Le Jeune: Le Printemps
- Le Jeune: Le Printans
- Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Sony Vivarte 68259
Contents:
- Revecy venir du printans, No. 2 à 2, 3, 4 & 5
- Voicy le verd et beau May, No. 8 à 4 & 6
- O Rôze reyne dés fleurs, No. 10 à 3, 4
& 5
- Ie l'ay, ie l'ay la belle fleur, No. 14 à 3 & 5
- Cigne ie suis de candeur, No. 17 à 3 & 5
- Perdre le sens devant vous, No. 19 à 3 & 5
- La brunelette violette reflorit, No. 26 à 3 & 5
- L'un émera le violét, No. 27 à 3 &
5
- D'un coeur fier le refus cruél, No. 30 à 3 &
5
- Que null' étoille sur nous, No. 31 à 3 &
5
- Ces amoureus n'ont que douleur et tourment, No. 34 à 3
& 5
- La Béle gloire, le bél honeur doner, No. 38
à 3 & 5
Performers: Pascal Bertin (countertenor), Lieven Deroo (bass),
Otto Rastbichler (tenor), Eitan Sorek (tenor), Marie-Claude Vallin
(superius), Marius van Altena (baritone), Ellen van Ham (superius),
Els Van Laethem (superius), Bart Coen (recorders), Peter De Clercq
(recorders), Baldrick Deerenberg (recorders), Christine Kyprienides
(viol), Gail Ann Schroeder (viol), Piet Strijckers (viol)
Playing time: 63'
Recording date: April 1995; released: 1996
This recording shows why Le Jeune is regarded as one of the most
original voices of the era. Le Printans is an extensive setting
of texts by Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532-1589), making use of
what Le Jeune terms musique mésurés à
l'antique (a system in which syllables would be given rhythmic
values corresponding to their phonetic content, making a declamatory
style supposed to be evocative of Greek antiquity). This is by
far his most extensive cycle in the form.
A more recent interpretation:
- Le Jeune: Le Printemps
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 069
Other recordings illustrating some of Le Jeune's other songs
& French psalms:
- Le Jeune: Airs & Pseaumes
- Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Hungaroton 32189
- Autant en emporte le vent
- Le Jeune: Chansons
Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi 901863
- Le Jeune: Dodécacorde
- Ensemble Vocal Sagittarius - Michel Laplénie
Accord 206 752
- Le Jeune: Airs et Psaumes mesurés à l'Antique
- Claudine Ansermet / Paolo Cherici
Symphonia 99174
Le Jeune also wrote some enigmatic Latin sacred music, in an
equally original style. A good selection:
- Le Jeune: Missa Ad Placitum / Magnificat
- Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
Harmonia Mundi 901607
And a mixed program by the present ensemble:
- The Treasures of Claude Le Jeune
- Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (Sony)
88843022442
Finally, a classic recording of the complete Printemps cycle:
- Le Jeune: Le Printemps
- Ensemble Jacques Feuillie
Arion 268316 (2 CDs)
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Todd M. McComb