Praise of folly...
« Nothing is more foolish than to talk of frivolous things seriously but nothing is wittier than to make frivolities serve serious ends ». Erasmus.
Les Voix Animées take you on a wild trip across Europe in the time of Erasmus.
In a whirlwind of words and notes, their mingled voices depict with vividness and joy the events of that time which - through the liberation of thought - accompanied the genesis of the modern mind.
Renaissance songs and madrigals by Janequin, Josquin, Lassus, Flecha, Weelkes…