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NEW : La Roulotte d’Arlequin

A Renaissance musical loosely based on the madrigal comedy La Pazzia Senile by Adriano Banchieri (1568-1634) with Italian songs from the 1960s!

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NEW : Chanter en Roulotte

Renaissance concert on trestles

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NEW : Joachim Du Bellay, lyric poet

Commemoration 1522-2022 – New creation for the five-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joachim du Bellay

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NEW : Josquin Desprez – Prince of Musicians

Considered a central figure of the Franco-Flemish school, the composer Josquin Desprez is believed to have been born in the 1450s in Hainaut (modern-day Belgium); he died in…

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NEW : Votre amour est vagabonde – Songs in French by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

2021 will see the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Sweelinck’s death in Amsterdam. Renowned as one of the foremost representatives of the Dutch keyboard school,…

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Leonardo da Vinci, the hidden music

Many of Leonardo da Vinci’s contemporaries mention his love for music. As well as for his many other talents, he was famed for his accomplishments as a musician, who would…

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Leonardo da Vinci, the hidden music

A show combining Renaissance music, painting and visual and digital creationCreation 2019 at the Auditorium of Musée du Louvre in Paris.

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Cine-concert “Leonardo da Vinci”

This film, made in 1919, for the four-hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, by two pioneers of Italian cinema, Julia Cassini Rizzotto and Mario Corsi, traces the…

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Royal festivities at the French court

With music, singing, dancing and sumptuous costumes, Doulce Mémoire invite you to come and enjoy their evocation of such a celebration at the court of François I.

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Musics at the French court

This concert recreates the daily atmosphere of the pleasant and charming life at the court of the King of France during the 16th century.

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Le printemps of Claude Le Jeune

Often mentioned, often analysed (notably by Olivier Messiaen) but rarely heard, Claude Le Jeune’s Le Printemps was brazenly modern for its time.

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Cabezón the European

A colourful picture of music in Europe at the time of the Spanish Siglo d’Oro. Musics of Antonio de Cabezón (1510 – 1566)

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Carpe Diem : Ronsard, lyric poet

A tribute to this great poet who judged the music indispensable to the transmission of the poetic text, and declared himself the first French lyric poet.

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Nights of Jaipur

Here two worlds are brought together: that of the ragas, as played in the palaces of North India, and that of ars subtilior, as heard in the fifteenth century at the Visconti court…

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The cry of the tournebout

Concert musicologically irresponsible

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Roses of Ispahan

The concert proposes a dialogue between the Nuovo Stile of Caccini in the early seventeenth century and the classical Persian vocal music.

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Italian fricassées

Our programme presents works that are rare, burlesque and sharp-witted performed here by singers-actors who are truly in their element with this genre.

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Fountain of Fortune

The last fires of the chivalrous ideal through this fifteenth century court music whose subtlety and melancholy enchant us.

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Renaissance splendours

A colorful ceremony with 19 musicians from Doulce Mémoire and more than 50 amateur chorists – New creation 2017

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Field of the Cloth of Gold – 1520 : a mass for Peace

The meeting for the Field of the Cloth of Gold culminated with the celebration of High Mass. Which was the more impressive: the complex, virtuosic English style, or the French…

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Requiem for the Kings of France

Eustache du Caurroy’s Missa pro Defunctis is undoubtedly the most famous requiem mass of the Ancien Régime.

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Tenebrae for the Saturday of Holy Week

The Lamentations of Cristóbal de Morales (1500-53) were sung in the Sistine Chapel.

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Music for the funeral of Anne of Brittany

Doulce Mémoire evokes the splendid ceremonies that were to inspire French royal funerals for several centuries to come.

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Christmas in Rome : Lauds and oratorios

Doulce Mémoire invite you to attend a prayer vigil in Rome’s popular Trastevere district in the early seventeenth century. This music, immediate in its charm, comes within…

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Lauds – The East and the West Confraternities

Religious fraternities composed of laymen existed in both the Muslim and the Catholic traditions.

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