L’écrit du Cri, Ensemble Clément Janequin, Wigmore Hall, 24 July 2010

I’m pretty sure we’d seen Ensemble Clément Janequin before and liked them so much we fancied another go for this concert of secular Renaissance music and modern music in that “Renaissance Cri” style.  They were promoting their album L’écrit du Cri at that time; the concert was basically a performance of the album.

Here is a link for the album L’écrit du Cri: it includes several cris by modern composers as well as Renaissance pieces.

Here is a vid recording of the Ensemble singing Janequin’s hit cri, Les Cris de Paris:

This is not easy listening Renaissance (nor easy listening modern) music. I recall Janie being a little disappointed, awarding a low relaxation score despite the high fascination score and very high “talent” score for this ensemble, always excellent.

But I’m sticking to booking mostly sacred music from this Renaissance period (early 16th century) for Janie from now on. Ensemble Clément Janequin do plenty of that too.