Ensemble Gombert

Ensemble Gombert

Ensemble Gombert is a chamber choir based in Melbourne, Australia noted for its pure intonation and historic approach to choral sound and style. The ensemble was founded and is directed by musicologist and organist John O'Donnell citeweb|url=http://www.move.com.au/artist.cfm/596|title=John O'Donnell - Move Records|accessdate=2006-12-28] in 1990. The group is named after Nicolas Gombert (c. 1495 – 1560), whose music has largely been ignored in the centuries since his death, despite it having an exemplary reputation amongst his contemporaries.

Although Ensemble Gombert performs a wide range of choral music, ranging from plainchant to contemporary works, it specialises in "a cappella" performance of Franco-Flemish music of the High Renaissance, that is, polyphonic music of the 16th century. The Ensemble has achieved an important place in the early music scene by re-introducing many forgotten Renaissance masterworks to the concert repertoire, using newly prepared editions by O’Donnell. These works are frequently juxtaposed in innovative programs with more widely known repertoire from later periods.

Performances in recent years have included a program of little-known works by Franco-Flemish composers Johannes Ghiselin, Jacquet of Berchem, Gaspar van Weebeke, Andreas de Silva, Nicolas Payen and Josquin Desprez,citeweb|url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/03/16/1079199206530.html|title=e21, Ensemble Gombert|accessdate=2007-02-05] a quingentennial celebration for Thomas Tallis, the first Australian performance of Arvo Pärt's 'Canon of Repentance' (composed in 1998), works by Jean Richafort and his parodists,citeweb|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/ensemble-gombert/2005/09/11/1126377200139.html|title=Ensemble gombert - Reviews|accessdate=2006-12-28] a program of works originally written for Charles V, Holy Roman Emperorciteweb|url=http://www.acappellanews.com/archive/000844.html|title=A cappella News:Ensemble Gombert|accessdate=2006-12-28 ] a concert of settings of the text 'Media vita' (In the midst of life) including a performance of Gombert's own 'Missa de media vita', German Baroque masterpieces by Johann Hermann Schein, Michael Praetorius, Heinrich Schütz andJohann Sebastian Bach, Alessandro Scarlatti's 'Stabat mater', and an annual concert entitled 'Christmas to Candlemas' that presents works written for the numerous Christian feast-days in the forty-day Church season that begins on Christmas Day.

The ensemble has broadcast extensively on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Classic FM radio network, as well as the Melbourne-based community arts station 3MBS. It has appeared at many festivals across Australia, including the annual Organs of the Goldfields Festival in Ballarat, and the Woodend Winter Arts Festival, has twice toured to Europe, and has released two CD recordings: "Josquin to Martin" on the Move label (2004) and "Christmas to Candlemas" for Tall Poppies (2006).

References

External links

* [http://www.ensemblegombert.com.au Ensemble Gombert web page]


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