Pierre Guedron – Le Consert des consorts

Recommended by Classica
5 in Diapason
10 in Répertoire
4 stars in Le Monde de la Musique
Recommended by CD Compact (Spain)
Awards Issue 2002, Gramophone Magazine (UK)
“Scelta” in Compact Disc Classics (Italy)
4 stars in Orfeo Nella Rete (Italy)
Recommended by Musik an sich (Germany)

The early seventeenth century, an unusually effervescent time in French music, was marked by a decisive event: the revival by the Academy of Antoine de Baïf of ‘music in the antique style’. Other developments included the appearance of the Neapolitan villanesche or ‘vaux de ville’, which influenced popular music in Paris at the time of Henri XIII, and the discovery of the Spanish style, which Henri’s young wife introduced to the French capital from 1615 onwards through the songs and dances of her native land. In the meanwhile, the composer Pierre Guédron, whose works admirably illustrate the early French Baroque, began the practice of writing recitatives.

Cast:
The vocal consort:
Claire Lefilliâtre soprano
Masc Pontus countertenor
Serge Goubioud tenor
Marco Horvat bass

The viol consort:
Sophie Watillon, Friederike Heumann treble viols
Sylvia Abramowicz, Kaori Uemura bass viols

The lute consort:
Vincent Dumestre Baroque guitar, soprano lute
Jean-Luc Tamby, Massimo Moscardo Baroque guitars, tenorlutes
Benjamin Perrot Baroque guitar, bass lute

Programme:

Pierre Ballard
Entrées de Luths

Pierre Guédron
Quel espoir de guarir, Je suis bon garçon, Complainte: Las ! Pourquoi ne suis-je née, Si tu veux apprendre les pas à danser, Dessus la rive de la mer, Airs joüés aux intsrumens, Noires fureurs (Récit d’Alcyne), Cessez mortels de soupirer, À Paris sur petit pont, Qu’on ne me parle plus d’amour

Claude Lejeune
Qu’est devenu ce bel œil

Le Bailly
Passacalle, La Folie

Charles Tessier
J’aime la dizaine
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