Ockeghem: Chansons
- Ockeghem: Complete Secular Music
- Medieval Ensemble of London - Peter Davies / Timothy Davies
L'Oiseau Lyre 436 194 (2 CDs)
Tower Records (Japan) Universal Vintage Collection PROA-40
(2 CDs)
Contents:
- Ma bouche rit et ma pense pleure (2 voices, fiddle)
- La despourveue et la bannye (voice, harp, gittern)
- D'un autre amer mon cuer s'abesseroit (voice, 2 fiddles)
- Quant ce viendra au droit destraindre (2 voices, gittern)
- Il ne m'en chault plus de nul ame (2 voices, fiddle)
- Presque trainsi ung peu moins qu'estre mort (voice, harp,
gittern)
- Ma maistresse et ma plus grant amye (voice, 2 fiddles)
- Les desleaux ont la saison (2 voices, harp)
- Mort tu as navre de ton dart (4 voices)
- Quant de vous seul je pers la veue (voice, harp, lute)
- Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient (2 voices, fiddle)
- Prenez sur moi vostre exemple amoureux (voice, shawm,
gittern)
- Fors seulement l'actente que je meure (2 voices, lute)
- L'autre d'antan l'autrier passa (2 voices, fiddle)
- S'elle m'amera je ne scay (4 voices)
- O rosa bella o dolce anima mia (voice, lute)
- Tant fuz gentement resjouy (voice, 2 fiddles)
- Je n'ay dueil que je ne suis morte (2 voices, lute)
- Malheur me bat (harp, dulcimer, lute)
- Se vostre cuer (2 shawms, sackbut)
- Cornago: Qu'es mi vida preguntays (3 recorders)
- Cornago / Ockeghem: Qu'es mi vida preguntays (voice, dulcian,
rebec, gittern)
- Je n'ay dueil (rebec, dulcimer, dulcian, lute)
- Ce n'est pas jeu desloigner ce qu'on ame (3 voices)
- Resjois toy terre de France (4 voices)
- Departez vous (flute, fiddle, lute)
- Ung aultre l'a n'en queres plus (2 voices, fiddle)
- Autre Venus estes sans faille (voice, 2 fiddles)
- Baissiez moi dont fort (recorder, rebec, gittern)
- Fors seulement contre ce qu'ay promis (3 voices)
Performers: Margaret Philpot (alto), Timothy Penrose (countertenor),
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (baritone), Michael George
(baritone), Peter Davies (recorder, flute, dulcian, shawm, harp),
Andrew Watts (shawm, recorder), Martin Pope (sackbut, recorder),
Timothy Davies (gittern, lute), Gregory Knowles (dulcimer), Robert
Cooper (fiddle, rebec), William Hunt (fiddle)
Playing time: 131'
Recording date: February 1981; reissued on CD: 1993 from original
LP set L'Oiseau Lyre 254
This is a very fine project, one of the best 15th century song
collections made to date.
A second recording devoted to these chansons:
- Ockeghem: Chansons
- Romanesque - Philippe Malfeyt
Ricercar 206 302
And another containing several of Ockeghem's songs:
- Ockeghem: Missa De plus en plus & Chansons
- Orlando Consort
DG Archiv 453 419
The companion set by the present ensemble:
- Dufay: Complete Secular Music
- Medieval Ensemble of London - Peter & Timothy Davies
L'Oiseau Lyre 452 557 (5 CDs)
See also: Medieval Ensemble of
London Discography.
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Todd M. McComb