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Natus est, natus est! Born, born!

~ Christmas in Aquitaine

2025/12/27(sa.) 14:30 Starting

Toshima Catholic ChurchTokyo

More than 900 years ago, the Aquitaine region in southern France was rich in art and culture.
Poets sang love songs at court, and pious religious music was born in monasteries,
People entrusted their prayers and thoughts to their voices and colored their days with them.
In this concert, we will present a selection of old Christmas songs that were actually sung in the Aquitaine region in the 11th and 12th centuries, especially at the Abbey of St. Martial in Limoges.
This concert will present old Christmas songs that were actually sung in the Aquitaine region in the 11th and 12th centuries, especially at the monastery of St. Martial in Limoges.

The Fontevraud Abbey is also located north of Aquitaine,
The Fontevraud Abbey, located in the north of Aquitaine, is where Alienor d'Aquitaine spent the last years of her life.
The abbey is the resting place of the royalty and aristocracy of England and France,
The abbess Alienor de Bretagne (1275-1342), who was the abbess at the time, was presented with a lavish and colorful chant.
The program will also feature the Christmas holiday chants from the sumptuous and colorful chant book.

Christmas music sung by people in the Middle Ages along with their prayers.
The echoes of a far-off era will quietly reach our hearts today.

Program

Collection of French Christmas Chants of the 12th~13th Centuries

From the polyphonic Verses for Christmas in Aquitaine
Let us sing together of this birth
"From on high the light shines
Rising in the East, etc.

Chant for the Feast of Christmas from "Gladières d'Alienor de Bretagne".
"Born, born!"
The branches of the Essais have blossomed," etc.

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  • Musica Palafonista

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