Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre - Antoine de Févin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne (2011) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Fiere attropos mauldicte
02. Skolader yaouank
03. Coeur Désolez: Plorans ploravit
04. Qui dabit oculis nostris
05. Anaig ar Glaz
06. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): I. Introit "Requiem aeternam"
07. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): II. Kyrie
08. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): III. Graduel "Si ambulem in medio umbrae mortis"
09. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): IV. Verset "Virga tua"
10. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): V. Tractus "Sitivit anima mea"
11. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): VI. Fuerunt mihi lacrimae
12. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): VII. Misere mei Domine
13. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): VIII. Offertoire "Domine Jesu Christe"
14. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): IX. Verset "Hostias et preces tibi, Domine"
15. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): X. Quam olim Abrahae
16. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XI. Sanctus
17. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XII. Benedictus
18. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XIII. Coeur Désolez "Dies illa, dies irae"
19. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XIV. Agnus Dei
20. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XV. Communion "Lux aeterna luceat eis, Domine"
21. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XVI. In paradisum
22. Messe de Requiem (Antoine de Fevin): XVII. Stabat Mater


On the death of Anne of Brittany, her husband King Louis XII honoured her with exceptional funeral ceremonies lasting forty days, which sealed forever her image as Queen of France and Duchess of Brittany.

As he prepared this programme centring on the Missa pro defunctis of Antoine de Févin, and read the exceptionally vivid narrative by the herald of Anne of Brittany (whom her subjects nicknamed simply ‘Bretaigne’!), Denis Raisin Dadre realised that beyond all this official mourning staged by the royal authority, there was also a silent sorrow, that of the Bretons who had lost their duchess and were also in the process of losing their duchy’s independence.

He wanted to make the voices of the people heard behind the voices of the king’s singers, and so he asked Yann-Fañch Kemener to contribute some traditional Breton gwerzioù.

These solo songs act as a counterpoint to the complex polyphony which expresses all the pomp of royalty.

His voice allows us to hear the Breton people, so attached to their Duchess Anne who had bequeathed them her heart and who are still extraordinarily attached to her today.

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