Metronome announces a new CD release of the stunning “Airs”, performed by Charles Daniels (tenor) and Fred Jacobs (French theorbo). This is a very rare release of repertoire largely ignored in the modern day partly for its highly technical ornamented style. To accompany Charles Daniels, one of the leading early music tenors in the world at the peak of his form, Fred Jacobs picks up a Michael Lowe reconstruction of a French theorbo and in an Anglo- Dutch alliance assails a style from the altesse of the French Court. An art form of dexterity, virtuosic singing and delicacy the “Airs de Cours” emerged as the key song form in the 17th century households of the French aristocracy. Michel Lambert (1610-1696) occupies a central position by virtue of the quantity (almost three hundred airs) and the quality of his output.