「期待しないで、私の眼は...」～厳粛なアリアと酒の歌 第3集

クリスティの演奏で味わう洗練されたフランス音楽

クリスティとレザール・フロリサンが奏でるフランス宮廷御用達の美しき声楽小品集。
勇壮であったり土俗的であったり精神的であったりと様々な表情が散りばめられていて、100年以上にわたりフランス音楽界を彩った音楽ジャンルの洗練された美が味わえます。
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Conductor William Christie was in his late seventies when this recording appeared in the spring of 2021. He and his ensemble Les Arts Florissants were among the first musicians to engage with the lesser-known corners of the French Baroque, and Christie has trained many members of the next generation of historical performers in France. However, he has never slowed down with his own music-making, and here, he shows once again an ability to take quite obscure repertory and present it accessibly for general audiences. Until Christie came along, the air de cour, or court air, was hardly known at all or was known only through an annoying ditty by Claude Le Jeune called Revecy venir du printans that those taking university music history classes invariably have encountered. Le Jeune is present here but acquits himself much better in more complex pieces, and the program gives a sense of the variety of this tradition. The album is subtitled Airs serieux et a boire (Serious Songs and Songs for Drinking), but even the quicker tunes that might have accompanied a party have a sad edge, and aficionados of the melancholy of the English madrigals and lute songs will find a fully developed French counterpart for it here. The forward edge of the Italian Baroque had little influence on this music, but there are several amusing little scenes and dialogues of an entirely French sort. Christies singers and instrumentalists are all in fine form, and Harmonia Mundi does well to situate the recording in a gallery at the Bank of France, that modern seat of power. A wonderful album, quite unusual, but enjoyable for anyone.