Machaut: Remede de Fortune

Machaut: Remede de Fortune
Orlando Consort
Hyperion 68399 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Qui n'aroit autre deport (monophonic lay, n19/RF1)
  2. Mais quant je voy (part II)
  3. Dont la bonne et belle (part III)
  4. Tieus rit au main qui au soir pleure (monophonic, RF2)
  5. Fortune a plus de mil engiens (part II)
  6. Las ! Dolens ! C'est ce qui esface (part III)
  7. Joye, plaisance (monophonic, RF3)
  8. En amer a douce vie (ballade a4, n41/RF4)
  9. Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient (ballade a2, n42/RF5)
  10. Dame, a vous sans retollir (monophonic virelai, n33/RF6)
  11. Dame, mon cuer en vous remaint (rondeau a3, n22/RF7)
  12. Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient (ballade a4)

Performers: Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)

Playing time: 72'

Recording date: November 2021 (Essex); released: 2023

Tracks Nos. 1-3 use different singers (with different ranges) to accommodate the wide range of the lai. And tracks Nos. 4-6 do not present the complete complainte, but rather verses 1-4, 14-19 & 32-36.

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Todd M. McComb