houria Aïchi, Yann-Fanch Kemener, Ozan Firat, Kalenda Maya, Françoise Atlan
L'Empreinte Digitale 13047

Le Mystère des Templiers

Various performers
Ambroisie 195

Les Très Riches Heures du Moyen-Âge - A Medieval Journey

Soeur Marie Keyrouz, Ensemble Organum, Deller Consort, Clemencic Consort, Anonymous 4, Hilliard Ensemble, Newberry Consort, Paul O'Dette
Harmonia Mundi HMX 90 649/54 (6 CDs)

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