It’s rare to get a concept disc of 16th-century repertoire. It’s even rarer to get one as elegantly conceived and executed as this. Au long de la Loire sees Ensemble Jacques Moderne and director Joel Suhubiette take a musical trip down the Loire from Le Puy to Nantes, following in the footsteps of composers including Janequin (employed at Angers), Ockeghem (Tours) and Guillaume Faugues (Bourges). A mixture of sacred and secular, including chansons, drinking songs, odes and motets, the program is shaped not only geographically but also as a...