Machaut: Ma fin est mon commencement (R14)

Three-voice rondeau.

Sources: Machaut Manuscripts A E & G

Lyrics

Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin

Est teneüre vraiement
Ma fin est mon commencement.

Mes tiers chans trois fois seulement
Se retrograde et einsi fin.
Ma fin est mon commencement
Et mon commencement ma fin.

Discography

1. Adès COF 7078 [LPx3]
   L'art musical et poétique de Guillaume de Machaut - Motets / Ballades / Virelays - Le Remède de Fortune - Le Veoir Dit
   Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut de Paris - Guy Robert / Jean Belliard
   Rec.: 1975-1977

2. Archiv Produktion 457 618-2AH
   Dreams in the Pleasure Garden - Machaut: Chansons
   Orlando Consort
   Rel.: 1998

3. Arion 38 252 [LP]
   L'Art de Guillaume de Machaut
   Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin, dir.
   Rec.: 1974 or prior

4. Ars Harmonica AH 112
   Machaut - Trio Subtilior
   Trio Subtilior
   Rel.: 2002 (instr.)

5. Attacca Babel 9682 / 83 [CDx2]
   Res Musice: The Passion of Reason
   The Sour Cream Legacy
   Rec.: 1993

6. Bayard Musique 308 668
   Voyage au cœur du Moyen Âge
   Machaut: Rondeaux, Ballades, Motets, Virelais...
   Ensemble Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot
   Rec.: 2020

7. Bis 1229
   Antiquities
   Nobuko Imai / Mie Miki
   Rel.: 2004

8. Bongiovanni GB 5532-2
   Il Giardino dell'Amore - Musiche strumentali nell'Europa fra Medioevo e Rinascimento
   Consort Fontegara
   Rec.: 1993

9. Budapest Music Center BMCCD 090
   Offertorium
   Trio Lignum
   Rec.: 2003

10. Dorian "Discovery" DIS 80 123
    Chanterai - Music of Medieval France
    Sonus
    Rec.: 1993

11. ELN - Ensemble Laude Novella ELNCD 0302 [CD]
    Den Bakvända visan
    Medeltida musik kors och tvärs - Medieval music back and forth
    Laude Novella
    Rec.: 2002

12. HMV-Gramophone HMS 21 [78rpm]
    Guillaume de Machaut / Italian Polyphony 14th century
    Lemuel Hughes and Clarence Robert with instrumental ensemble; Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir.
    Rec.: 1953 or prior

    HMV HLP 5/6/7 [LPx3, mono, 25cm, Europe]
    The History of Music in Sound, Vol. III: Ars Nova and the Renaissance
    Various interprets
    Rec.: 1953 or prior

13. Hyperion CDA (or KA) 66 358 [CD or Cassette]
    Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de Notre Dame, Le lai de la fonteinne
    The Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier, dir.
    Rec.: 1987

14. Edelweiss ED 1021
    Guillaume de Machaut - La Messe Nostre-Dame, L'Amour Courtois
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin, dir.
    Rec.: 1990

15. EMI/HMV SLS 863 [LPx3]
    The Art of Courtly Love (Guillaume de Machaut and his Age - Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde - The Court of Burgundy)
    The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir.
    Rec.: 1972/1973

16. Hortus 35
    Polyphonie des XIVe et XVe siècles
    Louis Thiry
    Rec.: 2004

17. Hyperion 68318
    Machaut: The Lion of Nobility
    Orlando Consort
    Rec.: 2019

18. Jubal A 002
    Fumeux fume par fumee
    Speculum - Ernesto Schmied, dir.
    Rec.: 1998

19. Pandourion PRCD 1007 [CD]
    French Music of the 14th Century
    Machaut and the Following Generation
    De Organographia
    Rec.: 2003 or prior

20. Panton 8111 0056 [LP]
    Hommage à Machaut
    Ars Cameralis - Lukás Matousek, dir.
    Rec.: 1978 or prior

21. Philips "Universo-serie" 6580 026 [LP]
    Guillaume de Machaut - Balladen, Motetten. Rondeaus, Virelais
    Capella Lipsiensis - Dietrich Knothe, dir.
    Rec.: 1970

22. Studio SM 45-71 [17cm - 45 rpm]
    Guillaume de Machaut - Chansons
    Joseph Sage, Nathalie Nerval
    Rec.: 1961 or prior (reading only)

23. The Village & Early Music Society (no number) [CD]
    A Medieval Pilgrimage
    A Musical Tour of the Middle Ages
    AROW - American Recorder Orchestra of the West - Richard Geisler
    Rec.: 2004

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