Machaut: Ay mi!

Machaut: Ay mi!
Lais et virelais
Emmanuel Bonnardot
Opus 111 30-171

Reissued in Opus 111 2004.

Contents:

  1. Quant je suis mis au retour (virelai; voice, fiddle)
  2. Dou mal qui m'a longuement (virelai; voice, fiddle)
  3. C'est force faire (virelai; fiddle)
  4. Loyauté que point ne delay (lai; voice, fiddle)
  5. Douce dame jolie (virelai; rebec)
  6. Mors sui se je ne vous voy (virelai à 2; voice, vihuela d'arco)
  7. Ay mi! Dame de valour (virelai; voice)
  8. Hé dame de valour (virelai; fiddle)
  9. Moult sui de bonne heure nee (virelai à 2; voice, vihuela d'arco)
  10. Hélas! et comment (virelai; cittern)
  11. Comment qu'a moy lonteinne (virelai; voice, cittern)
  12. Le lay de plour (lai; voice, fiddle, cittern)
  13. Dame, je weil endurer (virelai; vihuela d'arco)

Performer: Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, fiddle, rebec, cittern, vihuela d'arco)

Playing time: 55'

Recording date: June 1996 (Bretagne)

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 21/3- (January/February 1998)

This recording emphasizes Machaut's monophonic writing, including just two polyphonic tracks. The others are accompanied by drone, which serves to underscore certain melodic figures. The performance practice dates back to Binkley and beyond, but there is little to confirm it one way or another in 14th century sources.

This is a highly polished rendition. Note track transposition between CD & liner notes at 7 & 8.

A recording by the present performer and others, which connects Machaut's music with that of the previous generation:

Machaut et l'art des Trouvères
Vièles et voix du Moyen Age
Emmanuel Bonnardot et al.
Calliope 9308

A program devoted explicitly to the lais of the previous generation:

Tristan et Yseut
Alla Francesca - Brigitte Lesne & Pierre Hamon
Zig-Zag Territoires 051002

And a program which presents both Machaut's longest lai, and other complementary pieces in the genre:

L'amoureus tourment
Machaut et l'ancienne forge
Marc Mauillon / Vivabiancaluna Biffi / Pierre Hamon
Eloquentia 0607

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Todd M. McComb