The Ensemble Clément Janequin is a French early music ensemble founded in 1978 and specializing in the chansons of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

and early

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

. The founder, and leader, is the countertenor Dominique Visse. The group has recorded almost exclusively for the

Harmonia Mundi Harmonia Mundi is a record label that specializes in classical music, jazz, and world music (on the World Village label). It was founded in France in 1958 and is now a subsidiary of PIAS Entertainment Group, which is itself owned by Universal M ...

label of the late

Bernard Coutaz Bernard Coutaz (30 December 1922 – 26 February 2010) was a French musical publisher, founder of the Harmonia Mundi label. Coutaz was born into a working-class family in Saint-Auban-sur-l'Ouvèze and studied at the Salesians of Don Bosco, but wa ...

since its inception. An early line up of the Ensemble in 1985, for the ''Meslanges'' recording, included

Josep Cabré Josep Cabré Cercós (born 1956 in Barcelona) is a Catalan bass-baritone singer and choral conductor. He is a founder member of the vocal quartet La Colombina (:es:La Colombina (grupo), es) with María Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Claudio Cavina (alt ...

(Baritone), Philippe Cantor (Baritone),

Michel Laplénie Michel Laplénie (born 1943) is a French tenor, and conductor of the baroque choral (founded 1986) and other ensembles. He was one of the founding members of both Ensemble Clément Janequin and Les Arts Florissants.International Record Review ...

(Tenor), Gérard Lesne (Haute Contre),

Agnès Mellon Agnès Mellon (born 17 January 1958) is a French soprano who specializes in baroque music. Biography Agnès Mellon started her career in 1981 with the baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants (ensemble), Les Arts Florissants, directed by William ...

(Soprano), Antoine Sicot (Bass) and direction Dominique Visse. Cabré, Laplénie, and Lesne all subsequently founded their own ensembles, as well as Bruno Boterf (tenor) who was a member of the Ensemble from 1987 to 2007 before founding his own vocal ensemble, Ludus Modalis. The ensemble has recorded very little modern music but in 2009 recorded a selection of 19th-century and modern compositions extending the tradition of the renaissance genre of ''Les Cris de Paris'' entitled ''L'écrit du Cri''. This collection featured

Jean-Georges Kastner Jean-Georges Kastner, born 9 March 1810 in Strasbourg, died 19 December 1867 in Paris, was a composer and musicologist. Biography Kastner's parents were Johann Georg Kastner, from Dettwiller, and Marie Salome Pfeiffer, from Woerth. Despite hi ...

(1810–1867), Alfred Roland (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1840),Tout pour la patrie, ou le Cri bagnérais, grande cantate mélologue en l'honneur des illustrations bagnéraises. Le ménestrel des Pyrénées et du Midi. Premier recueil religieux et pastoral, national et classique des chants montagnards favoris, paroles et musique de M. Alfred Roland Alfred Lebeau (1835–1906), Louis-Édouard Deransart (d.1905), Vincent Scotto (1876–1952) and several contemporary French and Belgian composers; Claude Ledoux, Bruno Ducol (1949–2024), Vincent Bouchot (b. 1966), Régis Campo (b. 1968).

Selected discography

*198? - Sermisy:

Leçons de ténèbres Leçons de ténèbres ( 'lessons of darkness'; sometimes spelled Leçons des ténèbres) is a genre of French Baroque music which developed from the polyphonic lamentations settings for the tenebrae service of Renaissance composers such as Sermi ...

. Harmonia Mundi reedition 2004 HMX 2901131. *1982 - Paschal de l'Estocart ''Octonaires de la vanité du monde''.

1901110. *1982 - ''Les Cris de Paris''. Chansons de Janequin et Sermisy. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1072. *1983 - Janequin: ''Le chant des Oyseaulx''. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1099. *1984 - Anthoine de Bertrand ''Amours de Ronsard''. Harmonia Mundi 1901147. *1985 - ''Fricassée Parisienne''. Chansons de la Renaissance française. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1174. *1985 -

Claude Le Jeune Claude Le Jeune (; 1528 to 1530 – buried 26 September 1600) was a Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He was the primary representative of the musical movement known as '' musique mesurée'', and a significant composer of the "P ...

''Meslanges''. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble Les Eléments. Harmonia Mundi 1901182. *1986 -

Josquin Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

: ''

Missa Pange lingua The ''Missa Pange lingua'' is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez, probably dating from around 1515, near the end of his life. Most likely his last mass, it is an extended fantasia on the '' ...

''. Ensemble Clément Janequin and

Ensemble Organum Ensemble Organum is a group performing early music, co-founded in 1982 by Marcel Pérès and based in France. Its members have changed, but have included at one time or another, Josep Cabré, Josep Benet, Gérard Lesne, Antoine Sicot, Malcolm B ...

. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1239. *1986 - ''Psaumes du XVIème''. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble Les Eléments. Cascavelle 1001. *1987 -

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque music, Baroque composer and organ (music), organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of ...

''Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreutz''. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse. Harmonia Mundi 1951255. *1988 - Janequin: ''La Chasse et autres chansons''. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1271. *1988 -

Josquin Desprez Josquin Lebloitte dit des Prez ( – 27 August 1521) was a composer of High Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered one of the greatest composers of the Renaissance, he was a central figure of the ...

: ''Adieu mes amours'' - Chansons. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Ensemble Les Eléments. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1279. *1989 -

Pierre de la Rue Pierre de la Rue ( – 20 November 1518) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of the Renaissance. His name also appears as Piersson or variants of Pierchon and his toponymic, when present, as various forms of de Platea, de Robore, or de Vic ...

: Missa "

L'homme armé "L'homme armé" () is a secular song from the Late Middle Ages, of the Burgundian School. According to Allan W. Atlas, "the tune circulated in both the Mixolydian mode and Dorian mode (transposed to G)." It was the most popular tune used for mus ...

". Requiem. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1296. *1991 - ''Les Plaisirs du Palais''. Chansons à boire de la Renaissance. Harmonia Mundi 901729. *1991 -

Lassus Orlando di Lasso ( various other names; probably – 14 June 1594) was a composer of the late Renaissance. The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school, Lassus stands with William Byrd, Giovanni Pierlu ...

: Chansons and moresche. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1391. *1992 - Banchieri: ''Barca di Venetia per Padova''. Harmonia Mundi 901281. *1993 - Vecchi: ''L'Amfiparnaso''. Harmonia Mundi HMA 195 1461. *1993 - ''Chansons sur des poèmes de Ronsard''. Songs on poems by

Ronsard Pierre de Ronsard (; 11 September 1524 – 27 December 1585) was a French poet known in his generation as a " prince of poets". His works include '' Les Amours de Cassandre'' (1552)'','' '' Les Hymnes'' (1555-1556)'', Les Discours'' (1562-1563 ...

by François Regnard, Guillaume Boni, Jean de Castro and royal lutenist Albert de Rippe Harmonia Mundi 1951491. *1994 - ''Une Fête chez Rabelais''. Chansons et pièces instrumentales. Harmonia Mundi HMX 298 1453. *1995 - Janequin: Missa "La Bataille". Missa "L'aveuglé Dieu". Harmonia Mundi HMA 190 1536. *1996 - Le Jeune: Missa "Ad Placitum".

Magnificat The Magnificat (Latin for "y soulmagnifies he Lord) is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary or Canticle of Mary, and in the Byzantine Rite as the Ode of the Theotokos (). Its Western name derives from the incipit of its Latin text. This ...

. Harmonia Mundi 901607. *1997 - ''Canciones y Ensaladas''. Chansons et pièces instrumentales du Siècle d'Or. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1627. *1998 - ''Psaumes et Chansons de la Réforme''. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1672. *2003 - Brumel: Missa ''Et ecce terrae motus''. Ensemble Clément Janequin and Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse. Harmonia Mundi 901738. *2005 -

''Autant en emporte le vent'' Chansons. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1863. *2010 - ''Rabelais - Fay ce que vouldras'' with readings in French from '' Pantagruel''. Les Sacqueboutiers de Toulouse. Kelys / Flora.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ensemble Clement Janequin Early music groups French choirs Musical groups established in 1978

Selected discography

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