PAUL LADMIRAULT (1877-1944): Mixed Choir: Je me levay par un matin, Le Charbonnier, Plantons le Mai, Le Matin, En Paradis, La Violette, La Poule Blanche, Mixed Choir and Piano: Chansons Ecossaises, The Miller's Song, Légende de St-Efflamm, Nôtre Dame du Folgoat, Women's Choir: Annaïk, Le réveil du village, Bel Aubépin, L'Alouette, Revoici le printemps, Le Tambourinaire, Roséis.

Description: This composer's Celtic bent is to the fore again in the biggest work here, the 36-minute sequence of Scottish folksongs whose texts by Burns and other Scots poets Ladmirault translated himself (yes, "The Bonny Shores of Loch Lomond" is one of them). The other half of the disc sets French poets of all periods from the 14th century to Ladmirault's day with the same blend of modal turns and modulation and refined polyphonic writing. French texts. Colette Diard (piano), Ensemble Vocal Mélisme(s); Gildas Pungier.