Machaut: Remède de Fortune

Remède de Fortune

Ensemble Project Ars Nova
New Albion 068

Contents:

1. Biaute paree de valour (2 vielles, harp, lute)
2. Lai: Qui n'aroit autre deport (voice, harp)
3. Liement me deport (vielle, lute)
4. Complainte: Tels rit (voice, vielle, symphonia)
5. Chant Royal: Joie, plaisance (voice, vielle)
6. Baladelle: En amer a douce vie (voice, 2 vielles, lute)
7. Toute flour (vielle, lute)
8. Ballade: Dame, de qui toute (voice, 2 vielles)
9. Danse balladée (2 vielles)
10. Chanson Balladée: Dame a vous (tutti)
11. Rondelet: Dame mon cuer en vous remaint (3 voices)
12. Rondeau: Rose liz (tutti)

Performers: Michael Collver (alto, symphonia), John Fleagle (tenor, harp), Shira Kammen (vielle), Laurie Monahan (mezzosoprano), Crawford Young (lute), Robert Mealy (vielle)

Playing time: 60'

Recording date: November 1993

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 18/2- (November/December 1994)

The Remède de Fortune is one of Machaut's most famous publications, combining musical scores into a larger poetic narrative. This performance includes instrumental improvisation in some selections.

A performance of the full text:

Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune

Marc Mauillon, Pierre Hamon, et al.
Eloquentia 0918 (2 CDs)

A program by an overlapping ensemble:

Mercy ou mort

Machaut: Chansons & motets d'amour
Ensemble Ferrara - Crawford Young
Arcana 305

A couple of recent recordings featuring similar presentations:

Machaut: Chansons

Ars Cameralis - Lukas Matousek
Studio Matous MK 0027

Machaut - S'onques doulereusement

The Little Consort - Frans Brüggen
Channel Classics 0390

And a few other significant recordings devoted partly or primarily to Machaut:

Codex Reina

Ballades, Virelais et Rondeaux, 14ème siècle
Continens Paradisi
Symphonia 97155

Guillaume Machaut & his time

14th Century French Ars Nova
Ensemble Alba Musica Kyo
Channel Classics 7094

L'Art des Jongleurs, Vol. 1

Estampies Italiennes / Virelais de Machaut
Ensemble Tre Fontane
ADDA 590126

Chanterai

Music of Medieval France
Sonus Ensemble
Dorian Discovery 80123

A prominent earlier dramatic-integrated work based largely on poetic narrative:

Adam de la Halle: Le jeu de Robin et Marion

Micrologus
Zig-Zag Territoires 040602

Finally, a more intimate recital by two of the present performers:

World's Bliss

Medieval Songs of Love and Death
John Fleagle / Shira Kammen
Archetype 60103

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