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The concept of this release, a brainchild of French researcher, conductor, and archlute player Jean-Luc Impe, is a bit outrageous but also undoubtedly inventive, providing an instant corrective for anyone who thought odd mixtures of sacred and secular died with the Renaissance. The album's title, Parodies spirituelles et spiritualité en parodies (Spiritual Parodies and Spirituality in Parodies), suggests repertoires that are mirror images of each other. That's not quite the case, but they are oddly related. The "parodies spirituelles" are reworkings of early 17th century songs, refitted with sacred lyrics, rhythmically altered to a greater or lesser degree, and slowed down in keeping with the religious atmosphere. These have some of the naïve quality of Charpentier's sacred melodies of a half-century later, minus the court splendor. The "parodies" in which Impe finds spirituality might better be described as satires, and they're not spiritual in the conventional sense; in fact, they're pretty raunchy. Though Impe claims that these vaudevilles, as they were called "more irreverent in nature then genuinely polemical or anticlerical," some of them are pretty shocking now and must have been even more so at the time. Typical is the concluding La Soeur Luce, which ostensibly depicted a nun chasing a bug in her bedroom, but in fact seems, as Impe contends, to refer to masturbation. Some of these pieces are anonymous, which may well have been due to their controversial nature. The texts are given only in French, which is a shame for non-Francophones inasmuch as the imagery is allusive, humorous, and presumably filled with contemporary references. The average listener with rusty French will get only partway through. Still, this music, like much of the French repertoire of the period, has been absolutely unknown, and its unearthing in any form is something to be grateful for.
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Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - François Richard, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - François Richard, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - François Richard, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Michel Corrette, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - François Richard, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - François Richard, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - Anonymous, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Céline Scheen, Performer - Catherine Daron, Performer - Gail-An Schroeder, Performer - Eriko Semba, Performer - Ricardo Rodríguez Miranda, Performer - Dimitri Dumon, Performer - Jean-Luc Impe, Performer - André-Joseph Exaudet, Composer
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
Album review
The concept of this release, a brainchild of French researcher, conductor, and archlute player Jean-Luc Impe, is a bit outrageous but also undoubtedly inventive, providing an instant corrective for anyone who thought odd mixtures of sacred and secular died with the Renaissance. The album's title, Parodies spirituelles et spiritualité en parodies (Spiritual Parodies and Spirituality in Parodies), suggests repertoires that are mirror images of each other. That's not quite the case, but they are oddly related. The "parodies spirituelles" are reworkings of early 17th century songs, refitted with sacred lyrics, rhythmically altered to a greater or lesser degree, and slowed down in keeping with the religious atmosphere. These have some of the naïve quality of Charpentier's sacred melodies of a half-century later, minus the court splendor. The "parodies" in which Impe finds spirituality might better be described as satires, and they're not spiritual in the conventional sense; in fact, they're pretty raunchy. Though Impe claims that these vaudevilles, as they were called "more irreverent in nature then genuinely polemical or anticlerical," some of them are pretty shocking now and must have been even more so at the time. Typical is the concluding La Soeur Luce, which ostensibly depicted a nun chasing a bug in her bedroom, but in fact seems, as Impe contends, to refer to masturbation. Some of these pieces are anonymous, which may well have been due to their controversial nature. The texts are given only in French, which is a shame for non-Francophones inasmuch as the imagery is allusive, humorous, and presumably filled with contemporary references. The average listener with rusty French will get only partway through. Still, this music, like much of the French repertoire of the period, has been absolutely unknown, and its unearthing in any form is something to be grateful for.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 00:58:26
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Céline Scheen / Les Menus-Plaisirs du Roy / Jean-Luc Impe
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Musica Ficta
- Genre: Classical
2009 Pavane Records 2009 Centre d'étude asbl
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