Jean-Baptiste de Bousset - Airs Sérieux - Elizabeth Dobbin & le Jardin Secret (2016) {Fuga Libera Official Digital Downloads}

In 1724, Sébastien de Brossard hailed Jean-Baptiste Drouard de Bousset as ‘indisputably the best of our composer-authors’. Although, at the beginning of the 18th century, the Master of Music at the Académies des Sciences et des Inscriptions imposed himself as the unquestionable leader of the genre, his 875 airs sérieux are little known nowadays and deserve to be brought back into the light. Such is the desire of Elizabeth Dobbin and the ensemble Le Jardin Secret, who recreate with artistry and intelligence the ‘noble, pleasant and natural’ songs of the composer, described by Titon du Tillet in his Parnasse françois (1732). Reflecting the traditions of the 17th and 18th centuries, the musicians have included improvised passages in their performance of these airs and, in particular, chosen to accompany the voice with two theorbos and viola da gamba, instruments that Bousset owned when he died.

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Personnel:
Le Jardin Secret
Elizabeth Dobbin - soprano

Mike Fentross - baroque guitar
(Stephen Barber and Sandi Harris, London, 1984)
and theorbo (Sebastián Núñez. Utrecht, 1998)

Jadran Duncumb - theorbo
(Brendan Hirst, York, 1989)

Romina Lischka - treble viol
(François Bodart, Peu d’eau, 1991)
and bass viol (Walter Schmidt, Vienna, 2002)

With
Nicholas Milne (Tracks 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 19 and 20) -
treble viol (Tilman Muthesius, Potsdam, 2014)
and bass viol (Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, 1707)

Takeshi Sudo (Tracks 3, 9, 10, 19 and 20) – bass viol
(Anonymous, North Germany, 18th century – restored Gesina Liedmeier)



tracklist:
01. O toy, qui présides aux chants 4:00
02. En Amour une chansonnette 2:16
03. Heureux qui de ses jours – Instrumental 2:13
04. Importune raison 2:02
05. Nuit charmante 2:53
06. Tu crains d’être avec moi seulette – Instrumental 2:58
07. Hélas faible raison, qu’estes vous devenue 3:12
08. Iris, vous estes jeune et belle – Instrumental 1:30
09. Dans la saison nouvelle 2:00
10. Symphonie choisie – Instrumental 1:43
11. C’est dans ces lieux qu’on voit l’Amour se plaire 1:26
12. J’aime à revoir ces bois et ces Ruisseaux 4:14
13. Par hazard sur la fougère 3:58
14. J’aime Sylvie – Instrumental 1:29
15. Chers témoins d’un amour trop fidelle et trop tendre 2:38
16. Charmante nuit 5:02
17. De toutes les saisons, l’Hiver s’est rendu maître 3:30
18. Aimer Iris – Instrumental 3:47
19. Sombre Forest 3:19
20. J’ay quitté vos beaux yeux sans quitté mon amour 2:27