Songs of Dufay et al.

Sweet love, sweet hope
Music from a 15th-century Bodleian manuscript
Hilliard Ensemble
Isis Records 030
Carbon 7 C 7048

Contents:

  1. Dufay: J'atendray tant qu'il vous playra
  2. Dufay: Quel fronte signorille in paradiso
  3. Dufay: Ce moys de may soyons lies et joyeux
  4. Dufay: Je me complains piteusement
  5. Dufay: Ma belle dame souveraine
  6. Johannes Rezon: Il est temps que je me retraye
  7. Anon: Douce speranche my conforte tous jours
  8. Johannes Hasprois (fl.1378-1428): Ma doulce amour, je me doy bien complaindre
  9. Anon: Or sus, mon cuer, vers ma dame t'encline
  10. Bartolomeus Brollo (fl.c.1430-50): Nulx ne pourroit ymaginer
  11. Paullet: J'aim. Qui?
  12. Guillaume Malbecque (c.1400-1465): Adieu vous di, mes seigneurs et amis
  13. Malbecque: Quant de la belle me parti
  14. Malbecque: Dieu vous doinst bon jour
  15. Prepositus Brixiensis (fl.1411-1425): O spirito gentil, tu m'ay percosso
  16. Dufay: Navré je suis d'un dart penetratif
  17. Dufay: Entre vous, gentils amoureux
  18. Dufay: Belle, veuilles moy retenir
  19. Dufay: Je veux chanter de cuer joyeux
  20. Dufay: Ce jour de l'an voudray joye mener
  21. Dufay: Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir

Performers: David James, Rogers Covey-Crump, John Potter, Gordon Jones

Playing time: 71'

Recording date: 1996

Excerpts:
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The present recording is part of a series on Isis Records devoted to the manuscripts of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The present manuscript is known as MS. Canon. Misc. 213, containing 245 pieces not found anywhere else, especially early 15th century French songs. It contains 235 French chansons amongst its 326 entries. Completed sometime before 1436 and after c.1425, the manuscript gives a unique look at Dufay's earliest songs, plus those of his contemporaries.

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Todd M. McComb