French Medieval Songs and Motets

The Medieval Romantics
French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440
Gothic Voices - Christopher Page
Hyperion CDA 66 463 [CD]
Hyperion KA 66 463 [Cass.]
Hyperion Helios CDH 55293 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Quiconques veut d'amours joïr (4 voices)
  2. Je languis d'amere mort (voice, harp, lute)
  3. Solage: Joieux de cuer en seumellant estoye (4 voices)
  4. Quant voi le douz tans / En mai / Latus (3 voices)
  5. J de Porta: Alma polis religio / Axe poli cum artica (4 voices)
  6. Machaut: C'est force, faire le weil (voice)
  7. Paolo Tenorista: Sofrir m'estuet et plus non puis durer (3 voices)
  8. Plus bele que flors / Quant revient / L'autrier jouer / Flos Filius Eius (4 voices)
  9. Machaut: Tant doucement me sens emprisonnes (2 voices)
  10. Degentis vita / Cum vix artidici (4 voices)
  11. Mais qu'il vous viengne a plaisance (voice, harp, lute)
  12. Jacob de Senleches: En ce gracieux tamps joli (3 voices)
  13. Machaut: Comment qu'a moy lonteinne (voice)
  14. Dufay: Je requier a tous amoureux (3 voices)
  15. Dufay: Las, que feray? Ne que je devenray (harp, lute)
  16. Gilet Velut: Je voel servir plus c'onques mais (3 voices)
  17. Johannes de Lymburgia: Tota pulcra es, amica mea (4 voices)

Performers: Margaret Philpot, Rogers Covey-Crump, Andrew Tusa, Charles Daniels, Leigh Nixon, Stephen Charlesworth, Donald Greig, Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Christopher Page (lute)

Playing time: 56'

Recording date: May 1991

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 15/4- (March/April 1992); 31/6-325 (July/August 2008)
Goldberg (y., #-p.): 2008, 54-86

This recording set the stage for the continued exploration of vocal sonority in untexted parts by this ensemble.

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Todd M. McComb