Alla Francesca
So many of the best, and most influential, ensembles devoted to performing early music maintain dual careers as performers, but also as educators and scholars. The group known as Alla Francesca (from France, or in the French style) is no exception. The group consists of three central members: Pierre Hamon, who directs and plays historical wind instruments; Brigitte Lesne, singer and harpist; and singer and fiddle player Emmanuel Bonnardot. All of them met earlier in their careers and worked closely with Dominique Vellard in the Ensemble Gilles Binchois; the parent group was and remains headquartered at the Center for Medieval Music at the University of Paris, and produces performances in close communication with musicologists. Likewise, Alla Francesca retains close ties to the Center for Medieval Music; all three of the core members teach there, and they craft musical programs with careful consideration for the research that they and other European professional musicologists bring to each repertory. The group tends to perform music directly from the historical notation of early manuscript sources and brings each repertory to life with spirit and innovation. Performances have encompassed repertories from the eleventh century Troubadour lyrics (on Richard Coeur-de-lion) to the musical flowering of the European fifteenth century; the group's strongest work tends to be performing musics of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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Discography
7 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ciconia: Motets, Virelais, Ballate, Madrigals
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jan 1994
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Landini and Italian Ars Nova
Classical - Released by naïve classique on 1 Jan 1992
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mediterranea
Alla Francesca, Brigitte Lesne, Pierre Hamon, Carlo Rizzo
Classical - Released by Zig-Zag Territoires on 1 Apr 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Variations amoureuses
Alla Francesca, Brigitte Lesne
Classical - Released by Paraty on 29 May 2020
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo -
Tre donne belle
Alla Francesca, Brigitte Lesne, Vivabiancaluna Biffi, Christel Boiron
Classical - Released by Paraty on 3 Mar 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
De Champagne: Le chansonnier du roi (Amour courtois et chevalerie au XIIIe siècle)
Alla Francesca, Brigitte Lesne
Classical - Released by AEON on 25 Sep 2012
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Variations amoureuses
Alla Francesca, Brigitte Lesne
Classical - Released by Paraty on 29 May 2020
24-Bit 88.2 kHz - Stereo