Huelgas Ensemble

Show & Culture

When Notre-Dame was built, a revolution also began. Around the year 1200, Paris acquired a new cathedral and a new musical universe to fill it. The composers working at Notre-Dame did more than compose: they invented an entirely new system of musical notation, as if the world of Western music suddenly learned how to read. The Huelgas Ensemble revives a selection of these 800-year-old works in the foyer of the Philharmonie, where only voices rise between the famous columns, without a single instrument to accompany them. Just singers, stone, and a magical echo.