Le Poème Harmonique, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Vincent Dumestre - Mon amant de Saint-Jean (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Fascinated by the interplay of echoes from one past to another, Vincent Dumestre and Stéphanie d’Oustrac found an affinity in the project Mon Amant de Saint-Jean , their very first collaboration, and aimed to make it a unique musical adventure: a recital in which the atmosphere of the chansons of the Années Folles infuses early music with its sweet madness. In 1904, the great cabaret singer Yvette Guilbert was invited to the home of the Casadesus family, the founders of the Société des Instruments Anciens (Early instrument society): the Baroque fraternised with the café-concert. Around the same time, in the revue Paris qui chante, an aria by Scarlatti rubbed shoulders with the coarse language of Aristide Bruant and Paulin, while Gaston Dumestre, a singer at the cabaret Le Chat Noir (and one of Vincent’s ancestors!), sang chansons réalistes while accompanying himself on the theorbo presented to him by Oscar II of Sweden: ‘It is in language that we must seek the common driving force. These cabaret singers relished a very special flavour, a vigour, a raciness in the words of the Baroque era’, concludes Vincent Dumestre.

Tracklist:
01. Grouya, Martine: J'ai perdu ma jeunesse
02. Marais: Les voix humaines
03. Anonymous: Dans mon jardin à l'ombre
04. Anonymous: La fille au roi Louis
05. Vierdanck: Canzona in C major
06. Monteverdi: Lamento d'Arianna, SV 22: 1. Lasciatemi morire
07. Cavalli: L'Egisto, Act II: 1. Lasso io vivo
08. Marinier: D'elle à lui
09. Delmet: Les petits pavés
10. Cachan: Où sont tous mes amants ?
11. Legrand: Les Nuits d'une demoiselle
12. Thérésa, Fossey: Les Canards tyroliens
13. Carcel: Le tango stupéfiant
14. Carrara: Mon amant de Saint-Jean


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