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    Luis De Briceno: El Fenix De Paris / Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique
    Alpha

    Luis De Briceno: El Fenix De Paris / Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    DE BRICENO, LUIS
    Artist
    Le Poeme Harmonique, Dumestre
    Released
    Oct 11, 2011

    Luis de Briceño’s arrival in France was marked by a wave of enthusiasm. The Spaniard was at the heart of a polemic that questioned the supremacy of the lute, an instrument cherished by French music lovers at the beginning of the 17th century. Our rekindled interest lies not in this controversy, but in the beauty of Briceño’s compositions and the freedom they offer the musicians who play them. On this album, we discover Le Poème Harmonique in a repertoire bearing the marked touch of popular Spanish music, accompanied by the delightful song of Isabelle Druet and Claire Lefilliâtre.

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  • Luis De Briceno: El Fenix De Paris / Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    Luis De Briceno: El Fenix De Paris / Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    Alpha Oct 2011
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
    • Ostinato / Vincent Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique
    Alpha

    Ostinato / Vincent Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    CD · 1 disc

    $11.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Dumestre, Poeme Harmonique
    Released
    Jan 08, 2013

    The Ostinato literally went through ages... It's a musical process founded on the repetition of a rhythmic, or melodic, or harmonic formula. It's the 'weft' of passacaglias, ciacconas... and of very popular works such as Ravel's Boléro, or Pachelbel's Canon. This process also inspired a lot of pop musicians, or minimalist American composers. Vincent Dumestre chose this way to propose, as much to 'fans' as to the general public, a thematic route within the best Poème Harmonique's recordings. It's at the same time a sort of Poème Harmonique's portrait, proposed at a very attractive price...

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  • Ostinato / Vincent Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    Ostinato / Vincent Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    Alpha Jan 2013
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.99
    • La Guitare de Louis XIV
    Château de Versailles Spectacles

    La Guitare de Louis XIV

    CD · 1 disc

    $20.99
    Composer
    Angelo Michele Bartolotti, Antoine Boesset, Luis de Briceno, Francesco Corbetta, Giovanni Paolo Fosc
    Artist
    Lea Masson, Lili Aymonino, Marco Angioloni, Louise Ayrton, Arnaud Conde, Natacha Gauthier, Julien Go
    Released
    Nov 28, 2025
    In addition to his reputation as a dancer, the Sun King was also a musician. Under the enlightened influence of his mother, Anne of Austria, the young Louis XIV learned to play the lute and then the guitar. Once relegated to commoners, this instrument became a symbol of royal refinement. Beyond simple entertainment, this musical craze served a political purpose: to seduce the court and the people, and to weave harmony between French, Italian and Spanish cultures. Like a new King David, monarch-musician par excellence, Louis XIV crafted the image of an Apollonian sovereign, master of the arts as much as of power. Together with exceptional musicians, Lea Masson reveals this forgotten facet of the guitarist king!
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  • La Guitare de Louis XIV

    La Guitare de Louis XIV

    Château de Versailles Spectacles Nov 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $20.99
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    • Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar
    Challenge Classics

    Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar

    CD · 1 disc

    $16.99
    Composer
    Fahmi Alqhai, Henry de Bailly, Carles Blanch, Luis de Briceno, Antonio de Cabezon, Antonio Martin y
    Artist
    Quiteria Munoz Fahmi Alqhai, Accademia del Piacere
    Released
    Apr 11, 2025
    Challenge Classics is proud to present the first collaboration with reputed Spanish ensemble Accademia del Piacere. Accademia del Piacere for about ten records which have received several awards around the world. This new recording by Accademia del Piacere focuses on the work of improvisation, ornamentation, embellishment on famous Baroque tunes of the Spanish baroque - according to 17th Century style and practice. Once more Accadmia del Piacere delivers a disc full of energy, colours and invention, faithful to it's name: Academy of Pleasure.
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  • Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar

    Spain On Fire - Divine and human passions in the Spanish Bar

    Challenge Classics Apr 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $16.99
    1. Airs de cour
    2. Airs de cour
    Alpha

    Airs de cour

    CD · 2 discs

    $29.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Le Poeme Harmonique, Dumestre
    Released
    Oct 25, 2019
    For more than a century, from the last Valois kings to the early years of the reign of Louis XIV, the air de cour was truly the emblematic genre of French secular music. The term bears witness to the influence on and transformation by worldly and literate circles of vocal genres of popular origin such as the vaudeville, combined with Italian influences (the villanella), based on the principles of a simple strophic musical setting that facilitated understanding of the poetic text. Three composers dominated the production of airs de cour in the reigns of Henry IV and Louis XIII, bringing the genre to it's peak: Pierre Guédron (1565-1620), Antoine Boesset (1587-1643) and Étienne Moulinié (1599-1676). To mark the twentieth anniversary of his ensemble, Vincent Dumestre has chosen to celebrate the air de cour by bringing together excerpts from his five recordings devoted to the genre. A book accompanies this double album, including an article written by Thomas Leconte of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, a rich array of illustrations and an article on the historical context by Alexandre Maral, Curator General at the Musée National du Château de Versailles.
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  • Airs de cour

    Airs de cour

    Alpha Oct 2019
    2 discs
    CD
    $29.99
    • Por los Montes de Conares, Music & Erotism in the Spanish Go
    Brilliant Classics

    Por los Montes de Conares, Music & Erotism in the Spanish Go

    CD · 1 disc

    $9.99 $12.99 Save 23%
    Composer
    Alonso de Alba, Juan Aranes, Juan Blas de Castro, Juan del Enzina, Diego Pisandor, Antonio de Ribera
    Artist
    Amystis, La Chimera Consort
    Released
    Mar 21, 2025
    Saucy songs of sex, love and life in the Spanish Golden Age, revived and performed with relish by a native early-music ensemble. Of the 10 composers featured on this entertaining new album, only two have any claim to fame: Juan del Encina (1468-1529) and Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710). The others will be discoveries for even the most assiduous collectors of early music: the likes of Luis de Briceno, Diego Pisador, Juan Bon and Juan Aranes. This rarity value, appealing in itself, is perhaps less germane to the character of the album than the bawdy and boisterous character of the whole. Many of the melodies may have originated as settings of sacred texts, but they became attached to decidedly profane verses: one song to the tune of another, as it were. The booklet essay exposes the many double-entendres latent within both texts and settings. Several are couched in explicitly anti-clerical vein, mocking the clergy for their hypocrisy and priapism. Other texts rejoice in the pleasures of hedonism, for both men and women, inviting the listener to enjoy by proxy the prospect of threesomes and happy endings. In the nature of such songs, the music swaps sophistication for good, simple fun, based on strong Spanish rhythms, rooted in chaconne and folia ground basses. Several of them were originally sung as verses and chorus, with everyone present joining in. There are also seguidillas of a more erotic and sensual nature, but the texts still appeal to the listener with a dirty mind. These reconstructions accordingly seek to recapture the rough and tumble of a late-night session at a grimy bar in 17th-century Burgos. Not, perhaps, an album for those who like their music on the straight and narrow. Led by Jose Duce Chenoll, Amystis has a track record of success in unearthing both sacred and profane musical treasures from Golden-Age Spain. 'Chenoll has an endearing way of letting his singers express the music with a natural flow free of effects.' (Fanfare on works by Joan Bautista Comes, 95231). - This highly interesting and original concept album presents vocal works from 16th century Spain dealing with eroticism in all it's forms. - In this music we find the vivid expression of the amorous, sexual, private and at the same time playful life of a society which gave expression to it's impulses and passions, thus describing a vivid sound tapestry of Spain's Golden Age of Juan del Encina, Garcilaso, Cervantes, Lope de Vega and Gongora. - Presented are works by many, nowadays forgotten, composers. The excellent, comprehensive and scientific liner notes explain the text of each song, illustrating the often double meaning of certain words and phrases. - The title of the CD takes up the title of a poem by an anonymous Spanish poet ("Through the mountains of Conares - Sung by the Amystis solo vocalists and played by a rich instrumental group including viola da gamba, recorders, vihuela and percussion, everything under the direction of Jose Duce Chenoll.
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  • Por los Montes de Conares, Music & Erotism in the Spanish Go
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    Por los Montes de Conares, Music & Erotism in the Spanish Go

    Brilliant Classics Mar 2025
    1 disc
    CD
    $12.99 $9.99Save 23%