Chant

Performing Gregorian (and early Medieval) chant in its liturgical context restores the sublimeness of the ritual. Several of these performances have been led by Professor Eugeen Liven d’Abelardo, who conducts the professional chant ensemble Hartkeriana as well as the Schola Cantorum Amsterdam with whom Mr. Fülling sang vespers every Sunday at the Nicholaskerk in Amsterdam. He has gone on to invite Professor Liven d’Abelardo to conduct performances at the Art Monastery in Italy and he has created his own liturgical reconstructions there, singing Complines nightly at the Art Monastery. At one point, the artmonks had sung Vespers or Masses with three separate Italian bishops. Mr. Fülling’s Jakobusvesper, returned the virtuosic early polyphony that survived in the Codex Calixtinus…which is almost exclusively heard in concert formats… to its original ritual context. He reconstructed a Vespers for the Feast of St. James from the chants also contained in the Codex. The meditative monophony of the first half hour of chants helped to restore the marvel that worshippers of the day must have experience when the soaring polyphony blossomed.

Vespro dei Martiri. Convento di S. Martino, Orvieto: 2012

Music: Gregorian Chant

Celbrant: Bishop of Orvieto

Music Director: Eugeen Liven d’Abelardo

Featuring: Christopher Fülling, Charles Darius, Andrew Pulkrabek, Robert Maxwell

Mass for the Api Political Party Convention. Labro, 2011

Music: Gregorian Chant

Celebrant: Bishop of Terni

Music Director: Christopher Fülling

Featuring:Christopher Fülling, Charles Darius, Andrew Pulkrabek, Robert Maxwell

Art Monastery Compline. Labro, 2010

Music: Gregorian Chant

Celebrant: Betsy McCall, Abbess of the Art Monastery

Music Director: Christopher Fülling

Featuring: countless artmonks over the years

Vespro di S. Francesco. Calvi dell’Umbria, 2008

Music: Franciscan chant for the feast of St. Francis

Celebrant: Father Martin Claes

Music Director: Eugeen Liven d’Abelardo

Featuring: Simon Paul, Christopher Fülling, Johannes Schmelzer-Zieringer, Wiebe Brouwer, Matthew Acuff

Vespro di S. Pancrazio. Calvi dell’Umbria: 2007

Music: Gregorian chant

Celebrant: Father Martin Claes

Music Director: Prof. Eugeen Liven d’Aberlardo

Featuring: Christopher Fülling, Luca Racanicchi,

Jacobusvesper. Nicholaskerk, Amsterdam: 2003

Music: Codex Calixtinus,chant and polyphony for Vespers on the Feast of St. James

Celebrant: Father Martin Claes

Music Director: Christopher Fülling

Featuring: Joao Sebastiao, Simon Paul, Martijn Bierbrouwer, Hans van Muijen,

Grÿndevesper. OEROL Festival, Terschelling (NL) 2003

Music: Gregorian chant compline and Swedish and English Mediæval music

Celebrant: Sebastian Holz (as ABBOT UBBO)

Music Director: Christopher Fülling & Tarquinia Hill

Featuring: Tarquinia Hill, Hannah __, Paul Vorwerk, Tido Visser, Ulrich ___