Les saisons, les mois, les jours et les ans ; la nature, les arbres, les fleurs, l'eau, la terre, la mer, le vent...
The seasons, the months, days and years ; the nature, the trees, flowers, water, earth, sea, the wind...
New products
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
MeF 355 - Barbara Strozzi : Quel misero usignolo, madrigal for 4 mixed voices and Basso Continuo. Barbara Strozzi (Venice, 1619 - Padua, 1664), Italian soprano and composer, was the adopted (and natural) daughter of the poet and librettist Giulio...
MeF 1780 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier : motet to the Virgin Mary for mixed voices
MeF 138 / traditional folk song from Flanders, for 4 mixed voices Young lady, do not grieve, the feast of St. Anne's is coming up. It must arrive soon, then it will pass. Let's dance, let's jump, let's enjoy ourselves and be content. Such a life,...
Active filters
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).
What will we do, Friends In this terrible winter? Our barrels are emptied and No new wine! ... Let's go and spend the winter with our friend Grégoire; At René's, spring; Summer at Gros Lucas ... Good drinkers are never ungrateful.
The music of this song is totally baroque, even in its lyrics. Its "peasant" character is in the words and certain clumsy and almost caricatured French expressions of what was considered to speak of the countryside ("je gaussions", "dieu marcy"...
This charming duo of one of the few recognized women composers can be sung either in equal voices, or with a soprano and a haute-contre (contra-tenor).
MeF 857 : Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain (version B 1898). Winter, how naughty you are! There are two different versions of this Debussy composition (date april 1898) - Version A, according to the complete score MEF 857 - Version B, according to...
MeF 861 - Fanny Hensel : Im Herbste, for 4 mixed voices a cappella. More about Fanny Hensel
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...
Here is an astonishing music by a forgotten composer concerned with the melodic line and the sound envelope. Yet André Gédalge was at the Paris Conservatory the teacher of Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud and George Enesco. The throbbing...
Tung by sailors and fishermen and collected from a boat captain in the Dunkirk region in the 19th century, this shanty evokes traditional herring (cod) fishing campaigns. Arranged for three male voices by Bernard Lallement, it is proposed...
This traditional sea shanty from Morbihan is constructed as an alternation between the voices of women and the voices of men. The slightly rough harmonies sometimes recall the harshness of the swell and the work of the fishermen. Another...
