Ensemble Clément Janequin
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The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the Renaissance and early Baroque.
The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse
. The group has recorded almost exclusively for the Harmonia Mundi label of the late Bernard Coutaz
since its inception.
An early line up of the Ensemble in 1985, for the Meslanges recording, included Josep Cabré (Baritone), Philippe Cantor (Baritone), Michel Laplénie (Tenor), Gérard Lesne
(Haute Contre), Agnès Mellon
(Soprano), Antoine Sicot (Bass) and direction Dominique Visse. Cabré, Laplénie, and Lesne all subsequently founded their own ensembles, as well as Bruno Boterf (tenor) who was a member of the Ensemble from 1987 to 2007 before founding his own vocal ensemble, Ludus Modalis.
The ensemble has recorded very little modern music but in 2009 recorded a selection of 19th Century and modern compositions extending the tradition of the renaissance genre of Les Cris de Paris entitled L'écrit du Cri. This collection featured Jean-Georges Kastner (1810–1867), Alfred Roland (fl.
1840), Alfred Lebeau (1835–1906), Louis-Édouard Deransart (d.1905), Vincent Scotto
(1876–1952) and several living French and Belgian composers; Claude Ledoux, Bruno Ducol (b.1949), Vincent Bouchot
(b.1966), Régis Campo (b. 1968).
The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse
Dominique Visse
Dominique Visse is a French countertenor and founder of the Ensemble Clément Janequin. Visse devotes himself to performing of secular and religious music of the Renaissance. He is principally known for his interpretations of the Parisian chansons.He was a chorister in the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
. The group has recorded almost exclusively for the Harmonia Mundi label of the late Bernard Coutaz
Bernard Coutaz
Bernard Coutaz was a French musical publisher, founder of the Harmonia Mundi label....
since its inception.
An early line up of the Ensemble in 1985, for the Meslanges recording, included Josep Cabré (Baritone), Philippe Cantor (Baritone), Michel Laplénie (Tenor), Gérard Lesne
Gérard Lesne
Gérard Lesne is a French countertenor. He also the founder and artistic director of the baroque music ensemble, Il Seminario Musicale...
(Haute Contre), Agnès Mellon
Agnès Mellon
Agnès Mellon is a French soprano specialized in the baroque repertoire, born in 1958.- Biography :Agnès Mellon started her career at the beginning of the 1980s with the baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants directed by William Christie, with whom, between 1981 and 1993, she interpreted Marc-Antoine...
(Soprano), Antoine Sicot (Bass) and direction Dominique Visse. Cabré, Laplénie, and Lesne all subsequently founded their own ensembles, as well as Bruno Boterf (tenor) who was a member of the Ensemble from 1987 to 2007 before founding his own vocal ensemble, Ludus Modalis.
The ensemble has recorded very little modern music but in 2009 recorded a selection of 19th Century and modern compositions extending the tradition of the renaissance genre of Les Cris de Paris entitled L'écrit du Cri. This collection featured Jean-Georges Kastner (1810–1867), Alfred Roland (fl.
Floruit
Floruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1840), Alfred Lebeau (1835–1906), Louis-Édouard Deransart (d.1905), Vincent Scotto
Vincent Scotto
Vincent Scotto was a French composer.-Biography:Vincent Scotto started his career in Marseille in 1906 and later moved to Paris. Over the course of a lifetime, he wrote 4,000 songs as well as sixty operettas. He was friends with Marcel Pagnol and wrote music for his films...
(1876–1952) and several living French and Belgian composers; Claude Ledoux, Bruno Ducol (b.1949), Vincent Bouchot
Vincent Bouchot
Vincent Bouchot is a French composer and musicologist. For many years he sang as baritone with the Ensemble Clément Janequin....
(b.1966), Régis Campo (b. 1968).
Selected discography
- 198? - Sermisy: Leçons de ténèbresLeçons de ténèbresLeçons de ténèbres, literally lessons of darkness, are a genre of French baroque music which developed from the polyphonic lamentations settings for the tenebrae service of Renaissance composers such as Sermisy, Gesualdo, Tallis, and Tomás Luis de Victoria into virtuoso solo chamber...
. Harmonia Mundi reedition 2004 HMX 2901131. - 1982 - Paschal de l'EstocartPaschal de l'EstocartPaschal de l'Estocart was a French Renaissance composer.Not much of his life is known. He was in Lyons between 1559 and 1565, and was married in the latter year. In his youth he is known to have visited Italy, but the exact years are not known...
Octonaires de la vanité du monde. Harmonia MundiHarmonia MundiHarmonia Mundi is an independent music record label founded in 1958 by Bernard Coutaz in Arles . The Latin phrase means "world harmony"....
1901110. - 1982 - Les Cris de Paris. Chansons de Janequin et Sermisy. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1072.
- 1983 - Janequin: Le chant des Oyseaulx. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1099.
- 1984 - Anthoine de Bertrand Amours de Ronsard. Harmonia Mundi 1901147.
- 1985 - Fricassée Parisienne. Chansons de la Renaissance française. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1174.
- 1985 - Claude Le JeuneClaude Le JeuneClaude Le Jeune was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century...
Meslanges. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble Les Eléments. Harmonia Mundi 1901182. - 1986 - Josquin: Missa Pange linguaMissa Pange linguaThe Missa Pange lingua is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life...
. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble OrganumEnsemble OrganumEnsemble Organum is a group performing early music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and is based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm Bothwell...
. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1239. - 1986 - Psaumes du XVIème. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble Les Eléments. Cascavelle 1001.
- 1987 - Heinrich SchützHeinrich SchützHeinrich Schütz was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century along with Claudio Monteverdi...
Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreutz. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse. Harmonia Mundi 1951255. - 1988 - Janequin: La Chasse et autres chansons. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1271.
- 1988 - Josquin Desprez: Adieu mes amours - Chansons. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble Les Eléments. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1279.
- 1989 - Pierre de la RuePierre de La RuePierre de la Rue , called Piersson, was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. A member of the same generation as Josquin des Prez, and a long associate of the Habsburg-Burgundian musical chapel, he ranks with Agricola, Brumel, Compère, Isaac, Obrecht, and Weerbeke as one of the...
: Missa "L'homme arméL'homme arméL'homme armé was a French secular song from the time of the Renaissance. It was the most popular tune used for musical settings of the Ordinary of the Mass: over 40 separate compositions entitled Missa L'homme armé survive from the period....
". Requiem. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1296. - 1991 - Les Plaisirs du Palais. Chansons à boire de la Renaissance. Harmonia Mundi 901729.
- 1991 - Lassus: Chansons and morescheMorescheMoresche is the plural of moresca, meaning Moorish thing, or Moorish girl in Italian. Both the singular and plural can refer to both a 15th~16th Century dance genre or to a 15th~16th Century song genre. This article concerns the genre of moresche, polyphonic "moorish" songs. For the dance, see...
. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1391. - 1992 - Banchieri: Barca di Venetia per Padova. Harmonia Mundi 901281.
- 1993 - VecchiVecchiVecchi is a plural form of Italian word "old"* Orazio Vecchi* Vecchi Editore* Villiam Vecchi* Cesare Maria De Vecchi* Renzo De Vecchi* Giovanni de' Vecchi* Paolo Vecchi* Arturo De Vecchi* Eligio Vecchi* Walter De Vecchi* Vecchi Ketchup Factory...
: L'Amfiparnaso. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1461. - 1993 - Chansons sur des poèmes de Ronsard. Songs on poems by Ronsard by François RegnardFrançois RegnardFrançois Regnard was a French renaissance composer. He studied and sang, and later was maître de chapelle at Tournai Cathedral. He is mainly remembered for his settings of Ronsard's chansons....
, Guillaume BoniGuillaume BoniGuillaume Boni was a French renaissance composer. Boni was choirmaster at Saint-Étienne Cathedral from 1565 until his death in or after 1594. Like Anthoine de Bertrand he was from Toulouse.-Works:...
, Jean de CastroJean de CastroJean de Castro was a Belgian Composer. Although he has virtually been forgotten in the revival of renaissance music he was during his life second only to Lassus in his popularity according to the Antwerp printer-publisher Christophe Plantin.Despite the Spanish-sounding name Castro was a local from...
and royal lutenist Albert de RippeAlbert de RippeAlbert de Rippe was an Italian lutenist and composer. He was born in Mantua and worked there before 1528, when he left for France. There, he joined the court of Francis I...
Harmonia Mundi 1951491. - 1994 - Une Fête chez Rabelais. Chansons et pièces instrumentales. Harmonia Mundi HMX 298 1453.
- 1995 - Janequin: Missa "La Bataille". Missa "L'aveuglé Dieu". Harmonia Mundi HMA 190 1536.
- 1996 - Le Jeune: Missa "Ad Placitum". MagnificatMagnificatThe Magnificat — also known as the Song of Mary or the Canticle of Mary — is a canticle frequently sung liturgically in Christian church services. It is one of the eight most ancient Christian hymns and perhaps the earliest Marian hymn...
. Harmonia Mundi 901607. - 1997 - Canciones y Ensaladas. Chansons et pièces instrumentales du Siècle d'Or. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1627.
- 1998 - Psaumes et Chansons de la Réforme. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1672.
- 2003 - BrumelBrumelBrumel may refer to:* Antoine Brumel , Franco-Flemish Renaissance composer* Giaches Brumel, also known as Jacques Brunel , 16th century French organist and composer...
: Missa "Et ecce terrae motus. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse. Harmonia Mundi 901738. - 2005 - Claude Le JeuneClaude Le JeuneClaude Le Jeune was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as musique mesurée, and a significant composer of the "Parisian" chanson, the predominant secular form in France in the latter half of the 16th century...
Autant en emporte le vent Chansons. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1863. - 2010 - Rabelais - Fay ce que vouldras with readings in French from PantagruelPantagruelPantagruel is an international Early Music ensemble specialising in semi-staged performances of Renaissance music. The group was formed in Essen, Germany at the end of 2002 by the English lutenist Mark Wheeler and the German born Dominik Schneider...
. Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse. Kelys / Flora.