A harmonically rich music, without particular difficulties and filled by a luminous atmosphere. Bernard Aubin is a musician living near Lille. Choirmaster of several ensembles, including a Gregorian choir, his music has won awards in...
MeF 855 - Charles Gounod ; Three short songs for the school prize-giving ceremony. More about Charles Gounod
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....
This song (Bards song)) is from a forgotten cantata by Franz Schubert "Omàla" (1815) on a Celtic text by a bard from the 3rd century Ossian. • The text is in the great romantic tradition by the expressiveness of words and feelings. • Originally...
This very popular traditional song is very representative of the period of liberation of slaves and was written before the American Civil War (1861-1865). First published in 1853, "Old Black Joe" refers to the slavery in cotton farms in the South....
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...
MeF 231 : Song for 2 men voices celebrating the famous Charles Baudelaire poem, Man and the Sea Free man! the sea is to thee ever dear! The sea is thy mirror, thou regardest thy soul In its mighteous waves that unendingly roll, And thy...
The very famous Slaves Chorusr from Verdi Nabucco's opera. Piano accompaniment available under the reference MeF 901P
A little-known romantic work, supposed to be a Beethoven's composition (but it is not listed, in the catalog of his works). The text of the Hymn is attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
A composer to rediscover! A simple and fluid music (can be doubled with the organ or the harmonium, as one did at the end of the XIXth century). No particular difficulties or delicate vocal demands. A beautiful work ending on an amazing Amen!...
This song arranged for 3 male voices by Bernard Lallement, is from the Ambly region, not that of Meuse, but that of the province of Luxemburg in Belgium. It can be sung by any choir or male choir voice thanks to a simple harmonization and without...
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...
MeF 1781 : César Franck - Ave Maria ( sop, ten (alt), bass) for 3 mixed voices and organ More about César Franck
MeF 1118 : Noël du Languedoc for 3 mixed voices a cappella. A simple and easy joyful traditional carol from the south of France
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...
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...
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
