Dimanches Du Temps Pascal

Featuring

Dom Joseph Gajard
Chœur des moines de l'Abbaye de Solesmes
Anonymous (Gregorian Chant)
Anonymous

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Compositional Technique

The pieces on this album, Gregorian chants, are a musical commentary on the word 'alleluia,' which is a liturgical leitmotiv during Eastertide.

Album & Artwork

This album, 'Dimanches du Temps Pascal,' is part of a larger series of recordings of liturgical music, including volumes for Advent, Lent, and various feast days.

Compositional Technique

Adam de Saint-Victor's 'Salve dies dierum' is a rigorously structured poem that conveys the doctrine of Redemption with suggestive imagery and a sumptuously developed melody.

Composition History

The sequence 'Salve dies dierum' is a masterpiece by Adam de Saint-Victor, a canon regular of Saint-Victor Abbey in Paris, who was considered the greatest liturgical poet of the Middle Ages.