«Canzonette» is a program composed of Italian madrigas from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. These love songs have graced the evenings and feasts of the nobility of northern Italy since the beginning of the Renaissance. While delicately combining the pangs of unrequited feelings with the love transports, the music borrows the rhythms of popular dances as if to make the listener understand the universal irony of the situation of the lover who chains himself to the object of his desire. Two composers will be featured. Next to 2 madrigals of the immense Monterverdi, we will hear 2 pieces of one of his predecessors, fallen into oblivion, Antonio Morsolino.
The 6 singers of the ensemble of the Cie des Humbles, under the direction of Xavier Claverie-Rospide, accompanied by a viola de gambe and a lute recreate for one night the atmosphere of the evenings that could be organized in this particular hotel in the heart of the French Renaissance.