A song that talks about love without fear. The most famous composers of the Renaissance are able to set to music with the same talent of grotesque texts and superb sacred music as well ...!
MeF 635PDF - Vittoria Aleotti : Madrigal for 4 mixed voices "O dolce anima mia" Vittoria Aleotti (circa 1573-1646) Composer, harpsichordist and Augustinian nun from the Convent of San Vito in Ferrara . She was one of the five daughters of Giovan...
Esteban Salas (Esteban Salas y Castro) (1725-1803) is considered as the most representative pioneer and author of the Latin American baroque. He studies the violin, organ, counterpoint, composition and plain singing (he is a soprano) in Havana....
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy,Hail our life, our sweetness and our hope.To thee do we cry,Poor banished children of Eve;To thee do we send up our sighs,Mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.Turn then, most gracious advocate,Thine eyes...
Popular song from the Cassel and Bailleul region (North of France, close to the Belgian boarder). The original text is in Flemish and Bernard Lallement has produced a French version. It is possible to sing this music in either language version (or...
MeF 533 - Josquin des Prés (or Josquin DESPREZ) : Baisez-moi (kiss me). "chanson" for 4 mixed voices. More about Josquin des Prés
Renaissance verses song (7), on the traditional theme of the unmarried, telling the story of the girl married by her parents to an old man, the bride having the firm intention of cheating on her husband with a young man ... Pierre Bonnet is a...
A lullaby in the style of chivalrous novels of the 19th century. (Walter Scott is the author of epic novels such as Ivanhoe, Quentin Durward ...) evoking the Gothic era or the Crusades.
Anton Bruckner has published five different versions of Tantum Ergo whose general structures are similar (homophony of voices, identical breathing of the text ...). The first four are with 4 mixed voices and the fifth (in D) is with five mixed...
Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin's piano accompaniment is also available: MeF 319 What! Still drinking songs? Will I never hear songs to eat? Vine everywhere we celebrate its glory! Nobody says a word about the vegetable garden! What...
César Franck wrote this score for a collection of Litanies to the Virgin published in 1888 and dedicated it to Our Lady of Faith (North). This dedication seems to correspond to different sanctuaries or churches in the North of France, even that...
Certainly one of the most beautiful Renaissance song! A strong dialog between Sop/Alt and Tenor, requiring softness and colour
Eugène Gigout (1844-1925) is one of the most famous organists of the late 19th century and the first quarter of the 20th century. As a composer, he wrote many motets and was deeply involved in the use of plain-chant in harmonized choral music....
A 4-voice round, which served for the 2018 Festi'choeur days, in memory of the end of the First World War.• Intended to be sung by a large number of participants (flashmob), it is simple to learn. Step by step, breaks all boundaries ......
MeF 1119 : Oyez, honorables bourgeois (God rest you merry, gentlemen). Traditional english carol arranged by Bernard Lallement. English and french texts. More about Bernard Lallement
MeF 356 - Jean-Baptiste Lully : Air des trembleurs (for 3 mixed voices). Everybody knows Henry Purcell's "Air du Froid", taken from King Arthur, composed in 1691. Lully had used this principle of vocal staccato as early as 1677 to evoke the...
This Stabat Mater Dolorosa composed between 1911-1912 and lasting 12 to 15 minutes, alternates the stanzas sung by the choir and those sung in psalmody. Fernand de la Tombelle, very sensitive to access to music for all, wrote a simple, fluid...
How not to fall in love with this hymn composed by Fernand de la Tombelle! This composer is to be rediscovered! His music is elegant, subtle and delicate. The AVE VERUM met with great success at the beginning of the 20th century and remains...
A Pastoral is a musical genre that idyllically illustrates nature, shepherds and shepherdesses. The one entitled "Les Festes de l'Amour et de Bachus", in a prologue and three acts, was performed in 1672. It is made up of extracts from different...
A satirical song (prohibited in its time) mocking the french king Louis the 14th and his many extra marital adventures. We quote in the song both the maids and gardeners as the noble ladies (Mme de Montespan, Mme de Soubise) and, of course, the...
Composed in 1663, the "Airs à 4, basse continu, (...), on the paraphrase of some psalms and hymns by Messire Antoine Godeau" are small motets representative of French Baroque music in the time of Louis th 14th in Paris and in Versailles. "Since...
A Pastoral is a musical genre that idyllically illustrates nature, shepherds and shepherdesses. The one entitled "Les Festes de l'Amour et Bachus", in a prologue and three acts, was performed in 1672. It is made up of extracts from different...
Poem by Paul Verlaine from Les Fêtes Galantes (1869): Calm in the half day What tall branches do. Let’s penetrate our love From this deep silence.
A variation between jazz and contemporary music, on the first lines of the finale of Beethoven's 9th symphony. Hymnus refers to the European Anthem but only keeps a short extract (Freude schöner Götterfunken ...) and uses the onomatopoeias of...
The very famous Slaves Chorusr from Verdi Nabucco's opera. Piano accompaniment available under the reference MeF 901P
MeF 505PDF - Claudin de Semisy : Ceux de Picardie - easy and lively Renaissance song. This earthy and joyful drinking song is very simple and easy to remember. Halfway between Renaissance and Middle Ages music, it celebrates the ability of Piacrds...
