The Art of Courtly Love
- The Art of Courtly Love - Chanson d'amour courtois
- Guillaume de Machaut and his Age - Late Fourteenth Century
Avant Garde - The Court of Burgundy
The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir
EMI (His Master's Voice) SLS 863 / 0C 191 05410-2 [LPx3,
UK]
EMI (Electrola) 1C 167 05410-2 [LPx3, Germany]
EMI (Voix de son Maître) 2C 167 05410-2 [LPx3,
France]
Seraphim SIC 6092 [LPx3, USA]
Seraphim S-6092 [3 Cassettes, USA]
Contents:
LP-1: Guillaume de Machaut and his Age
Jehan de Lescurel:
- Chanson: A vous douce debonnaire
Guillaume de Machaut:
- Motet: Hareu! hareu! le feu - Helas! ou sera pris confors
- Ballade: Amours me fait desirer
- Motet: Trop plus est belle - Biauté paree - Je ne sui
mie certeins
Pierre des Molins:
- Rondeau: Ami tout dous vis I
Rondeau: Ami tous dous vis II
Guillaume de Machaut:
- Virelai: Se je souspir
- Ballade: Dame se vous m'estés
- Virelai: Quant je sui mis
- Ballade: Mes esperis se combat
- Rondeau: Ma fin est mon commencement
—
- Virelai: Douce dame jolie
- Motet: De Bon Espoir - Puis que la douce
- Ballade: De toutes flours I
Ballade: De toutes flours II
- Double ballade: Quant Theseus - Ne quier veoir
Anon., 13th c.:
- Dance: La Septime estampie Real
Guillaume de Machaut:
- Rondeau: Quant j'ay l'espart
- Ballade: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent
François Andrieu:
- Double ballade: Armes, amours - O flour des flours
LP-2: Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde
Grimace:
- Virelai: A l'arme, a l'arme
Franciscus:
- Ballade: Phiton, phiton
Borlet:
- Virelai: Hé, trés doulz roussignol
Borlet (attr.):
Virelai: Ma tredol rosignol
Solage
- Rondeau: Fumeux fume
Johannes de Meruco:
- Ballade: De home vray
Anon., 14th c.:
- Dance: Istampitta Tre fontane
Jehan Vaillant:
- Rondeau: Trés doulz amis - Ma dame - Cent mille
fois
—
Pykini:
- Virelai: Plasanche or tost
Anthonello de Caserta:
- Ballade: Amour m'a le cuer mis
Anon., 14th c.:
- Motet: Tribum quem
Solage:
- Ballade: Helas! je voy mon cuer
Anon., 14th c.:
- Virelai: Contre le temps
Matheus de Perusio:
- Canon: Andray soulet
- Ballade: Le greygnour bien
Johannes Simon Hasprois:
- Ballade: Ma douce amour
Anon., 14th c.:
- Virelai: Restoés, restoés
LP-3: The Court of Burgundy
Guillaume Dufay:
- Rondeau: Ce moys de may
- Ballade: La belle se siet
Gilles Binchois:
- Rondeau: Je ne fai toujours
- Chanson: Files a marier
- Rondeau: Amoreux suy et me vient toute joye
- Ballade: Je loe Amours et ma dame mercye
Guillaume Dufay:
- Rondeau: Navré je suis d'un dart penetratif
- Motet: Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constatinopolitanae
(O trés piteulx - Omnes amici)
Anon., 13th c.:
- Dance: Basse danse I La Spagna
—
Guillaume Dufay
- Rondeau: Par droit je puis complaindre
- Rondeau: Donnés l'assault
Gilles Binchois
- Rondeau: Vostre trés doulx regart
Guillaume Dufay:
- Virelai: Hélas mon dueil
Gilles Binchois
- Rondeau: Bien puist
Guillaume Dufay:
- Stropha: Vergine bella
Anon:
- Dance: Basse danse II La Spagna
Performers:
The Early Music Consort of London
James Bowman (counter-tenor), Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Martyn
Hill (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (baritone), Michael Laird (cornet),
Iaan Wilson (cornet), Alan Lumsden (cornet, sackbut, recorder, slide
trumpet), Roger Brenner (sackbut), David Munrow (recorder, crumhorn,
shawm, kortholt, bagpipes), Oliver Brookes (recorder, crumhorn,
viol, rebec, crwth), James Tyler (crumhorn, viol, lute, citole),
Eleanor Sloan (fidle, rebec, harp), Christopher Hogwood (harp,
organ), David Corkhill (percussion)
David Munrow, dir.
Recording site and date:
Abbey Road Studios, London, UK [12/1972 & 01/1973];
Rel.: 1973
Playing time: 151' 38" app.
Compilation:
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 61284 22 [CDx2]
An additional track (tracks #6 of CD-1: Se ma dame m'a guerpy) was
not included in the original LP set; this is why the LP release
contains 50 tracks, the CD releae 51.
Excerpts:
[1]-[4] Virgin Classics 0946 356902 2 4
[CD] Music from the time of the Crusades (1096 - 1270)
[1]-[18] EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD-3454
[LP]- Guillaume de Machaut and his Age (Also released EMI (Voix de
son Maître) VSM-3454 (aka Chanson d'amour courtois de Guillaume
de Machaut à Guillaume Dufay))
[19]-[34] EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD-3621
[LP] Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde
[35]-[50] EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD-3643
[LP] The Court of Burgundy
[11], [24], [35], [42] EMI (His Master's
Voice) SLS-5136 [LP] The Art of David Munrow
[35] EMI Classics 0946 3 61524 2 4
[CD] Music of the Renaissance: The Da Vinci Collection
Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 51/607-1238
Comments:
Information from three-LPs album and Yvonne Cairns (for comments
on additional track).
The CD edition is numbered as a set as 7243 5 61284 2 2,
but individual CD are numbered 7243 5 61285 2 2 and 7243
5 61286 2 2.
To FAQ references to this recording.
To FAQ CD index page.
Pierre-F. Roberge