Marie-Noëlle Maerten – Joubert: Ariettes oubliées (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Marie-Noëlle Maerten – Joubert: Ariettes oubliées (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:22 minutes | 563 MB | Genre: Classical
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You have understood nothing of my simplicity’, wrote Paul Verlaine in Child Wife. And that is precisely what Julien Joubert’s music seems to whisper to us with each note.The composer and pianist works regularly with the Maîtrise de Radio France, which has premiered many of his works. Here he has set two cycles by the great nineteenth-century poet to music for this recording (Ariettes oubliées and Aquarelles, for mixed choir). An ambitious programme, yet accessible to everyone, in all simplicity.

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Ensemble Romances Sans Paroles, Chœurs de la Musique de Léonie, Marie-Noëlle Maerten & Corinne Barrère – Julien Joubert: Ceuillez votre jeunesse… Ronsard (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Ensemble Romances Sans Paroles, Chœurs de la Musique de Léonie, Marie-Noëlle Maerten & Corinne Barrère – Julien Joubert: Ceuillez votre jeunesse… Ronsard (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 20:05 minutes | 200 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alpha Classics

How to read Ronsard today? Simply aloud or in singing it, like back then. Because, for Ronsard, nothing is more obvious than to unite music and poetry: “I also want you to encourage you to pronounce your verses loudly in your room, when you do them, or sooner sing them, whatever voice can have. » Ronsard, Abbrégé de l’Art poétique françois, 1565 As soon as the collection of Loves was published, it was fashionable for a composer to set these poems to music. To quote the most famous: Goudimel, Certon, and of course Janequin. But long after death of the poet, many composers have continued to do so: Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Poulenc… It is because Ronsard’s texts have no no age; Pick the roses of life today is a principle immortal. Julien Joubert reads poetry every day, aloud and even the most often while singing. It was therefore only natural that he lean on the work by Ronsard.

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