Tracklist
| 1 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – J'ayme mon Dieu Genevan Psalter Psaume 116 | 5:03 | |
| 2 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Mon Éme oó sont les grands discours Estocart | 1:44 | |
| 3 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Le beau du monde Estocart | 1:13 | |
| 4 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Misericorde au pauvre vicieux Genevan Psalter Psaume 51 | 2:38 | |
| 5 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Iamais n'avoir et touiours desirer Estocart | 3:07 | |
| 6 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Misericorde au pauvre vicieux Genevan Psalter Psaume 51 | 4:07 | |
| 7 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Arreste, atten o mondain oó cours tu Estocart | 2:12 | |
| 8 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Mon Dieu pourquoy m'as tu laissÇ Genevan Psalter Psaume 22 | 3:19 | |
| 9 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Morte est la mort Estocart | 3:19 | |
| 10 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Du fond de ma pensÇe Genevan Psalter Psaume 130 | 3:00 | |
| 11 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Orfävre taille moy une boule bien ronde Estocart | 2:49 | |
| 12 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Le péché et la mort Estocart | 2:08 | |
| 13 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Mon Dieu pourquoy m'as tu laissÇ Genevan Psalter Psaume 22 | 2:05 | |
| 14 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Quel monstre voy je lÖ Estocart | 2:32 | |
| 15 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – J'aperáus un enfant Estocart | 2:24 | |
| 16 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Quand je lis et quand je contemple Estocart | 2:20 | |
| 17 | chant 1450 Renaissance Ensemble + Sylvain Chauveau – Misericorde au pauvre vicieux Genevan Psalter Psaume 51 | 5:04 |
These recordings show a bold mix : breathtaking a cappella interpretations of the Octonaires de la Vanité du Monde by Paschal de L'Estocart (1582) and pieces from the Geneva Psalter (1562) meet the reworkings of Sylvain Chauveau. The voices of chant 1450, trained in early music, sing these pieces with lyrics about transience full of emotionand elegance.
Sylvain Chauveau processed individual pieces electronically, whereby transience remains sonically present in his always surprising versions. The reworkings do not take early music as a fixed, quasi-museum repertoire, but as a starting point for something new - everything is in flux, is reinterpreted, changes. A wonderful stream of fantastic music emerges, with ancient and contemporary music coming closer together than one might initially expect. Le Beau du monde - a modern view on early music is the second collaboration by chant 1450 & Sylvain Chauveau after Echoes of Harmony - Early Music Reworked (SR447, 2017), both released by Sub Rosa.
chant 1450 Renaisance Ensemble sings and plays the sacred and secular repertoire of the 15th and 16th century. Including musicians trained at the widely renowned college for early music Schola cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, chant 1450 appeared live in January 2005 and sang then a highly acclaimed first tour in Switzerland with La contenance angloise - sacred music of the 15th century, followed by more than 250 live performances in Germany, Italy, Czech Republic and Switzerland until today. chant 1450 was invited to major festivals like the Rheingau Festival (Germany), the Montalbâne Festival (Germany), Festival for Early Music Zurich and many more. Artistic Director and responsible for all programmes and recordings including sounddesign is Daniel Manhart, a tenor born in Switzerland.
Sylvain Chauveau has made solo records on labels such as FatCat, Sub Rosa, Flau, Sonic Pieces: minimal compositions for acousticinstruments, electronics and vocals. His music has been reviewed in The Wire, Pitchfork, Mojo, Les Inrockuptibles, Libération, BBC, The Washington Post. One of his tracks was published on the compilation XVI Reflections on Classical Music (Decca/Universal) alongside pieces in Europe, America and Asia. He is the co-director of Ensemble 0. Since 2019, he is committed to the reduction of the ecological imprint of music.