Music at the Burgundian Court

Music at the Burgundian Court - Musique à la Cour de Bourgogne (1450-1500) - Dufay, Ockeghem, Obrecht

Pro Musica Antiqua (Brussels) - Safford Cape, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 634 [LP, mono]
Amadeo AVRS 5028 [LP, mono]
Vanguard "Everyman" 08 6124 71 [CD]

Contents:

Anon.

1. Dance: Dit le Bourguynon

Arnold de Lantins

2. Puisque je voy, belle

Guillaume Dufay

3. Hé! Compaignons

Johannes Ockeghem

4. D'un autre amer cueur s'abesseroit?

Jacob Obrecht:

5. Tsat een meskin

Robert Morton

6. N'arraige-je jamais mieulx

Guillaume Dufay

7. J'attendray tant qu'il vous playra
8. Sequence for Whitsunday: Veni sancte Spiritus

Guillaume Dufay, Missa "Se la face ay pale"

9. Hosanna

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Gilles Binchois

10. Amours merchi
11. De plus en plus
12. Amoreux suy
13. Adieu, adieu, mon joieulx souvenir
14. Je loe amours
15. Triste plaisir
16. Filles à marier
17. Hymn for Whitsuntide: Beata nobis gaudia
18. Agnus Dei

Playing time: 51' 42"

Performers: Pro Musica Antiqua [Renée Defraiteur (soprano), Christiane Plessis (contralto), René Letroye (tenor), Franz Mertens (tenor), Max Bourdon (bass), Hertha Theunen-Seidl (lute), Silva Devos (recorders), Janine Rubinlicht (descant viol), Gaston Dôme (tenor viol), André Douvere (tenor viol)] - Safford Cape, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1954 or prior]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned LP & CD and Georges Lobo. The CD re-issue is a pure delight. Another proof that Cape was the first in the 50's to interpret the music of that period with an approach very close to what we hear today. It is sad that nearly all of his production is no more available since the late 60's. This CD deserves a wider distribution with more explanatory notes and credits to performers especially the soprano and contralto (that appeared on the LP).

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