Concerts and recordings
Exceptional concerts
Besides its concerts and tours, the Academy takes part in other musical projects.
Highlights include:
- World premiere, December 2016 — premiere of the work Syllabes divines, Mystère sur la prophétie de Jérémie, under the high patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Hanover. These three vocal works inspired by the Book of Jeremiah were composed by Thierry Escaich (Latin text), Michel Petrossian (Greek text) and Gad Barnéa (Hebrew text).
- Monaco, April 2017 — the Academy was invited by Princess Caroline of Hanover to sing the Holy Week services in the Principality of Monaco.
- Higginbottom concerts, April 2017 and May 2019 — at the close of an exceptional Masterclass, the Academy gave a concert in Paris conducted by the internationally renowned Sir Edward Higginbottom, former choirmaster of New College, Oxford.
Our CDs
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Videos
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Works we sing
The Academy has sung many works, in concert as well as at services and Masses:
Sacred vocal music
Mixed-voice choir or equal-voice choir.
- Vivaldi’s Gloria (choir, soloists, oboe and organ)
- Dextera Domini by César Franck (choir and organ)
- Cantique de Jean Racine by Gabriel Fauré
- Panis angelicus by César Franck
- Requiem by Fauré
- Alléluia by Buxtehude…
Mass ordinaries
- Gregorian Masses
- Fauré's Requiem Mass
Gregorian pieces
- Veni creator Spiritus
- Tantum ergo
- Pange lingua
Works for Christmastide
- A Ceremony of Carols by Britten
- Veni veni Emmanuel by Kodály
- Carols and traditional songs
- Messe de Minuit by Charpentier…
Works for soloists
- Excerpts from Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, for countertenor
- Ave Maria by Vladimir Vavilov, known as “by Caccini”, for soprano…
Works for Holy Week
- Crucifixus by Lotti, for 8 voices
- Agnus Dei by Barber
- Miserere by Allegri
- Motets by Martini and Victoria…
Secular music, instrumental and vocal
- Jazz pieces, the Blues Brothers, the Beatles, Ed Sheeran, Alan Walker…
- Film scores: James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, Les Choristes…
- Excerpts from musicals: The Sound of Music, The Lion King…
Secular vocal music
- L'Alphabet by Mozart
- La Cigale et la Fourmi by Mozart
- Traditional French songs…