Machaut - Songs

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
Adès COF 7078 (3 LPs)

Contents:

    L'Art musical de Guillaume de Machaut

  1. Motet: Felix virgo / Inviolata genitrix (2 voices, krumhorn, shawm, organ, lute, rebec)
  2. Virelay: Comment qu'a moy lointeinne (voice, recorder, 'ud, vielle, percussion)
  3. Chanson: Pour quoy me bat mes maris (voice, rebec, Moorish guitar)
    Motet: Pour quoy me bat mes maris (3 voices, rebec)
  4. Ballade: Honte, paour, doubtance ('ud, lute, rebec, flute)
  5. Motet: Bone pastor Guillerme (2 voices, krumhorn, vielle, organ)
  6. Rondeau: Ma fin est mon commencement (voice, rebec, flute, organ, lute)
  7. Motet: Quant en moy / Amour et biaute (2 voices, rebec, krumhorn, organ)
  8. Hoquet David (krumhorn, vielle, shawm, lute, organ)

    9. François Andrieu:
  9. Ballade: Deploration sur la mort de Machaut (2 voices, vielle, organ, flute, krumhorn, lute)

    10. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Remède de Fortune

  10. Variations (Faenza Codex): De toutes flours (2 lutes, krumhorn, rebec)
  11. Lay: Qui n'aroit autre deport (voice, 'ud, Moorish guitar, vielle, flute, recorder, percussion)
  12. Complainte: Tels rit au main qui au soir pleure (Voice, Moorish guitar, lute, vielle, recorder)
  13. Chanson Royale: Joie, plaisence et douce norriture (vielle, recorder, 'ud, Moorish guitar, percussion)
  14. Ballade: Dame, de qui toute ma joie (voice, 2 lutes, rebec, krumhorn, recorder)

    15. Anon.:
  15. Poème - Estampie (voice, vielle, recorder, Moorish guitar, 'ud, percussion)

    16. Guillaume de Machaut:
  16. Virelay (chanson baladée): Dame, a vous sans retollir (voice, vielle, Moorish guitar, flute, bells)
  17. Balladelle: En amer a douce vie (voice, rebec, Moorish guitar, lute, flute)
  18. Rondelet: Dame mon cuer (voice, krumhorn, vielle, lute, recorder)
  19. Ballade: Sanz cuer / Amis dolens / Dame par vous (3 voices, recorder, vielle, organ, lute)
  20. Virelay: Quant je sui mis au retour (voice, 'ud)

    21. Guillaume de Machaut: Le Veoir Dit

  21. Virelay: Douce dame jolie (lute)
    Text: Lors our alleger (voice)
    Ballade: Ploures dames (voice, rebec, recorder, flute, organ)
  22. Text: Je vous envoie une ballade (voice)
    Virelay: Se medisants (recorder, flute, lute, vielle, percussion)
  23. Ballade: Je ne cui pas (voice, viele, organ, lute, recorder)
  24. Ballade: Nes que on porroit les estoiles nombrer (voice, rebec, organ, krumhorn, Poitou oboe, lute, percussion)
  25. Ballade: Quant Theseus ne quier veoir (2 voices, rebec, lute, organ, shawm, krumhorn)
  26. Lay de bonne esperance (voice, vielle, flute, recorder, lute, Moorish guitar, percussion)
  27. Text / Rondeau: Dix et sept, cinc (voice, rebec, flute, organ, lute, krumhorn)
  28. Text: J'ai veu le rondel (voice)
  29. Virelay: Moult sui de bonne heure nee (voice, vielle, lute, flute)

Performers: Jean Belliard (countertenor, recitant, percussion), Bernard Huneau (flutes, recorders, krumhorns), Elisabeth Robert ('ud, lute, organ), Guy Robert (lute, Moorish guitar, percussion), Julien Skowron (vielles, rebecs), Annie Bartelloni (contralto), Alain Zaepffel (countertenor), Jean-Claude Veilhan (recorders, krumhorns, Poitou oboe, shawms)

Playing time: 2h 18' 43" app.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1975-77]

Re-editions:
CD: It was released in 1991 as a 2-CD Box: Adès 13.294-2, later Adès 203 712, but the order of titles is a little bit different.

Compilation: none

Excerpts:
[10]-[20] Alvarès C 499 Guillaume de Machaut - Le Remède de Fortune [LP]; this LP is the original release.
[1]-[2], [5]-[6], [10]-[18] Adès 14.077-2 Guillaume de Machaut - Motets, Rondeaux Virelays, Le Remède de Fortune [CD]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 223-72 (December 1977)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 3/1-10 (September/October 1979)

Comments:
Information from Fanfare and Diapason Catalogue.

To FAQ references to this recording.

To FAQ CD index page.

Pierre-F. Roberge