The Pérotin le Grand ensemble chose to dedicate its first album to the Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, to which we are all profoundly attached.

Upon this occasion, we invite you to travel through its history: the record explores five centuries of music (XIth - XVIth), composed by the great masters of Notre-Dame (Pérotin, Antoine Brumel) or by cantors trained within the ensemble (Pierre Certon, Jean Allaire).

The cathedral’s dome has reverberated for over one thousand years thanks to this music, handed over from across the generations.

Our wish is to make this music live beyond its walls

All the singers of the Pérotin le Grand ensemble are driven by the same desire to meet and to sing the best pieces that the cathedral has taught us over the centuries.

It is with great pleasure that we undertake this project !

* A few words from the composer Raphaël Mas (born in 1984) for his piece

... À travers temps... 2020

Work in two parts for eight voices a cappella or choir

Mentions a travel throughout various stages of the History of music, notably the one that began at Notre-Dame de Paris.

This masterpiece was composed from the Parisian antiphon Regina Mundi, as well as two versified proses sung, at times alternately, or simultaneously, thus enabling one to play with multiple codes proper to the times to which the piece alludes to. However, the notion of travelling is not limited to the question of time. This concerns an acoustic journey that can be approached by way of the text, but also through the variety of textures and colours that succeed “throughout time”.

This finally consists in telling a story and enabling each person, during his trip, to imagine his own.

L'ensemble Pérotin le Grand enregistre son premier CD