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Aux marches du palais

‘Diapason d’Or’ in Diapason
‘Choc’ in Le Monde de la Musique
Recommended by Répertoire
5 stars in Goldberg
5 in Classica
5 stars in Amadeus (Italy)

Songs were the traditional means of preserving the history of a country, a region, a family or a king. French songs, which underwent a myriad of transformations over the years, are often masterpieces of melodic invention, and can be situated somewhere between the popular and learned styles. Over the past two centuries they became the basis of the body of songs that every French child learns in infancy. Our goal was to return to the sources of these songs, retrace their histories, rediscover the original texts and delve into ancient song collections – from the fifteenth-century Bayeux manuscript to the printed songbooks of the eighteenth century – in order to provide authentic versions of the best-known repertoire in France even today.

Cast:
Claire Lefilliâtre, Serge Goubioud voices
Marco Horvat voice and medieval fiddle
Sylvie Moquet treble viol
Friederike Heumann, Françoise Enock bass viols
William Dongois cornett
Pierre Hamon bagpipe, flutes and drum
Christophe Tellart hurdy-gurdy
Joël Grare percussion
Vincent Dumestre citole, Baroque guitar, theorbo; conductor

Programm:
Traditional French romances and laments: J’ai vu le loup, le renard chanter, Le roi Renaud, La Pernette, L’amour de moy, En passant par la Lorraine, Une jeune fillette, La fille au Roi Louis, Le 31 du mois d’août, Aux marches du palais, Réveillez-vous belle endormie, Le roi a fait battre tambour, La moliera qu’a nau escus, La complainte de Mandrin, Sarremilhoque
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