La Nef
La Nef (French: The Nave (of a ship or church or a medieval boat) is a French-Canadian early music performance group founded in Quebec in 1991. The founding members were Sylvain Bergeron, the guitar and musical director; and Claire Gignac, the contralto, recorder, theatrical director; and Viviane LeBlanc, soprano. Their first show was Musiques pour Jeanne la Folle ("Music for Joan the Mad"), later recorded as a CD for Dorian Recordings.
Genre: celtic, medieval, sea-shanties, folk-quebecois
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Top Tracks
- Lonc tems ai - Lo ferm vole (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Falsedatz et desmezura (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Veni Sancte Spiritus (arr. S. Bergeron)
- La Seconde Estampie Royal (arr. S. Bergeon)
- Reis glorios: Ouverture (arr. S. Bergeron)
- La Quarte Estampie Royal (arr. S. Bergeron)
- La tierche estampie real (arr. S. Bergeron)
- C'est la Fins - La Quinte Estampie Real (arr. S. Bergeron)
- La Septime Estampie Real (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Cantiga No. 1, "Des oge mais quer' eu trobar" (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Reis glorios, verais lums e clardatz (arr. S. Bergeron)
- A chantar m'er de so qu'eu no volria (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Quan vei la lauzeta mover (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Beata viscera (arr. S. Bergeron): Beata Viscera (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Perceval la quete du Graal: Le depart de Beaurepaire
- Perceval la quete du Graal: A jig
- Perceval la quete du Graal: The Arran boat
- Jhesus Crist filh de Dieu viu (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Cantiga No. 340, "Virgen madre groriosa" (arr. S. Bergeron)
- Benedicite Parcite Nobis (arr. S. Bergeron)
Albums (29)
- RED SKY AT NIGHT (2024)
- MUSICA FICTA (2023)
- Monsoon Love Vol 7 (2023)
- Monsoon Love Vol 6 (2023)
- Shanties! (Live) (2022)
- Baratin d'marins (2022)
- The People's Purcell (2018)
- Sea Songs & Shanties (2017)
- Trobairitz: Poems of Women Troubadours (2013)
- Turlutte et Reel (2012)
- Sacrum Mysterium (A Celtic Christmas Vespers) (2012)
- O Sweet Woods Irish & Scottish Airs (2012)
- Dowland in Dublin (2012)
- Deserts (2011)
- Montsegur (La tragedie cathare) (2011)
- The Garden of Earthly Delights (2011)
- Montsegur (La tragedie cathare) (2011)
- The Eternal Harp (2011)
- Les musiques d’Urnos (1970)
- Nobil Donna (2010)
- La traverse miraculeuse (2008)
- The Battle of Killiecrankie: Love & War Songs in Free Scotland (2007)
- Musiques des montagnes: musiques et chants de la Grèce et des Balkans (2006)
- Oikan Ayns Bethlehem: Celtic Christmas Songs (2005)
- My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose: Settings of Robert Burns (2004)
- La machine à explorer le tempo (2003)
- Bergeron, S.: Perceval La Quete Du Graal (The Quest for the Grail, Vol. 2) (La Nef) (2001)
- Bergeron, S.: Perceval La Quete Du Graal (The Quest for the Grail, Vol. 1) (La Nef) (1999)
- La Nef: Music for Joan the Mad (La Nef) (1995)
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