 In this Rondeau, (a poetic form codified in the Middle Ages), harmonized for mixed-voice choir (SATTBB) by Thomas Moreau, François Villon (ca 1431- died after 1463), a master of the Arts, a rogue and a poet in his spare time, begs Death to take him to his Kingdom, which has already taken his mistress from him, and without which life has no meaning.This piece, slow and funeral, sung by four male voices in long, mortuary values before the women's choir joins in the lament, is dedicated to Marc Jauréguiberry, a Bayonnais composer and professor of writing and analysis at the Bordeaux Conservatory Jacques Thibaud, who died in 2006 and in whose class Thomas had the good fortune to study. |
