Guillaume de Machaut

(c.1300-77)

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Machaut - Two Polyphonic Lais

Machaut - Two Polyphonic Lais


Machaut:

Le Lai de Ia Fonteinne

Un Lay de consolation


Rogers Covey-Crump, Paul Elliott & Andrew King (tenors)

The Medieval Ensemble of London, Peter & Timothy Davies

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Decca L'Oiseau Lyre - 4780026

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Scattered Rhymes

Scattered Rhymes


Bryars:

Super Flumina

Dufay:

Ave regina celorum

Machaut:

Messe de Nostre Dame

Douce dame jolie

O'Regan:

Scattered Rhymes

Orlando Consort

Douce dame jolie


Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (director)

Machaut's extraordinary Messe de Nostre Dame was not only the first complete mass setting in history, but also the first whose composer can be identified, making it emblematic of the Ars Nova style of the 14th century. In this recording, the Orlando Consort performs the mass in parallel with a work by Tarik O'Regan (born in 1978) which was inspired by it. Scattered Rhymes links two texts from the same period as Machaut's mass, one by Petrarch, the other an anonymous English poem. Both of them subtly combine earthly and divine love, while the music blends polyphonic tradition and contemporary inspiration. Scattered Rhymes was commissioned by the Spitalfields Festival and first performed with The Joyful Company of Singers. O'Regan's Douce dame jolie was commissioned by the Orlando Consort. Super flumina by Gavin Bryars was commissioned by the National Centre for Early Music,York. Ave Regina celorum by Guillaume Dufay is sung from an edition by Gareth Curtis. Two-time British Composer Award winner Tarik O'Regan was educated at Oxford University and completed his postgraduate studies at Cambridge. He now divides his time between Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts, and New York City, where he has held the Fulbright Chester Schirmer Fellowship at Columbia University and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard. Gavin Bryars, born in Yorkshire, was first of all a jazz bassist and pioneer of free improvisation with Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley. His early iconic works The Sinking of the Titanic (1969) and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet (1971), both enjoyed major recording success. He has written extensively for early music performers such as the Hilliard Ensemble, Red Byrd and Trio Medieval, and for the Estonian National Male Choir and the Latvian Radio Choir. The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir's repertoire ranges from Gregorian chant to 20th-century music, with special emphasis on Estonian composers like Arvo Pärt and Veljo Tormis. Many of the Choir's recordings have received the highest critical acclaim, including 5 Grammy nominations and a Grammy Award (Arvo Pärt, Da Pacem).Their conductor, Paul Hillier enjoys close creative relationships with a number of contemporary composers, most notably Steve Reich and Arvo Pärt. In 2007, he prepared Stockhausen's Stimmung with Theatre of Voices for a UK tour and subsequent recording. Since its formation in 1988, the award-winning Orlando Consort has been hailed as the most imaginative champion of vocal music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; it now records exclusively for harmonia mundi USA.

“The four male voices of the Orlando Consort bring vigour and tonal variety to Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame, and its tenor Mark Dobell gives a lilting account of the composer's song Douce dame jolie. Tarik O'Regan's Virelai on the same tune then makes playful, contrapuntal use of its melodies. His Scattered Rhymes, inspired by the Mass, pairs the Consort in medieval English poetry with Paul Hillier's choir in texts by Petrarch: a vivid meditation on earthly and divine love. The Consort's perceptive accounts of Du Fay's Ave Regina celorum and Gavin Bryars's Super flumina complete the picture.” The Telegraph, 10th May 2008

“This collection has been programmed with considerable care. Machaut's glorious Messe de Nostre Dame forms its centre, both in terms of its musical substance and its famously provocative rhythmic and harmonic structure.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2008 *****

“Vocal treats in a meeting of old-fashioned sense and modern sensuality” Gramophone Magazine, October 2008

BBC Music Magazine

Choral & Song Choice - June 2008

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Machaut - Chansons

Machaut - Chansons


Machaut:

Tant doucement

Comme puet on

De Fortune

Mors sui, se je ne vous voy

Se quanque amours

Je ne cuit pas

Liement m depiort

Je puis trop bien

Certes mon oueil

En amer a douce vie

He! Dame de valour

Une vipere

Rondeau 14 'Ma fin est mon commencement'

De toutes flours


Orlando Consort

“NOTHING QUITE LIKE THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE: A DISC DEVOTED ENTIRELY TO MACHAUT’S SONGS, ALL PERFORMED WITH VOICES ALONE. ONLY THE TEXTED LINE IN THE MANUSCRIPTS IS SUNG WITH TEXT; THE REST ARE VOCALIZED…IT WORKS VERY WELL” – DAVID FALLOWS (GRAMOPHONE) · “MORE THAN 600 YEARS ON, IT IS STILL STRANGE AND WONDERFUL MUSIC” – ANDREW CLEMENTS (THE GUARDIAN)

DG Archiv Al Fresco - 4776731

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Guillaume De Machaut - Loving Torment

Guillaume De Machaut - Loving Torment


anon.:

De cuer je soupire

Lai de la Pastourelle

Lescurel:

Comment que, pour l'éloignance

Machaut:

Loyauté que point ne delay,Ay mi!


Marc Mauillon (tenor); Vivabiancaluna Biffi (hurdy-gurdy); Pierre Hamon (flutes, bagpipes & conductor)

Guillaume de Machaut was the most accomplished and versatile composer of the 14th century.A member of the household of King John of Bohemia from 1323, Machaut later became a canon of Reims, where he resided from 1340 until his death. His four-part Messe de Notre Dame is the earliest known polyphonic setting of the mass by a single composer. His musical works include 19 lays, 42 ballades, 21 rondeaux and 33 virelais. First recording of Loyauté... Machaut’s first lay, in its entirety.

Eloquentia - EL0607

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Antiquities

Antiquities

Music for Viola & Accordian


Bach, J S:

Italian Concerto, BWV971

Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006

Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 1 in G major, BWV1027

Chorale 'Befiehl Du Deine Wege' (from St Matthew Passion)

Chorale arrangement ‘Herzlich tut mich verlagen'

Dowland:

Lachrimae Antiquae

Can she excuse my wrongs? (First Booke of Songes, 1597)

If my complaints could passions move

Isaac:

Amis des que

A fortune contrent

Machaut:

Motet 23 'Inviolata genitrix / Felix virgo / Ad te suspiramus'

Rondeau 14 'Ma fin est mon commencement'


Nobuko Imai (viola), Mie Miki (accordion)

BIS - BISCD1229

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Food, Wine & Song

Food, Wine & Song

Music & Feasting in Renaissance Europe


anon.:

In paupertatis predio

Chançonette / Ainc voir / A la cheminee / Par verité

Apparuerunt apostolis v. Spiritus Domini

Si quis amat

Canto de' cardoni

Canto di donne maestre di far cacio

La plus grant chière

La tricotea

Quem tem farelos

Trinkt und singt

Binchois:

Je ne vis onques

Compère:

Sile fragor

Dufay:

Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys

Encina:

Oy comamos y bebamos

Greiter:

Von Eyren

Halle:

Prenés l'abre / Hé resveille toi Robin

Isaac:

Donna di dentro/ Dammene un pocho

Machaut:

Nes qu'on porroit

Ponce, J:

Ave color vini clari

Senfl:

Von edler Art

Smert:

Nowell, nowell: The boarës head

Zachara da Teramo:

Cacciando per gustar


The Orlando Consort.

"A terrific gastro-tour, winningly sung and beautifully presented with 19 recipes from contemporary sources. Eat your heart out, Jamie Oliver." The Independent on Sunday

GGramophone Magazine

Editor's Choice - January 2002

Harmonia Mundi - HMU907314

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Early Music

Early Music


Body:

Long-ge

Cage:

Totem Ancestor

Quodlibet

Dowland:

Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares

Hardin:

Synchrony No. 2

Hildegard:

O virtus sapientae

Lamb, D:

Långdans efter Byfåns Mats

Machaut:

Kyrie I-III

Partch:

Studies on Ancient Greek Scales

Pärt:

Psalom

Schnittke:

Collected songs where every verse is filled with grief

trad.:

Brudmarsch frå Östa

Uleg-Khem

Tye:

Rachell's weepinge

In nomine Xl Farwell my good one, for ever


Kronos Quartet

Nonesuch - 7559794572

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Trecento

Trecento


anon.:

Trotto

Bologna:

Madrigale - Quando veggio sott'ombra

Ciconia:

Ballata - Merce o morte

La flamma del to amor

Ballata - Dolce Fortuna

Firenze, G:

Donna l'altrui mirar

Florentia, A:

Ballata - La divina giustizia

Ballata - Non isperi mercede

Ballata - Fuggite Gianni Bacco

Machaut:

Virelai

Ballade - Se je me playng

Dame, ne regardes pas

Ballade - De desconfort

Perugia:

Rondeau - Helas! Merci

Virelai

Rondeau - Plus lies des lies


Jill Feldman (soprano) & Kees Boeke (flute)

American-born soprano, Jill Feldman, is a leading artist in the field of medieval, baroque and classical performances. Kees Boeke is Professor of Recorder and Early Music at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen, Germany. Together these artists present a glorious recording of music by de Machault, da Bologna and de Florentina.

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Etcetera - KTC1902

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$17.49

Scheduled for release on 12 January 2009. Order it now and we will deliver it as soon as it is available.

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame

Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame


Diabolus in Musica, Antoine Guerber (direction)

The emblematic work of the gothic period, Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame is where music blossomed into polyphony, just as architecture gained height thanks to the use of the ribbed vault and flying-buttress. A quest for light, as in the cathedral in Reims, where Machaut was canon.

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The Study of Love

The Study of Love

French songs and motets of the 14th century


anon.:

Pour vous servir

Puis que l’aloe ne fine

Jour a jour la vie

Combien que j’aye

Marticius qui fu

Renouveler me feïst

Fist on, dame

Il me convient guerpir

Le ior ‘Faenza codex’

En la maison Dedalus

Combien que j’aye

La grant biauté

En esperant

Ay las! Quant je pans

Machaut:

Motet 11 'Dame, je sui cilz / Fins cuers doulz'

Motet 20 'Trop plus est bele / Biaute paree de valour'

Tres bonne et belle

Se mesdisans

Dame, je vueil endurer

Pycard:

Gloria

Solage:

Le Basile


Gothic Voices, Christopher Page

“A wonderful addition to the catalogue, and the recorded sound … is superlative” Gramophone Magazine

“A simply superb CD … a recording which you might use to snare those as yet unconverted and resistant to the beauties of the Gothic” Fanfare

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Helios - CDH55295

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