Guillaume de Machaut: Chansons (Volume 1)

Guillaume de Machaut: Chansons I
Studio der frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.
EMI "Reflexe" 1C 063-30 106 [LP-Stereo]
EMI "Reflexe" 1C 263-30 106 [Cass.-Stereo]
EMI "Reflexe" CDM or 555 7 63142 2 [CD]
Angel "Reflexe" CDM 7 63142 2 [CD]
EMI "Reflexe" 7243 8 26472 2 [CD]

Contents:

    Guillaume de Machaut:
  1. Virelais: Ay mi!
  2. Lais: Loyauté
  3. Virelais: Comment qu'a moy lointeinne
  4. Ballade: Quant je sui mis au retour
  5. Chanson royale: Joie, plaisence
  6. Complainte: Tel rits au matin
  7. Virelais: Dame a vous

  8. Guillaume de Machaut: Le lay de la fonteinne
  9. I. Je ne cesse de prier
  10. II. Et ou porroit on querir
  11. III. C'est celle
  12. IV. Ce trois-un
  13. V. Et qui de ceste eaue
  14. VI. Mais ceste trinite

  15. ----
  16. VII. De la duis le pere nomme
  17. VIII. Et pour ce di
  18. IX. Pour ce te pri
  19. X. Mais de tel confort
  20. XI. He! fonteinne de concorde
  21. XII. Pour laver et nettoier

Playing time: 56' 38"

Performers: Studio der frühen Musik [Andrea von Ramm (mezzo-soprano, harp), Richard Levitt (countertenor, glockenspiel), Sterling Jones (fiddle, lyre, organetto), Thomas Binkley (lute, tambourine)] & Chorus [Dominique Bello, Patricia Calamaro, Marie-Paule Canonia, Jacqueline Grieb, Tania Kestinsky, Jacqueline Magro, Said Saida, Denis Vial, Madame Fauré (chorus master)] - Thomas Binkley, dir.

Recording site and date:
St. Victor, Marseille [09/1971];
Released: 2000 (Reflexe CD, 7243)

Variants
Label may vary (EMI-VSM (France), Odeon or Peters)

Compilation:
EMI "Reflexe" 1C 163 30 101 / 006Y [LPx6] EMI "Reflexe" - Stationen Europäischer Musik" Vol. 1; also released as Cassette and CD.

Excerpts: none [8], [19] Focus 883-2 / 883-4 [LP / Cass.] Music in medieval Europe 1 & 2

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 180-30 (october 1973), 216-33 (april 1977)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge