Works by Le Jeune
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Composer or Director: Claude Le Jeune
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 5/1986
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: HMC40 1182
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Que je porte d'envie |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je me n'élève icy |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Tu ne l'enten pas |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je ne me plain |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Susanne un jour |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| (Le) Chant de l'Alouette |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Quelle eau, quelle air |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je voulou baiser ma rebelle |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je suis déshéritée |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Allons, allons gay |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Debat la nostre trill' en May |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Mais gui es-tu, dy moi |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| (3) Fantaisies |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
Composer or Director: Claude Le Jeune
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Magazine Review Date: 5/1986
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: HMC1182
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Que je porte d'envie |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je me n'élève icy |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Tu ne l'enten pas |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je ne me plain |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Susanne un jour |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| (Le) Chant de l'Alouette |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Quelle eau, quelle air |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je voulou baiser ma rebelle |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Je suis déshéritée |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Allons, allons gay |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Debat la nostre trill' en May |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| Mais gui es-tu, dy moi |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Clément) Janequin Ensemble (Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
| (3) Fantaisies |
Claude Le Jeune, Composer
(Les) Eléments Viol Ensemble Claude Le Jeune, Composer |
Author:
This is a most engaging and not at all recherche recording of late renaissance vocal and instrumental music. The clement Janequin Ensemble's deft representative choice of music by Le Jeune amply serves to confirm his claim to be reckoned one of the finest French composers of his day. Their superb performance is equally multifaceted whether for five voices alone or accompanied by lute and viols.
The 12 chanson texts fall into two main categories: love songs, joyful or melancholy, and bawdyvoix-de-villes (vaudevilles); and there is also a thoughtful apostrophic dialogue with Religion. Le Jeune's settings are elegantly balanced with flowing counterpoint on the one hand and on the other the noble simplicity of musique mesuree (music whose rhythms are wholly determined by syllabic quantities).
Melancholy is conveyed by syllabic settins with gentle countrapuntal elaboration, as inQue je porte d'envie and Je ne me plain, and most poignantly in Quelle eau, quel air, where poetic form and meaning are underscored by changes fo texture and harmonic language: Le Jeune set the tercet in which each line begins ''Si je meurs'' (''If I die'') with intensely chromatic counterpoint in the disconcerting manner of Marenzio or Gesualdo. The earthy vaudevilles are well served by quick, imitative settings. Here the singers adjust their tone to a nasal sound akin to crumhorns and shawms. Tu ne l'enten pas is saucily thrown off. Janequin's brilliant onomatopoeic. Chant de l'Alouette, with Le Jeune's addition of a further voice is given a sparkling clear performance, and the Debat la nostre trill' en May, in Gascon dialect, is done in virtuoso fashion. The last and only sacred offering on th is record is the poised and moving Mais qui es tu, dy moi, in which the lower voices put questions to the personification of religion, sung by the upper voices.
If in this repertory poetry is put before music, Le Jeune's music is the more beautiful and ingenious precisely because of that limitation. Thus, his instrumental music—a lute transcription of the delightful Susanne un jour, here played by Claude Deboves, and three of the earliest extant French viol fantaisies, ably played by Les Elements Ensemble—seems, however attractive, somehow incomplete. The recording marvellously capture the dark and sonorous quality inherent in the music and brought to life particularly by the singers.'
The 12 chanson texts fall into two main categories: love songs, joyful or melancholy, and bawdy
Melancholy is conveyed by syllabic settins with gentle countrapuntal elaboration, as in
If in this repertory poetry is put before music, Le Jeune's music is the more beautiful and ingenious precisely because of that limitation. Thus, his instrumental music—a lute transcription of the delightful Susanne un jour, here played by Claude Deboves, and three of the earliest extant French viol fantaisies, ably played by Les Elements Ensemble—seems, however attractive, somehow incomplete. The recording marvellously capture the dark and sonorous quality inherent in the music and brought to life particularly by the singers.'
Works by Le Jeune
Works by Le Jeune
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