The most famous of Renaissance chansons. In the terminology of the period, ‘The Flower of the loveliest songs’, ‘The Orchard of music’, ‘The Paragon of song’, here are 24 airs to be sung and played culled from the most famous collections of the French polyphonic chanson. Il est bel et bon, Hardys François, and other fricassées (pots-pourris) jostle one another joyously cheek by jowl in the unsurpassed interpretation by the group that is now known simply as ‘Les Janequin’.