Ensemble Celadon: Nuits occitanes
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.RIC144

By Ensemble Celadon and Paulin Bundgen. By Various. Classical. CD. Naxos #RIC144. Published by Naxos (NX.RIC144).

Conducted by Paulin Bundgen.

Under the title Occitan Nights, a few troubadour songs have been collected here. Those poet-musicians celebrated the beauty of women, praised the courage of men and evoked the parting of lovers at daybreak. The Celadon Ensemble offers us a poetic, inspired vision of these lovely melodies. Taking its name from the hero of Honore d'Urfe's Astree, the Celadon ensemble explores the early music repertoire with charm and fantasy, striving to reinvent the form of its concerts at each appearance. Led by countertenor Paulin Bundgen, Celadon seeks to avoid the beaten tracks and enjoys surveying the repertoire linked with the countertenor timbre, between mediaeval, renaissance and baroque music. The ensemble is a regular guest of festivals and concert seasons, recognized for the quality of its interpretations and profoundly human relations with the audience.