The Ensemble Organum, the French early-music choir directed by Marcel Pérès, has explored a rich repertory that runs from old Roman chant to Josquin, with occasional detours to examine Sufi and other ...

Laudario di Cortona: A Medieval Mystery. Ensemble Organum; Marcel Peres, director (Harmonia Mundi). The Laudario di Cortona is one of two great collections of vernacular religious chants from the ...

The Ensemble Organum vocal group makes sense for the Villa because they specialize in medieval and early music, especially in chant. They also look for, and find, enduring traces of the medieval in ...

Strange things happen at Aldeburgh. On Friday evening I was sitting with around 100 intrepid souls on a grassy sand-dune outside Sizewell nuclear power station, trying to ignore the wind-blown rain, ...

Lucie Skeaping presents recordings of music by the 13th-century European composer Perotin, including performances by the Hilliard Ensemble, The Orlando Consort and Ensemble Organum. Probably French in ...