Celle qui a fascheux mari

This French secular chanson from the Renaissance offers a playful, perhaps slightly scandalous, perspective on marital woes. The text paints a scene where Alice confides in Colette about her troublesome husband, lamenting that a married woman must surely have a heavy heart and that sleeping alone would be preferable. Colette offers a rather cheeky solution: if the husband sleeps soundly, the best and surest remedy is to find a lover. The four-part setting for ATTB voices captures the lighthearted and witty nature of this conversational exchange.