Mille Vignes

Jérôme Lejeune continues his History of Music series with this boxed set devoted to the Renaissance. The next volume in the series after Flemish Polyphony (RIC 102), this set explores the music of the 16th century from Josquin Desprez to Roland de Lassus. After all of the various turnings that music took during the Middle Ages, the music of the Renaissance seems to be a first step towards a common European musical style. Josquin Desprez’s example was followed by every composer in every part of Europe and in every musical genre, including the Mass setting, the motet and all of the various new types of solo song. Instrumental music was also to develop considerably from the beginning of the 16th century onwards.

Etonnant personnage que ce René d’Anjou, et étonnant destin. Prince des fleurs de lis puisqu’il descend de Jean le Bon, il paraît devoir jouer un rôle de premier plan sur l’échiquier européen. Des héritages le font duc d’Anjou et comte de Provence, duc de Bar, mais aussi roi de Jérusalem et de Sicile, ce qui veut dire roi de Naples. Son mariage le fait duc de Lorraine. …