Track Listing

1. Le Printans: Revecy venir du printans
2. Le Printans: Voicy le verd et beau May
3. Le Printans: O Roze reyne des fleurs
4. Le Printans: Ie l'ay, ie l'ay la belle fleur
5. Le Printans: Cigne ie suis de candeur
6. Le Printans: Perdre le sens devant vous
7. Le Printans: La brunelette violette reflorit
8. Le Printans: L'un emera le violet
9. Le Printans: D'un coeur fier le refus cruel
10. Le Printans: Que null' etoille sur nous
11. Le Printans: Ces amoureus n'ont que douleur et tourment
12. Le Printans: La bele gloire, le bel honeur doner

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #518402 in Music
• Released on: 1996-12-10
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
You can either listen to this recording and just enjoy the sound of these engaging, vibrant, rhythmically interesting chansons--or, you can get into the details of the origin and construction of this unique collection. Le Jeune was a member of an elite group of musicians and poets in 16th-century Paris, led by poet Jean-Antoine de Baif. To oversimplify, Baif wanted to join poetry and music in a very refined, highly specific manner, concentrating on different kinds of metrical accents, alternating long and short stresses. His poems under the title Le Printans were written with this in mind--and Le Jeune developed a special compositional technique to complement the texts and to illustrate these aesthetic principles. Whether or not you care about the underlying structure of the music, the results displayed in these exceptionally polished performances are striking, especially in the clarity of the lines and the range of expression. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommended
This is a wonderful recording of one of the best early music groups on top form. I thoroughly recommend this CD - it is one of my favourites.