Armes, Amours

Armes, Amours
Alla Francesca / Alta
Opus 111 30-221

Contents:

  1. Robert Morton (c.1430-c.1476): Il sera / L'ome armé (rondeau; shawm, bombarde, trumpet)
  2. Anon: Ho, ho, ho (3 voices)
  3. Magister Grimace (fl.c.1350-75): A l'arme, a l'arme (virelai; bagpipe, shawm, bombarde, trumpet)
  4. F. Andrieu (fl.c.1380): Armes, amours / O flour des flours (ballade; 2 voices, harp)
  5. Anon. / Conrad Paumann (c.1410-1473): Mit ganczem Willen (lied; vihuela, harp, dulcian, recorder, pipe & tabor, fiddle, cornet)
  6. Morton: N'aray je jamais mieulx (rondeau; voice, lute, vihuela, harp)
  7. Anon: Man, assay (carol; shawm, bombarde, trumpet)
  8. Anon. Buxheimer: J'ay pris amours (recorder, harp)
  9. Anon: J'ay pris amours (voice, harp, vihuela, recorder, lute)
  10. Anon: Or sus vous dormes trop (virelai; shawm, bombarde, trumpet)
  11. Gilles Joye (1424/5-1483): Ce qu'on fait a quatimini (rondeau; voice, vihuela, fiddle)
  12. Anon: Helas, Olivier Basselin (complainte; 2 voices, 2 pipe & tabor sets)
  13. Anon: Ecce quod natura (carol; 2 recorders)
  14. Johannes Ghiselin (fl.c.1500): La Spagna (dulcian, vihuela, fiddle, harp, percussion)
  15. Binchois: Tant plus ayme (rondeau; voice, harp)
  16. Busnoys: Est-il merchy (rondeau; 3 voices)
  17. Anon: Bel fiore (dança; recorder, vihuela, harp, lute)
  18. Morton: Il sera / L'ome armé (rondeau; shawm, bombarde, trumpet, percussion)

Performers: Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, vihuela d'arco), Raphaël Boulay (voice), Pierre Hamon (recorders, bagpipes, pipe & tabor), Marco Horvat (voice, lute, fiddle), Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp), Pierre Boragno (bombarde, recorders, pipe & tabor), Gilles Rapin (slide trumpet, cornet), Michèle Vandenbroucque (shawm, dulcian)

Playing time: 56'

Recording date: February 1997 (Paris)

This is another fascinating program which works to blur the so-called "cusp" between the medieval and Renaissance secular idioms. Major sources are the Chansonnier Mellon (c.1475), Codex Chantilly (c.1400), Codex Reina (c.1405), and Chansonnier Cordiforme (c.1470).

In addition, the art of intabulation is highlighted here. Recordings devoted to the two principal sources from this period, as used in the present program:

Codex Faenza: Italie, XVe siècle
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord 1901354
Das Buxheimer Orgelbuch, Volume 1
Fifteenth Century Organ Transcriptions
Joseph Payne
Naxos 8.553466

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Todd M. McComb