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NOËLS
Noëls français du XVIIe siècle aux instruments
French noëls of the 18th Century on instruments



Les Boréades de Montréal
with guests
Rafik Samman and Éric Mercier


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Although composed by organists, these noëls also allow certain liberties to the performer, namely that of playing them on a variety of instruments.   Thus Louis-Claude Daquin, a famous composer of noëls for the organ, gives the following precision on the title page of his Nouveau livre de Noëls pour l'orgue et le clavecin: "most of them can be played on the violins, flutes, oboes, etc". One finds a similar indication in the forward to the original edition of Corrette's Nouveau livre de Noëls (1753): "The violins, flutes, viols and violoncello can play these noëls in concert with the harpsichord".

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© Dominique Olivier
Translation: Jaques-André Houle



  1. «Nous sommes en voie»     1:30
Jean-François Dandrieu (1682-1738) Livre de noëls, 1759

  2. «Tous les bourgeois de Chastres»     2:38
Michel Corrette (1707-1795) Nouveau livre de noëls, 1753

  3. Noël no.2 «Or, nous dites, Marie»     6:03
Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) Nouveau livre de noëls, 1757

  4. «Noël provençal»     1:47
Michel Corrette

  5. Noël no.3 «Une bergère jolie»     10:35
Louis-Claude Daquin
En musette, en dialogue et en rondeau, très tendrement

  6. «Où s'en vont ces gays bergers»     6:44
Michel Corrette
 		  7. «Joseph est bien marié»     2:27
Michel Corrette

  8. «Il est us petit l'ange» ou «Noël suisse»     6:23
Claude Balbastre (1727-1799)
Recueil de noëls formant quatre suites avec des variations, 1770

  9. Noël no.1 «À la venue de Noël»     4:17
Louis-Claude Daquin

10. «Une jeune pucelle»     6:35
Michel Corrette

11. «Bon Joseph écoute moy»     4:56
Michel Corrette

12. «Noël poitevin»     2:10
Jean-François Dandrieu


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