Márk Bubnó, György Philipp – vocals, percussion János Mezei – harpsichord Mihály Sós – charango Lőrinc Bubnó – guitar Attila Szilágyi – double bass Series editor and artistic director - Tamás Bubnó The four-concert-series of the Saint Ephraim Male Choir draws not only from the music of Notre Dame Cathedral and the period called in music history as the Notre Dame School of Polyphony , but puts this trend, having its compositional effects up to contemporary music, into a context of cultural history. The first phenomenon of this was the “musical revolution” of the 12th century with its special way of seeing things and its musical brilliance, doubtlessly influencing the development of European musical history. “In the beginning, there was Greek” – the common language in philosophy, science and music around the whole cultured world, even during the shining glory of the Roman Empire. After its splitting, the basic difference of the two cultures appeared in their languages, too. Latin, prescribed and controlled by Rome, became the lingua franca of the West, used in ecclesiastic chants, liturgy and administration up to the Second Vatican Council in 1965. This monolith was to burst by the use of mother tongue in the Reformation. In the East, besides Greek of Byzantium, Old Church Slavic became dominating, a sort of “Slavic Latin”, enduring for centuries in liturgy solely, but not used in everyday life. Both the first and last composition of today’s concert was written in 1965; they are masses having their roots in African and South American folk music, respectively. Missa Luba prefers lingua classica, while Missa Criolla the lingua moderna (Argentinian Spanish). The program, performed between them, reveals special and interesting bilingual ecclesiastical music, developing from the Notre Dame era. Namely, to mix the lingua classica and lingua moderna in certain compositions became customary both in the East and the West, thus we will hear works in Latin-French, Latin-English, Latin-German, Greek-Arabic, or Greek-Slavic-Hungarian as well.
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