DANSES DE LA COUR ET DES VILLAGES AU XVIe SIECLE
COURT AND VILLAGES DANCES IN THE XVIth CENTURY
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy
Florilegium Musicum de Paris
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Grands interprètes/Great performers
CBS, 1975, CBS 76183
This ensemble was one of the pioneers in the new interest in Early music in France (see my post in February 2022).
This album was (for me anyway) a very good surprise with a range of instruments rarely used before. Hence a rich sound texture with rebec and viols, sackbut and trumpets, recorders, organ and harpsichord. The repertoire is French and German from the XVIth century when printing helped to spread this music all over Europe including Hungary and Poland.
Track B4 is more medieval with a famous piece for organ by Conrad Paumann and two other tunes.
This is an instrumental album for, as it is said in the introductory text, instrumental music gained in freedom in relation to vocal music. Because of this new demand instrument makers created full families of instruments to compete with vocal music (for example from the sopranino recorder down to contrabass recorder that is over two meters long).
The composers are Claude Gervaise, Michael Praetorius, Robert Ballard or Tielman Susato among others.
No names are mentionned for the performers but Malgoire's who was both the leader and the bombarde (oboe) player.
Text in French only
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