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Le Cœur et la Raison

La Nereide

Label
ADAADAT
Catalogue number
ADA0054
Release date
29 June 2018
In the 17th century, a vocal song form experienced its heyday, especially in France: the so-called air de cour. Numerous composers met the demands of the nobility, at whose courts the songs were performed by soloists with lute accompaniment. The beauty of the melodies was the highest criterion; the secular texts dealt almost exclusively with interpersonal love. This was the reason why folk songs were not allowed to be sung in churches and monasteries. The Franciscan monk François Berthod therefore changed some texts into sacred songs, so that nuns could sing them too. The album by the ensemble La Néréide contains a selection of famous airs de cours and several sacred versions. The three sopranos are accompanied by instrumentalists in various combinations (lute, theorbo, viola da gamba, organ). Their programme was created with an underlying story: a fictional young noblewoman living in a church boarding school discovers beautiful secular songs during a holiday with her family and transforms them together with her classmates into sacred pieces so that she can sing them in a religious setting. A not entirely implausible fairy tale that makes the discovery of the songs quite exciting.
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Tracklist

  1. 01 Je ne sais pas ce que je sens 02:49
  2. 02 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: I. Miserere mei Deus 03:19
  3. 03 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: II. Quoniam in iniquitatem meam 02:55
  4. 04 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: III. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus 01:51
  5. 05 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: IV. Asperges me hyssopo 04:00
  6. 06 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: V. Averte faciem tuam 02:57
  7. 07 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: VI. Docebo iniquos vias tuas 01:44
  8. 08 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: VII. Libera me 03:25
  9. 09 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: VIII. Sacrificium Deo 02:56
  10. 10 Miserere mei Deus, C. 116: IX. Tunc acceptabis 02:06
  11. 11 L'âme contente dans sa solitude 02:55
  12. 12 Quand une âme est bien atteinte 04:23
  13. 13 J'aime, je suis aimée 03:31
  14. 14 Miserere: I. Miserere mei Deus 04:12
  15. 15 Miserere: II. Ecce enim in iniquitatibus 04:34
  16. 16 Miserere: III. Averte faciem tuam 03:11
  17. 17 Miserere: IV. Docebo iniquos vias tua 01:35
  18. 18 Miserere: V. Libera me 01:46
  19. 19 Miserere: VI. Domine labia mea aperies 00:54
  20. 20 Miserere: VII. Quoniam si voluisses sacrificium 01:07
  21. 21 Miserere: VIII. Sacrificium Deo 01:57
  22. 22 Miserere: IX. Benigne fac Domine 00:32
  23. 23 Miserere: X. Tunc acceptabis 02:07
  24. 24 Lorsqu'avec une ardeur extrême 03:48
  25. 25 Le pénitent dans le désert 03:21
  26. 26 Je m'abandonne à vous 03:42
  27. 27 Laisse-moi soupirer, importune raison 03:29

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