Printemps: Claude de Jeune 1528?-1600


Claude de Jeune ranks as one of the most original composers of the Renaissance. His expressive harmonic language and gifts as a melodist can easily disguise the striking novelty of his approach to rhythm and large-scale structures. Printemps is a collection of 39 spring chansons encompassing a variety of vocal scorings, from three to eight voices, and an equal variety of moods, from delicate bergerettes to comic rustic and "animal" chansons. Such was its power to move that during his lifetime Le Jeune's music was jealously guarded by his musical circle in Paris, and only published after his death. This performance was given with the singers sitting around a circular table and surrounded by the audience.

This performance was part of the Printemps a Paris series

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Programme

    Voicy du gay Printems
    Revecy venir du Printans
    Si Jupiter s'aviztoit
    O Roze reyne des fleurs
    Ma mignonne

    Interval

    Du trist' hyver
    Cigne je suis de candeur
    Le chant du Rossignol
    Le chant de l'Alouette

5pm*, Saturday 31 October 1992
Adam Concert Room, School of Music
Victoria University of Wellington
$20 / $12
* pre-concert talk at 4.30pm

dir. Simon Ravens

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