The Art of Courtly Love

The Art of Courtly Love - Chanson d'amour courtois
Guillaume de Machaut and his Age - Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde - The Court of Burgundy
The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir
EMI (His Master's Voice) SLS 863 / 0C 191 05410-2 [LPx3, UK]
EMI (Electrola) 1C 167 05410-2 [LPx3, Germany]
EMI (Voix de son Maître) 2C 167 05410-2 [LPx3, France]
Seraphim SIC 6092 [LPx3, USA]
Seraphim S-6092 [3 Cassettes, USA]

Contents:

    LP-1: Guillaume de Machaut and his Age

    Jehan de Lescurel:
  1. Chanson: A vous douce debonnaire

  2. Guillaume de Machaut:
  3. Motet: Hareu! hareu! le feu - Helas! ou sera pris confors
  4. Ballade: Amours me fait desirer
  5. Motet: Trop plus est belle - Biauté paree - Je ne sui mie certeins

  6. Pierre des Molins:
  7. Rondeau: Ami tout dous vis I
    Rondeau: Ami tous dous vis II

  8. Guillaume de Machaut:
  9. Virelai: Se je souspir
  10. Ballade: Dame se vous m'estés
  11. Virelai: Quant je sui mis
  12. Ballade: Mes esperis se combat
  13. Rondeau: Ma fin est mon commencement


  14. Virelai: Douce dame jolie
  15. Motet: De Bon Espoir - Puis que la douce
  16. Ballade: De toutes flours I
    Ballade: De toutes flours II
  17. Double ballade: Quant Theseus - Ne quier veoir

  18. Anon., 13th c.:
  19. Dance: La Septime estampie Real

  20. Guillaume de Machaut:
  21. Rondeau: Quant j'ay l'espart
  22. Ballade: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent

  23. François Andrieu:
  24. Double ballade: Armes, amours - O flour des flours
  25. LP-2: Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde

    Grimace:
  26. Virelai: A l'arme, a l'arme

  27. Franciscus:
  28. Ballade: Phiton, phiton

  29. Borlet:
  30. Virelai: Hé, trés doulz roussignol
    Borlet (attr.):
    Virelai: Ma tredol rosignol

  31. Solage
  32. Rondeau: Fumeux fume

  33. Johannes de Meruco:
  34. Ballade: De home vray

  35. Anon., 14th c.:
  36. Dance: Istampitta Tre fontane

  37. Jehan Vaillant:
  38. Rondeau: Trés doulz amis - Ma dame - Cent mille fois


  39. Pykini:
  40. Virelai: Plasanche or tost

  41. Anthonello de Caserta:
  42. Ballade: Amour m'a le cuer mis

  43. Anon., 14th c.:
  44. Motet: Tribum quem

  45. Solage:
  46. Ballade: Helas! je voy mon cuer

  47. Anon., 14th c.:
  48. Virelai: Contre le temps

  49. Matheus de Perusio:
  50. Canon: Andray soulet
  51. Ballade: Le greygnour bien

  52. Johannes Simon Hasprois:
  53. Ballade: Ma douce amour

  54. Anon., 14th c.:
  55. Virelai: Restoés, restoés
  56. LP-3: The Court of Burgundy

    Guillaume Dufay:
  57. Rondeau: Ce moys de may
  58. Ballade: La belle se siet

  59. Gilles Binchois:
  60. Rondeau: Je ne fai toujours
  61. Chanson: Files a marier
  62. Rondeau: Amoreux suy et me vient toute joye
  63. Ballade: Je loe Amours et ma dame mercye

  64. Guillaume Dufay:
  65. Rondeau: Navré je suis d'un dart penetratif
  66. Motet: Lamentatio Sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constatinopolitanae (O trés piteulx - Omnes amici)

  67. Anon., 13th c.:
  68. Dance: Basse danse I La Spagna


  69. Guillaume Dufay
  70. Rondeau: Par droit je puis complaindre
  71. Rondeau: Donnés l'assault

  72. Gilles Binchois
  73. Rondeau: Vostre trés doulx regart

  74. Guillaume Dufay:
  75. Virelai: Hélas mon dueil

  76. Gilles Binchois
  77. Rondeau: Bien puist

  78. Guillaume Dufay:
  79. Stropha: Vergine bella

  80. Anon:
  81. Dance: Basse danse II La Spagna

Performers:
The Early Music Consort of London
James Bowman (counter-tenor), Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Geoffrey Shaw (baritone), Michael Laird (cornet), Iaan Wilson (cornet), Alan Lumsden (cornet, sackbut, recorder, slide trumpet), Roger Brenner (sackbut), David Munrow (recorder, crumhorn, shawm, kortholt, bagpipes), Oliver Brookes (recorder, crumhorn, viol, rebec, crwth), James Tyler (crumhorn, viol, lute, citole), Eleanor Sloan (fidle, rebec, harp), Christopher Hogwood (harp, organ), David Corkhill (percussion)
David Munrow, dir.

Recording site and date:
Abbey Road Studios, London, UK [12/1972 & 01/1973];
Rel.: 1973

Playing time: 151' 38" app.

Compilation:
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 61284 22 [CDx2] An additional track (tracks #6 of CD-1: Se ma dame m'a guerpy) was not included in the original LP set; this is why the LP release contains 50 tracks, the CD releae 51.

Excerpts:
[1]-[4] Virgin Classics 0946 356902 2 4 [CD] Music from the time of the Crusades (1096 - 1270)
[1]-[18] EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD-3454 [LP]- Guillaume de Machaut and his Age (Also released EMI (Voix de son Maître) VSM-3454 (aka Chanson d'amour courtois de Guillaume de Machaut à Guillaume Dufay))
[19]-[34] EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD-3621 [LP] Late Fourteenth Century Avant Garde
[35]-[50] EMI (His Master's Voice) ASD-3643 [LP] The Court of Burgundy
[11], [24], [35], [42] EMI (His Master's Voice) SLS-5136 [LP] The Art of David Munrow
[35] EMI Classics 0946 3 61524 2 4 [CD] Music of the Renaissance: The Da Vinci Collection

Reviewed in:
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 51/607-1238

Comments:
Information from three-LPs album and Yvonne Cairns (for comments on additional track).
The CD edition is numbered as a set as 7243 5 61284 2 2, but individual CD are numbered 7243 5 61285 2 2 and 7243 5 61286 2 2.

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Pierre-F. Roberge