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…