Les Musiciens De Saint-julien: A L'ombre D'un Or

Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien; François Lazarevitch

Suite de trois Branles de village (Borjon de Scellery) - Bobbing Joe - Excuse me - Red House (Playford); Pourquoy doux rossignol (de Bousset); Le beau berger Tircis; La Magnotte - La petite Jeanneton - Les 6 visages; J'avois crû qu'en vous aymant; La Furstemberg - La Royalle; L'amour m'a fait un beau présent - Je me levé un matin - Malbrough - La Mississipy; Que mon martire me seroit doux - Ou êtes-vous allé mes belles amourettes - Ah! que ces bois, ces ruisseaux, ces fontaines; Rondement - Gaiment - Légérement (Boismortier); Doucement - Mouveement de chaconne (boismortier); Heureux qui peut plaire - La Jeune Iris; La Caroline - Le Sabotier; Dans nos bois - L'amant le plus fidèle; J'ai du bon tabac - Menuet d'Isis - Menuet d'Alcide - Menuet à quatre; Musette des Fêtes d'Hébé - A l'ombre d'un ormeau; La Provencalle - Tambourin des Fêtes de Polymnie - La Ramoneuse

The Brunettes repertoire of popular XVIIth and XVIIIth century songs and refrains featured in this recording is an important part of the French musical landscape, although it has so far not reached much attention. The main reason is that it is fragile and discreet. No great displays, no feathers, no pomp! Only charm, lightness and touchingly naïve; timeless French "esprit"! Song and dance - and it's not surprising that so many dances are also songs - share a fundamental intolerance to complexity, to mannerism as stated by Montéclair in his foreword to this collection. Their very function implies simplicity. But if their complexity is invisible, it is nevertheless real and so they've been an important feature in teaching and the formation of the nation's musical tastes.

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