Sermisy & Janequin

Les Cris de Paris
Chansons de Janequin et Sermisy
Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi HM 1072 [LP]
Harmonia Mundi HM 40 1072 [Cass.]
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1072 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "Suite" HMS 790 1072 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "musique d'abord" HMA 195 1072 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Janequin: Voulez ouyr les cris de Paris
  2. Sermisy: Languir me fais
  3. Sermisy: Je n'ay plus d'affection
  4. Adrian de Roy: Je n'ay plus d'affection (lute)
  5. Sermisy: Là, là, Maistre Pierre
  6. Janequin: Ung mari se voulant coucher
  7. Sermisy: Secourez moy
  8. Janequin: Du Beau Tétin
  9. Janequin: Or vien ça
  10. Janequin: La Bataille
  11. Janequin: La Meusnière de Vernon
  12. Sermisy: Dont vient cela
  13. Sermisy: L'amour, la mort et la vie
  14. Sermisy: Martin menoit son pourceau
  15. Francesco da Milano: Las, je m'y plains (lute)
  16. Janequin: Au joly jeu
  17. Sermisy: Joyssance vous donneray
  18. Sermisy: Au joly boys
  19. Sermisy: Tu disoys que j'en mourroys

Performers: Dominique Visse (countertenor), Michel Laplenie (tenor), Philippe Cantor (tenor), Antoine Sicot (bass), Claude Deboves (lute)

Playing time: 50'

Recording date: April 1981;
Rel.: 1982 (HM), 1984 (HMC), 2005 (HMA)

Excerpts:
[8] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20 [CDx5] Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles
[8] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8171 [CD] A History of Music, vol. 9: Chansons, Madrigaux & Songs à la Renaissance (1500-1600) / Songs & Madrigals from the Renaissance - Chansons de la Renaissance / Songs of the Renaissance

Aside from the important & bouyant, and relatively better-known, works of Clément Janequin, the present collection contains an important program of chansons by Claudin de Sermisy (c.1490-1562), probably the second most important French secular composer of the mid-16th century. Sermisy's chansons frequently appear as examples and in reprints, although paradoxically often without attribution. His similarly large volume of sacred music is much less well-known today.

A recording by the present ensemble devoted to Sermisy:

Sermisy: Leçons de Ténèbres
Ensemble Clément Janequin
Harmonia Mundi "Curiosita" 290 1131

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Todd M. McComb