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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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An exceptional round composed by Ludwig van Beethoven on December 31st 1819, as a new year gift (Happiness for a new year!).
From one of Henry Purcell's last compositions (Bonduca - 1695) this "catch" is a canon for 3 voices worthy of the farces of Molière or Shakespeare. Very pleasant to sing, it does not require less rigor for its implementation. The score is...
"La fille de Madame Angot" (Madame Angot's Daughter( is one of the most famous operettas of the second half of the 19th century. It is located during the Directoire period in France (late 18th century): Young extravagant and extravagant...
This polyphonic a cappella mass was first published in 1699, while Campra was still music master at Notre-Dame de Paris. It is the only known mass (with the exception of his Requiem); In this composition, André Campra plays with rhythms...
Ernest Chausson is better known for his melodies and less for his choral pieces. Dying too early from a bicycle accident, he just did few scores for the choirs. This Ballata, written in1897, is a cappella work dedicated to a quartet "les petits...
This song to marry is traditional music from Maine in the Perche (western part of France). It is arranged in a simple and fluid way, without harmonic artifice by Olivier Geoffroy, a Lorraine composer. Another popular song to marry, harmonized by...
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"...
Extract from the Feast of Shrove Tuesday: a funny dialogue between animals (cat, dog, owl ...), where everyone is an animal and no more a singer...
Traditional Breton hymn based on the text of the 9th century from the Ave Maris Stella (we salute you star of the sea) for choir with 4 mixed voices. The harmonization of Paul LE FLEM "recites" the text of the prayer with simplicity and...
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...
