New CDs with Early Music. William Christie’s French company Les Arts Florissants released a new CD in 2021: “N’espérez plus, mes yeux.” Court songs from the second half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th century. It is part 3 of the CD series “Airs sérieux et à boire”, so that promises variety.
More variety today by older instrumental and vocal works by French baroque masters Jean-Baptiste Lully and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
Pierre Guédron (approx. 1565-1620)
1. Bien qu’un cruel martire
Antoine Boësset (1587-1643)
2. N’espérez plus, mes yeux
Étienne Moulinié (1599-1676)
3. Ô doux sommeil
4. Dans le lit de la mort
Pierre Guédron
5. Belle qui m’avez blessé
Anonymous
6. Suite instrumentale: bransle, gay, bransle à mener, double
Emmanuelle de Négri, soprano. Marc Mauillon, baritone. Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie
(CD: N’espérez plus, mes yeux… Airs sérieux et à boire vol.3, Harmonia Mundi HAF 8905318, 2021)
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
7. Omnes gentes
8. O sapientia
Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie
(CD: Lully, petits motets, Harmonia Mundi 901274)
Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
From ‘Idyle en musique Les Arts florissants’:
9. Scene 4
10. Scene 5 Chaconne
Additional:
11. Overture
Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie
(CD: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Les Arts florissants H.487, Harmonia Mundi HMX 2908142)
