Doulce Mémoire and Denis Raisin Dadre – L’Amour de moy (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Doulce Mémoire and Denis Raisin Dadre – L’Amour de moy (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 54:02 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

Doulce mémoire here delves into the repertoire of French songs that were central to the first printed score in the history of music, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (Venice, 1501). This repertoire dates from the end of the 15th century and includes music from not only the French and Burgundian courts but also from the chanson rustique, a new genre that was in use at the court of Louis XII (1462-1515). This singular repertoire is based on popular melodies that dealt with everyday, amorous, erotic and satirical subjects; the texts have an irregular versification that was known as ‘rural rhetoric’ at that time.

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Denis Raisin-Dadre, Ensemble Doulce Mémoire – Le printemps (2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Denis Raisin-Dadre, Ensemble Doulce Mémoire – Le printemps (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:03:55 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo

Recréer le chant de la Grèce antique était l’idéal des compositeurs de la Renaissance. Le printemps (publié en 1603) de Le Jeune — sur des textes de Jean-Antoine de Baïf (1532-1589) qui cherche à appliquer à la langue française les qualités métriques de la poésie de l’Antiquité — est le recueil le plus célèbre de “chansons mesurées à l’antique” dans lesquelles les syllabes longues et courtes des paroles sont rigoureusement assignées aux notes blanches et noires de la musique, créant une intéressante asymétrie rythmique. Dans sa préface de la première édition, Le Jeune écrit que si la musique grecque antique fut pauvre en harmonie (accompagnée d’une simple lyre), « la rythmique a été mise par les anciens en telle perfection qu’ils en ont fait des effets merveilleux ». Enregistré par Arion en 1975 (seule intégrale jamais réalisée de l’ouvrage composé de 39 pièces), voici en partie (12 chansons) ce Printemps de Le Jeune dans une interprétation nouvelle pleine de fraîcheur, marquée par une grande variété métrique rappelant les rythmes des danses de la Renaissance.

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Denis Raisin Dadre, Doulce Mémoire – François Ier, musiques d’un règne, Vol. 2: Musique pour la chambre du Roy (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Denis Raisin Dadre, Doulce Mémoire – François Ier, musiques d’un règne, Vol. 2: Musique pour la chambre du Roy (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:17:20 minutes | 1,26 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zig-Zag Territoires

Francis I, as a princely patron of the arts, realised that music was a very useful tool for his policy of prestige: official music for great diplomatic events like the amazing musical ‘tournament’ between the Chapelle of the King of France and the Chapel Royal of Henry VIII of England at the Mass for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, reconstructed in this recording. But also more intimate music with the exceptionally subtle, refined and learned repertory to be heard in the monarch’s châteaux such as Chambord and Fontainebleau, performed by the finest singers and instrumentalists of the realm under the aegis of the Chambre du Roi. Here is a feast of previously unrecorded music for King Francis I, the symbol of a happy Renaissance.

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Denis Raisin Dadre, Doulce Mémoire – François Ier, musiques d’un règne, Vol. 1: Messe pour le camp du Drap d’Or, 1520 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Denis Raisin Dadre, Doulce Mémoire – François Ier, musiques d’un règne, Vol. 1: Messe pour le camp du Drap d’Or, 1520 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:12:45 minutes | 1,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Zig-Zag Territoires

Francis I, as a princely patron of the arts, realised that music was a very useful tool for his policy of prestige: official music for great diplomatic events like the amazing musical ‘tournament’ between the Chapelle of the King of France and the Chapel Royal of Henry VIII of England at the Mass for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, reconstructed in this recording. But also more intimate music with the exceptionally subtle, refined and learned repertory to be heard in the monarch’s châteaux such as Chambord and Fontainebleau, performed by the finest singers and instrumentalists of the realm under the aegis of the Chambre du Roi. Here is a feast of previously unrecorded music for King Francis I, the symbol of a happy Renaissance.

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Doulce Mémoire & Denis Raisin-Dadre – Madrigali diminuiti (Diminutions inspirees de Sylvestro Ganassi) (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Doulce Mémoire & Denis Raisin-Dadre – Madrigali diminuiti (Diminutions inspirees de Sylvestro Ganassi) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:07:23 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

In 1535 Sylvestro Ganassi published in Venice the first treatise developing the technique of the art of ornamentation at an unprecedented level of rhythmic complexity and virtuosity. Playing the recorder, the instrument to which Ganassi devoted his work, Denis Raisin Dadre applies the rules of the treatise to the repertoire that Ganassi practiced, frottole and, above all, the madrigals of Philippe Verdelot. With the ornaments, the music proves to be a living art that practices a constant rhythmic shift, the exuberant virtuosity of improvisations and a ‘swing’ that would be typical of jazz in the 20th century.

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Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre – Leonardo da Vinci, la musique secrète (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/88,2kHz]

Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre – Leonardo da Vinci, la musique secrète (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:18:03 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

2019 will see the 500th commemoration of the death of one of the greatest geniuses humanity has produced: Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, inventor, painter – and musician.

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Doulce Mémoire & Denis Raisin Dadre – Desprez: Tant vous aime (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Doulce Mémoire & Denis Raisin Dadre – Desprez: Tant vous aime (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:04:14 minutes | 1,98 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ricercar

Josquin Desprez, princeps musicorum, the prince of musicians, as his contemporaries called him, is best known today for his sacred works, the masses and motets, which have been widely performed and recorded. Surprisingly, his chansons have received little attention from performers, except for the pieces for five and six voices, printed after his death by the Antwerp publisher Tilman Susato in his seventh book of 1545. Doulce Mémoire has chosen to focus on the chansons for three and four voices, which are probably the earliest in the Hainault master’s output; with their diversity of language and themes (sometimes folk-derived), these songs constitute a varied programme that is at once serious and bawdy, a testament to the unequalled art of Josquin Desprez.

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