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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...
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A play full of humor (it's in the fall season that you get fat and fat ...) which can be put into dialogue male voice + female voice (it's in the season that you get large and fat).
Two short drinking songs for 2 mixed voices: the first about the duty of a water carrier along the Paris streets and who, due to his drunkenness, forgets water in favor of wine; the second celebrating what we shall do on the first day of the...
This short anonymous baroque song combines Love and Bacchus, like many gallant pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries. It is in fact a declaration of love where "I love you" is repeated several times, as for the expression of a true feeling,...
The Parisian publisher Christophe Ballard has printed a set of love songs (tender tunes) for one, two or three voices. These two songs (1711), for 3 mixed voices, have all the characteristics of French baroque expression and writing: harmony,...
A delicious drinking song, with a delicate harmony and the most pleasant melody. Without particular difficulties, it is obvious having pleasure by singing this charming air...
A gallant song in a dialog form (my dear lover, ...my dear mistress). Everything has been said, but this is here in a such elegant way that one can only fall in love with this piece by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier published in 1732!
A gallant song gathering the Gods of love and wine. Delicate melodies highlight each voice in turn.
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...
