Machaut: Le Jugement du Roi de Navarre

Le Jugement du Roi de Navarre

Machaut: Ballades, motets, virelais et textes dits
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Cantus 9626

Contents:

1. Chanson roial: Joie, plaisance et douce nourriture (fiddle, gittern, recorder, percussion)
2. Ballade: Tres douce dame que j'aour (voice, harp)
3. Poem: Un po apres le temps d'autonne
4. Motet: Plange regni / Tu qui gregem tuum ducis (4 voices)
5. Poem: Et tout einsi com je cuidoie
6. Motet: O livoris feritas / Fons totius superbie (3 voices)
7. Poem: Et quant Nature vit ce fait
8. Virelai: Puisque ma dolour (fiddle, flute, gittern)
9. Poem: Si que ces tempestes cesserent
10. Messe de Nostre Dame: Kyrie (4 voices)
11. Poem: Si que tres bien me confessay
12. Virelai: J'aim sans penser (fiddle, rebec, gittern, bagpipe, percussion)
13. Ballade: Esperance qui m'asseüre (2 voices)
14. Ballade: Quand Theseüs / Ne quier veoir (4 voices)
15. Poem: Damoiselle, la traïson de Theseüs
16. Ballade; 2-part arr., Faenza Codex: Honte, paour doubtance (2 recorders)
17. Poem: Adont commensa Souffissance
18. Ballade: Nes que on porroit les estoilles nombrer (3 voices)
19. Poem: Quant leur consaus fu affinez
20. Ballade: Amours me fait désirer (voice, flute, fiddle)

Performers: Anne-Marie Lablaude (voice), Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp, percussion), Akira Tachikawa (voice), Dominique Vellard (voice, gittern), Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, fiddle, rebec), Pierre Hamon (recorders, flute, bagpipes), Randall Cook (fiddle, recorder), Jean-Paul Racodon (recitation)

Playing time: 65'

Recording date: October, 1994 (Eglise de Grancey le Château, Côte-d'Or, France) for Harmonic; CD issued on Cantus in 1998

Compilation:
Brilliant classics 94217 [CDx3 + CD-ROM] Guillaume de Machaut c1300-1301: Sacred and Secular Music

Excerpts:
[1], [12], [16] Cantus C 9705/6 Dictionary of Medieval & Renaissance Instruments

Although it does not date from the same recording session as the renowned Le vray remède d'amour program, this is a recording made by Harmonic which did not make it into distribution at the time. It has finally been released on Cantus in lavish packaging and with ample documentation.

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