In the remarkable setting of the Romanesque church of Saint-Jean, highlighted for the occasion, the cantors of Saint-Himaire Sauternes interpret the show «REQUIEM 16.90»: from darkness to light around baroque music of the French seventeenth century. Astrid Vehstedt is responsible for the layout. 15 musicians occupy the architectural and acoustic space of the church. From darkness to light... It is a musical time between earth and sky, between baroque and timeless, from night to light; mode of escape in a hectic world. Around Louis Chein’s harmonised plainsong mass of 1690, there is a comparison of the gallican plainsong of the cathedral of Versailles of 1686, an astonishing and mobile setting. The plainchant which seems motionless then meets the movement to give rise to a particular emotion. The 6 singers are accompanied by sound and organic instruments: horns, sacqueboute, snake and continuo.
Director: François-Xavier Lacroux.