Symphonia Harmoniæ Cælestium Revelationum

The singular chants of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century German mystic, install the audience in a sensory experience akin to disorientation. Experienced first and foremost by the artists, this upheaval of perceptions is invoked far from any academic reconstitution.

For François Chaignaud and Marie-Pierre Brébant, it's not a question of offering a concert of medieval music, nor strictly a tribute to Hildegard von Bingen, 12th-century German mystic, writer, composer and physician. To step outside oneself by means of the unheard-of: such is the duo's proposal. To be properly moved by the novel experience associating the sound of the bandura, a lute of Ukrainian origin, with these free-spirited songs, drawing their origins from the Byzantine tradition.