Musique Pour Mazarin! Qui a le coeur a tout
le Jardin Secret

Continuing its work with young artists, CORO has the pleasure of announcing Musique Pour Mazarin! the debut recording by le Jardin Secret, winners of both the first prize and audience prize at the Early Music Network Young Artists Competition 2007.

This talented young ensemble consisting of soprano, harpsichord, theorbo, viola da gamba and baroque cello, present a delightfully varied programme featuring a diverse mixture of French and Italian music that would have been heard at the court of the flamboyant Cardinal Jules Mazarin.

The juxtaposition of French and Italian works on this disc shows clearly the rich selection of music heard at Mazarin’s court in the late 1600s. They demonstrating the stark contrast between the French and Italian styles of the period with the added ingredient of political and cultural rivalry and intrigue - the Italian born Cardinal importing Italian culture into a resistant French context - contributes a little "piquancy" to the mix! 

On this disc, which includes chansons by Charpentier, extracts of operas by Lully and Cavalli and the delightful, if at times brutal, ‘Mazarinades’, le Jardin Secret bring alive the emotive energy of the music, opening the door to the aesthetic world of this Baroque period in all its beguiling beauty.

le Jardin Secret
COR16060

TRACK LISTINGS

1. Spera mi disse Amore: Orazio Michi (1594-1641)
2. Ah! Qu’ils sont courts: Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
3. Assez de Pleurs: Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) (arranged de Visée)
4. Aux plaisirs: Pierre Guédron (1564-1619)
5. Ritournelle des Fées: Jean-Baptiste Lully (arranged d’Anglebert)
6. Deh, memoria: Giacomo Carissimi (1605–1674)
7. Mio core languisce: Luigi Rossi (1597-1653) (arranged David Blunden)
8. Chaconne la Bergeronnette: Louis Couperin (c.1626 - 1661)
9. Deh, piangete - from Psyché: Jean-Baptiste Lully
10. La chasse donnée à Mazarin par les paysans des bourgs et des villages sur le tocsin (Mazarinade): Anon (arranged David Blunden)
11. Allemande: Demachy (d. c.1692)
12. Tristes déserts: Marc-Antoine Charpentier
13. Toccata Settima: Michelangelo Rossi (c.1601-1656)
14. Non pianga e non sospiri - from Orfeo: Luigi Rossi
15. Tranquilles coeurs - from Le Triomphe de L’Amour: Jean-Baptiste Lully
16. Sans frayeur: Marc-Antoine Charpentier (arranged David Blunden)
17. Si ch’io voglio sperare: Marc Antonio Pasqualini (1614-1691)
18. Avertissement des enfarinez à Mazarin sur ce qu’il doit craindre (Mazarinade): Anon (arranged David Blunden)
19. Le perfide Renaud me fuit - from Armide: Jean-Baptiste Lully
20. Chaconne des Harlequins: Jean-Baptiste Lully (arranged de Visée)
21. Ad un cuore - from L’Europe Galante: André Campra (1660-1774)