The Whyte Rose

The Whyte Rose
Poétique anglo-bourguignone au temps de Charles le Téméraire
Ferrara Ensemble - Crawford Young, dir.
Arcana A301

Contents:

    Walter Frye, Trento, Museo Provinciale d'arte, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Ms 88, f. 70v-71
  1. Motet: Salve virgo mater (3 voices)

    2. Anon., Dublin, Trinity College, MS 156, f. 92
  2. Chanson lyrique: My herte ys so plunget yn greffe (voice)

    3. Anon., London, British Library, MS add 5665 (Ritson), 68v-69
  3. Ballade: The hye desire (bowed vihuela, lute)

    4. Walter Frye, New Haven, Yale University, Mellon Chansonier, f. 77-79v
  4. Ballade: Alas alas alas my chief song (2 voices, harp)

    5. Anon., Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS 9085, f. 22-23v with superius by Randall Cook & Crawford Young
  5. La danse de Cleves (bowed vihuela, dulcimer)

    6. Antoine Busnois, Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 517, f. 37v-39
  6. Bergerette: Je ne puis vivre ainsi tousjours (2 voices, bowed vihuela)

    7. Johannes Ockeghem, Dijon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 517, f. 36v-37
  7. Rondeau: Quant de vous seul je pers la veue (voice, harp, bowed vihuela)

    8. Robertus d'Anglia, Oporto, Bibliotheca Publica Municipal, MS 714, f. 76v-78
  8. El mal foco arda quella falsa lingua (2 voices, bowed vihuela)

    9. Anon., Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1393, f. 68v, instr. adapt. by Crawford Young
  9. Ballo de love (rebec, dulcimer, harp, lute)

    10. Antoine Busnois , Bruxelles, Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, MS 5557, f. 83v-84
  10. Motet: Anima liquefacta est / Stirps Jesse (3 voices)

    11. Anon., Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 191, f. 193v
  11. Chanson lyrique: Thus y compleyne my grevous hevynesse (2 voices)

    12. Anon., Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 1393, f. 68 / Trento, Museo Provinciale d'arte, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Ms 87, f. 198v-199
  12. Love wolle I withoute eny variaunce / T'Andernacken al op den Rijn (bowed vihuela, lute)

    13. Anon., London, British Library, MS add 5665 (Ritson), 65v-66
  13. Chanson lyrique: My wofull hert of all gladnesse baryeyne (2 voices, bowed vihuela)

    14. Robert Morton: Copenhague, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS 291 8°, f.26
  14. Rondeau: Le souvenir de vous me tue (3 voices)

    15. Anon., London, British Library, MS add 5665 (Ritson), 72v-73
  15. Ballade: Fayre and discrete fresche wommanly figure (2 voices, lute)

    16. Molinet, Copenhague, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, MS 291 8°, f. 7-9
  16. Rondeau: Tart ara mon cuer sa plaisance (2 voices, bowed vihuela)

    17. Walter Frye, Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 1236 f. 84v-86
  17. Motet: Sospitati dedit egros / Deo gratias / Amen (3 voices)

Playing time: 66' 20"

Performers:
Ferrara Ensemble [Lena Susanne Norin (alto), Kathleen Dineen (soprano, harp), Eric Mentzel (tenor), Stephen Grant (baritone), Karl Heinz Schickhaus (dolce melos), Randall Cook (viola d'arco), Marion Fourquier (harp), Crawford Young (lute)] - Crawford Young, dir.

Recording site and date:
Église S. Germanus de Seewen (Soleure) [01/1997] (Rel.: 1999)

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 462-130 (september 1999)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 77/925-110 (march 2000)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 23/4-385 (march/april 2000)
Goldberg (#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

The present selection is biased more toward the pieces in English and by English composers in the later Burgundian period, but is a strong program nonethess. It also contains 3 illustrative motets.

A few collections which represent the earlier layer of repertory from the present program:

Le Chansonnier Cordiforme
Consort of Musicke - Anthony Rooley
L'Oiseau Lyre (Japan) POCL-3170 (3 CDs)
Le Jardin de Plaisance
Songs from Late Fifteenth-Century French Manuscripts
La Morra - Michal Gondko & Corina Marti
Raum Klang "Schola Cantorum Basiliensis" 2301
The Castle of Fair Welcome
Courtly songs of the later 15th century
Gothic Voices - Christopher Page
Hyperion 66194
La Cour du Roi René
Chansons et Danses
Ensemble Perceval - Guy Robert
Arion 68104
Le Chansonnier Nivelle de la Chaussée
Chansons courtoise du XVe siècle
Ensemble Amadis
Adda 581 316
Armes, Amours
Alla Francesca / Alta
Opus 111 30-221

For various reasons, it has been difficult to select a single "definitive" program to represent the songs of the later 15th century.

A recording devoted to Ockeghem, one of the leading composers of the later 15th century:

Ockeghem: Complete Secular Music
Medieval Ensemble of London - Peter & Timothy Davies
L'Oiseau Lyre 436 194 (2 CDs)

And some related secular recordings whose programs overlap with the later end of the present selection:

Carnetz secretz
Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin
Ambronay 007
L'âge d'or de la musique en Picardie
Les Ménétriers Picards
Calliope 9511
The Art of Flemish Song
In the Courts of Europe
Live Oak
Centaur Records 2109
Vous ou la mort
Canciones flamencas de amor cortés en el siglo XV
Currende Consort / Capella Sancti Michaelis / Concerto Palatino - Erik van Nevel
Cantus 9607
Josquin / Isaac: Music of the Renaissance
Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols - John Dornenburg
Centaur 2548
The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts
Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V
Josquin / De la Rue / Willaert
Capilla Flamenca
Naxos 8.554744
Master of Musicians
Songs and instrumental music by Josquin Des Pres, his pupils and contemporaries
Musica Antiqua of London - Philip Thorby
Signum 025
Early Music of the Netherlands, Volume 1: 1400-1600
Gesualdo Consort / Concerto Palatino / Ensemble Tragicomedia
Emergo Classics 3987

This latter group in particular tends to include sacred settings as well, just as the present program does.

A program devoted to instrumental transcriptions of songs of this era:

Petrucci: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton
Fretwork
Harmonia Mundi USA 907291

A recording devoted to Frye's sacred music by the present ensemble:

Northerne Wynde
Music of Walter Frye
Ferrara Ensemble - Crawford Young
Marc Aurel Edition 20018

Finally, recordings of roughly contemporaneous material by the present ensemble:

Agricola: Chansons
Ferrara Ensemble - Crawford Young
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77038
Hildebrandston
Chansonniers Allemands du XVe siècle
Ferrara Ensemble - Crawford Young
Arcana 35

For a more comprehensive listing, see the Ferrara Ensemble discography.

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Todd M. McComb