'Le chant des oyseaulx'

Dominique Visse, musical director
5 singers, lute & guitar
 
Programme
Clément Janequin (c1485-1558)
Ce moy de may
A ce joly moys de may
Bel aubepin verdissant
M’amye a eut de Dieu le don
Va Rossignol
Si le coqu en ce moys
Herbes et fleurs
Le chant de l’ alouette
 
Adrian Le Roy c1520-1598 [guitar solo]
Prélude (ed1552)

Grégoire Brayssing fl1547-1560 [guitar solo]
L’alouette d’après Clément Janequin (ed 1553)
Clément Janequin
Sur l’aubepin qui est en fleur
Au verd boys
Si Dieu vouloit que je fusse arondelle
Or vien ça, vien
Quelqu’un me disoit l’autre jour
Le chant des oylseaulx
Interval
Claude Lejeune 1528/30-1600
Voicy du gay printemps (2 parts)
Débat la noste trill' en may
Tu ne l'entends pas
Qu'est devenu ce bel oeil
Le chant de l'alouette (3 parts)
 
Adrian Le Roy [guitar solo]
Quand viendra la clarté (Arcadelt)
Grégoire Brayssing [guitar solo]
Fantaisie des grues
Claude Lejeune
Le chant du Rossignol
La guerre amoureuse

Biography:
Formed in Paris in 1978, The Ensemble Clément Janequin specialises in secular and religious Renaissance music from Josquin to Monteverdi. Their inimitable interpretations of French Chanson from the 16th century, have revealed what is now considered to be one of the Golden Ages in the history of French music, and their recordings for Harmonia Mundi, Les Cris de Paris, Le Chant des Oiseaux, Fricassée Parisienne and La Chasse are considered to be benchmark interpretations. With tremendous appeal for a wide audience, these compositions by Janequin, Sermisy, Bertrand, Costeley, Lassus, Le Jeune... have numerous stylistic contrasts so dear to the Renaissance: the touching lyricism of love songs, the earthy humour of rustic songs that draws upon popular farce, the sounds of war, nature and street cries –a unique marriage of popular and high Renaissance culture.
 
El Ensemble Clément Janequin has performed all over the world, often in collaboration with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (AFAA - Association Française d’Action Artistique) in Latin America, the Far East, North America, Australia (together with Música Viva), Canada and are always warmly received on their frequent visits to the Wigmore Hall in London, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Konzerthaus in Vienna and the Festival of Early Music in Innsbruck.
 
Time:
18:00 Introductory talk
19:00 Start of the concert
Price: 10 € at the museum ticket office (an hour before the concert), or in Servikutxa
Place: Chillida-Leku Museum. Zabalaga Farmhouse