Printemps: Claude de Jeune 1528?-1600
Saturday 31 October 1992, 5pm
Pre-concert talk 4.30pm
Adam Concert Room
School of Music
Victoria University of Wellington
Kelburn
Wellington
Directed by Simon Ravens
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.
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
This concert was part of the 1992 Performance Series.