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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...
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,...
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Fable by Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) in which a tin can falls in love with a lobster, finding in its way many similarities ... On a surrealistic poem, here is music that is connected to the text humorous athmosphere.
Extract from Romances without words. The voices dialogue to express the text in turn. A song about voice, music and poetry. I guess through a whisper The subtle outline of ancient voices
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 1972 work by composer Yvonne Desportes, one of the few women to have received the Prix de Rome (after Lili Boulanger, among others). This music is full of energy; simple and fluid, in all the values of these terms. It demonstrates a great...
The sky is standing above the roof So blue, so calm ... On a poem written by Paul Verlaine while he was in jail in Belgium. A simple music, harmonically rich, giving a role to each voices.
A version of "De soy mesme" for 4 mixed voices is available: MeF 216 This score can be added to the score by the same composer on another poem by Clément Marot "du mal content d'amours": MeF219 This same poem by Clément Marot was also set...
A subtle contemporary harmonization of this international Hit of Christmas carols. Some punctual divisi among the voices.
This motet is originally written for 2 equal voices, with an organ accompaniment not required (see the score MeF 1702). The version with three mixed voices was made by adapting the left hand part of the organ into a part for male voice
This work was written for the composer's son who directed the Ensemble Vocal de Neuilly, a city very close to Paris. This "motet" (or cantata?) is built up in different parts which follow one another thanks to the organ which plays an essential...
