Machaut - La Fontaine Amoureuse

Guillaume de Machaut: La Fontaine Amoureuse
A Medieval Evening of Poetry and Music by Guillaume de Machaut
Music for a While
Arch Records S-1773 [LP]

Contents:

    Guillaume de Machaut: Le Lay de la Fonteinne
  1. Prologue I: I, Nature, who have formed all things below ...

    2. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
  2. Chant royal: Joie, plaisance, et douce nourriture (RF3)

    3. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Lay de la Fonteinne
  3. Prologue III: I am love who have inflamed ...

    4. Guillaume de Machaut
  4. Motet: Dame, je sui cilz / Fins cuers doulz / Fin cuers doulz (M11)

    5. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
  5. I quickly fell before her ...

    6. Guillaume de Machaut
  6. Rondeau: Cinc, un trese, wit, neuf d'amour fine (R6)

    7. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
  7. And when the dance was done ...

    8. Guillaume de Machaut
  8. Hoquetus David (instr.)

    9. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
  9. All ran to their tasks ...

    10. Guillaume de Machaut
  10. Virelai: Je vivroie liement (V23/21)

    11. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
  11. Midnight came and went ...

    12. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Livre du Voir Dit
  12. She who has never seen you ...

    13. Guillaume de Machaut
  13. Ballade (a 3): Biaute qui toutes autres pere (B4)

    14. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune
  14. Fortune has a thousand clever ways ...
  15. Complainte: Tels rit au main qui au soir pleure I (RF2)
  16. Love, love, what have you done ...
  17. Complainte: Tels rit au main qui au soir pleure II (RF2)

    18. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Jugement du Roy de Navarre
  18. When God from his mansion looking down ...

    19. —
    Guillaume de Machaut: Le Lay de la Fonteinne
  19. Lai: Je ne cesse de prier (L16/11)
  20. Prologue V: I've heard tell ...

    21. Guillaume de Machaut
  21. Foy porter

Playing time: 31' 13" + 31' 34" = 62' 47"

Performers:
Music for a While
LaNoue Davenport (recorders, psaltery, drum), Judith Davidoff (vielle, rebec, kemençe, saz), Christopher Kenny (voice, vielle, harp, bells), Sheila Schonbrun (voice, organetto, tambourine, finger cymbals)
with Tom Klunis (actor).

Recording site and date:
1750 Arch Studio, Berkeley, California [08/1977];
Rel.: 1977

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 3/1-10 (September/October 1979)

Comments:
Information from LP. Members of this group were former members of the New York Pro Musica.

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Pierre-F. Roberge