This album takes its title from that of a 1610 publication of works by Eustache du Caurroy, a court composer to three French kings of the later sixteenth century; "Les Meslanges" (or mélanges) means the mixture, and seems to refer to the assortment of genres contained therein. Du Caurroy is known sparsely in France and hardly at all elsewhere, but a disc like this shows how the repertoire of Renaissance music unearthed hitherto depended heavily on the interests of the small group of scholars who studied the music and made ...
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This album takes its title from that of a 1610 publication of works by Eustache du Caurroy, a court composer to three French kings of the later sixteenth century; "Les Meslanges" (or mélanges) means the mixture, and seems to refer to the assortment of genres contained therein. Du Caurroy is known sparsely in France and hardly at all elsewhere, but a disc like this shows how the repertoire of Renaissance music unearthed hitherto depended heavily on the interests of the small group of scholars who studied the music and made performing editions of it. Simply put, these pieces -- psalms, chansons, "cantiques spirituels" or spiritual songs, short instrumental pieces, and a uniquely French genre called Noëls -- are forgotten masterpieces.Perhaps they were forgotten because du Caurroy was a conservative, compositionally speaking. Broadly speaking, scholars have focused in recent decades on the genres of this period that pointed toward the future -- in France, the so-called air de cour especially. These works...
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