Machaut: Complete Motets
- Machaut: Les motets
- Ensemble Musica Nova
Zig-Zag Territoires 021002.2 (2 CDs)
Aeon AECD 1108 (2 CDs)
Contents:
- Motet No. 6: S'il estoit nul qui pleindre se deüst
(triplum)
- Motet No. 6: Et gaudebit cor vestrum / S'amours tous amans
joïr / S'il estoit nuls qui pleindre se deüst
- Motet No. 8: Et non est qui adjuvet / Ha! Fortune / Qui es
promesses
- Motet No. 3: Fine Amours (motetus; instrumental)
- Motet No. 9: Fera pessima / O livoris feritas / Fons totius
- Motet No. 5: Fiat voluntas tua / Qui plus aimme / Aucune
gent
- Motet No. 13: Eins que ma dame (motetus)
- Motet No. 13: Tant doucement (triplum)
- Motet No. 14: De ma dolour (motetus)
- Motet No. 14: Maugré mon cuer (triplum)
- Motet No. 15: Vidi Dominum / Faus Samblant m'a deceü /
Amours qui ha le pouvoir
- Motet No. 19: A Christo honoratus / Diligenter inquiramus /
Martyrum gemma
- Motet No. 18: Bone pastor / Bone pastor / Bone pastor
- Motet No. 4: De Bon espoir (triplum)
- Motet No. 7: Ego moriar pro te / Lasse! je suis en aventure /
J'ai tant mon cuer
- Motet No. 20: Je ne suis mie certeins / Biauté parée
de valour / Trop plus est bele
- Motet No. 17: Super omnes speciosa / O series summe rata! /
Quant Vraie Amour (instrumental)
- Motet No. 21: Tribulatio proxima est et non est qui adjuvet /
Veni, creator spiritus / Christe, qui lux es
- Motet No. 4: Puis que la douce rousée (motetus)
- Motet No. 11: Fins cuers dous / Fins cuers dous / Dame, je sui
cils
- Anon (rondeau): Por coi me bait mes maris?
- Motet No. 16: Por coi me bait mes maris / Se j'aim mon loyal
ami / Lasse! comment oublieray
- Motet No. 23: Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes / Inviolata
genetrix / Felix virgo
- Motet No. 20: Je ne suis mie certeins (tenor)
- Motet No. 12: Libera me / Corde mesto / Helas! pour quoy
- Motet No. 15: Vidi Dominum Faus Samblant m'a deceü / Amours
qui ha le pouvoir (instrumental diminution)
- Motet No. 1: Amara valde / Amour et biauté / Quant en
moy
- Motet No. 2: Suspiro / De souspirant / Tous corps qui de bien
amer
- Motet No. 4: Speravi / Puis que la douce rousée / De
Bon Espoir (instrumental)
- Motet No. 10: Obediens usque ad mortem / Helas! où sera
pris confors / Hareu! hareu! le feu
- Motet No. 17: Super omnes speciosa / O series summa rata! /
Quant Vraie Amour
- Motet No. 11: Fins cuers dous (tenor; instrumental)
- Motet No. 22: Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge / Plange
regni respublica / Tu qui gregem
- Motet No. 3: Quare non sum mortuus / Fine Amour / He! Mors
Performers: Christel Boiron (mezzo-soprano), Lucien Kandel
(tenor), Caroline Magalhães (mezzo-soprano), Thierry Peteau
(tenor), Anne Quentin (soprano), Gwénaël Bihan (recorder),
Marion Fourquier (harp), Lucas Guimarães Peres (vielle),
Martin Bauer (vielle), Patrick Bernatene (percussion), Marie Claude
Vallin (soprano), Marc Busnel (bass)
Playing time: 91' 30" (Zig-Zag), 91" 22' (Aeon)
Recording date: April 2002 (Pigna);
Released: 2002 (Zig-Zag), 2011 (Aeon)
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 479-100 (November 2002); 593-75 (July/August
2011)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 28/1 (September/October 2004); 35/2-477
(november/december 2011)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 1076/89-107 (Awards 2011)
Some tracks feature individual voices from motets, as noted.
Motet No. 12 is a first recording.
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Todd M. McComb