Claude Lejeune - Muze honorons l'illustre et grand Henry, Les Pages et Les Chantres de la Chapelle, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
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Les Pages et Les Chantres de la Chapelle, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles - Claude Lejeune - Muze honorons l'illustre et grand Henry
Артист: Les Pages et Les Chantres de la Chapelle, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Альбом: Claude Lejeune - Muze honorons l'illustre et grand Henry, 2002
Издатель: Alpha Productions / Alpha 032
Жанр: Classical
Формат файла: EAC / FLAC / CUE / LOG
Ссылка: CD
Нахождение: Torrent

Claude Lejeune (circa 1530 - 1600)

Muze honorons l'illustre et grand Henry
(Motets for the Catholic Religion and Protestant Psalms)


Label: Alpha Productions, Alpha 032
Year: 2002



Performers:

Claire Lefilliatre - soprano
Damien Guillon - counter-tenor
Bruno Le Levreur - counter-tenor
Jean-Francois Lombard - tenor
Bernard Arrieta - bass

Les Pages et Les Chantres de la Chapelle
Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles

Olivier Schneebeli - conductor



Tracklist:

1. Muze honorons...
2. Deum Celebrate Vocantes
3. Magnificat, a 4, 5, 6 & 7 voix
4. Adjuro Vos Filiae Hierusalem
5. Tristitia obsedit me
6. O Seigneur J'espars, Psaume
7. Quand pour Egipte eloigner, Psaumes 114 & 115
8. Loue tous ce Dieu qui est dous
9. Dieu, nous te louons (Te Deum a 6 voix)


Claude Le Jeune lived through one of the most troubled periods in French history. Several times, religious conflicts forced him to move and seek new patronage. Psalms in French, motets in Latin, sometimes using melodies from the Huguenot Psalter, sometimes borrowing plainchant melodies: the music on this programme is a fine illustration of the religious tolerance that many people aspired to in France at that time.

Henry of Navarre, a Huguenot, was required to convert to Roman Catholicism before he could be crowned Henry IV, King of France, in 1594. Claude le Jeune, also a Huguenot, was not required to convert when Henry appointed him Royal Composer in 1595 and thus was able to remain what he had always been, a devout French Protestant. In this survey of his settings of texts from both sides of the religious abyss that divided France in the sixteenth century, le Jeune shows himself as a great composer for either side. Indeed, although his setting of the Roman Catholic Magnificat is in the grand style of the state religion and his setting of the proto-Protestant Savonarola's meditation Tristitia obsedit me is in the austere style of the reformed faith, le Jeune never sounds less than wholly sincere, entirely spiritual, and utterly French. Olivier Schneebeli leads Les Pages & les Chantres at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in performances ideally unifying the divergent faiths in a common music of gentle...


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