Composer: Joseph Chabanceau de la Barre
Performer: Claire Lefilliâtre, Luc Bertin-Hugault, Agnès Boissonnot-Guilbault, Mathias Ferré, Nicolas Wattinne, Les Épopées
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Ramée
Catalogue: RAM2302
Release: 2024
Size: 2.71 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Allez, Bergers, dessus l’herbette
02. Forêts solitaires et sombres
03. Ah ! je sens que mon cœur
04. Si c’est un bien que l’espérance
05. Il faut aimer une bergère
06. Depuis quinze jusqu’à trente
07. Un feu naissant vient d’enflammer mon cœur
08. Allons revoir l’objet de mon tourment
09. Tu crois, ô beau soleil
10. Sospiri, ohimé
11. Récit sur la convalescence du Roy
Pièces pour clavecin de Monsieur de La Barre
12. Prélude
13. Sarabande
14. Gigue
15. Vous demandez pour qui mon cœur soupire
16. Pavane d’Angleterre
17. Quand une âme est bien atteinte
18. Cessez Climène de faire voir
19. Plus je pense à ma maîtresse
The fashionable literary salons of Paris were centres of experimentation in the refined art of conversation that expressed an idealised vision of love as well as a most poetic depiction of aristocratic society. The women who founded these salons, such as the Marquise de Rambouillet and Madeleine de Scudery, exerted a considerable influence on social culture and its fashion for preciosite, creating a poetic style whose inevitably plaintive accents would swiftly lead lovers who frequented such salons down the winding paths of the pays de Tendre. “The true character of those who love is composed of tenderness and plaintiveness”, according to Abbe Charles Cotin — and music was employed as a means of expressing every nuance of amorous feeling that many poets of the style galant took great pains to depict. The musicians who were most in vogue would then take their galant verses and set them to song in the form of airs serieux, a genre which dominated all secular French music for most of the reign of Louis XIV. This album, a world premiere recording, is devoted to the airs serieux of Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre, a scion of one of the most prestigious families of French musicians of the 17th century.