Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria

Pierre de la Rue
Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Hungaroton 32018

Contents:

  1. Pourquoy tant me fault il attendre (2 voices, vielle, rebec, lute)
  2. Tous les regretz (voice, vielle, 2 rebecs)
  3. Pour ce que je suis (2 voices, vielle, rebec, lute)
  4. Trop plus secret (2 voices, vielle, rebec, lute)
  5. De l'oeil de la fille du roy (4 voices)
  6. Il viendra le jour désiré (2 voices, vielle, rebec, lute)
  7. Il est bien heureux (voice, recorder, vielle, rebec, lute)
  8. Pourquoy non... (4 voices)
  9. Autant en emporte le vent (lute, harp)
  10. A vous non autre (3 voices)
  11. Secretz regretz (recorder, 2 rebecs, lute, harp)
  12. Pour ung jamais (2 voices, rebec)
  13. Fraw Margretsen Lied / Pour ung jamais (recorder, 2 rebecs, lute, harp)
  14. Ce n'est pas jeu (4 voices)
  15. Tous nobles cuers (recorder, lute, harp)
  16. Cueurs desolez / Dies illa (5 voices)

Performers: Miklós Budai (lute), András Demjén (bass), Balázs Draskóczy (tenor, rebecs), Eszter Draskóczy (rebec), Lídia Draskóczy (vielle), Zoltán Kalmanovits (baritone), Károly Pászti (tenor, recorder), Ágnes Pintér (soprano, harp)

Playing time: 74'

Recording date: September 2000 (Hungaroton Studio)

La Rue's secular music has not faired well on recording, and so this is the first recording of many of these tracks.

Some other recordings which feature chansons by La Rue:

Carnetz secretz
Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin
Ambronay 007
The Art of Flemish Song
In the Courts of Europe
Live Oak
Centaur Records 2109
One
Ensemble de La Rue - William Kempster
Arktos CD 20041

Another recording by the present ensemble featuring slightly earlier chansons:

The Wedding of King Matthias & Beatrice
Corvina Consort
Harmonia Art Center 399

And other recordings by the present ensemble:

Palestrina: Priego alla beata Vergine
Madrigali spirituali a cinque voci (1594)
Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Hungaroton 32497
Salamone Rossi: The Songs of Solomon
Sacred vocal works in Hebrew
Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Hungaroton 32350
Le Jeune: Airs & Pseaumes
Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Hungaroton 32189
Balassi Bálint: Énekelt verset
Corvina Consort
Harmonia Art Center 307
Sacred Music of Medieval Hungary
Up to the age of the King Matthias
Corvina Consort
Harmonia Art Center 324
Psalterium - Genevan Psalms
Corvina Consort
Harmonia Art Center ???
Choralis Constantinus 500
Vocal liturgical music in the Habsburg imperial court
Corvina Consort, Discantus, Voces Æqualies, et al.
Choralis Constantinus 001
Officium Defunctorum
Lasso: Lectiones sacrae novem ex Libris Hiob
Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Emendé Production MDP 001
Officium in Nativitate Domini
Lasso: Lectiones matutinae de nativitas Christi / Responsoria in Nativitate Domini
Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits
Mæter Records 002

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Todd M. McComb