Le Champion des Dames

Le Champion des Dames
La Poésie de Martin le Franc et la musique de Dufay et Binchois
Continens Paradisi - Thais Ohara & Marcelo Ohara
Ricercar 228

Contents:

  1. Le Franc: Prologue
  2. Dufay: Bon jour mois, bon an et bonne estraine (2 voices, 3 vielles, percussion)
  3. Le Franc: L'assault de Malebouche
  4. Binchois: Nous vous voyons bien malebouche (2 voices, rebec, 2 vielles, percussion)
  5. Dufay: Donnes l'assault a la fortresse (2 voices, 3 vielles, percussion)
  6. Le Franc: Cristine de Pizan
  7. Binchois: Dueil angoisseus (voice, 2 vielles)
  8. Dufay: J'ay grant dolour (rebec, lute)
    Binchois: Adieu, adieu (voice, lute)
  9. Le Franc: L'Amour selon Brief Conseil
  10. Dufay: Se la face ay pale (shawm, rebec, vielle, lute)
  11. Binchois: Filles a marier (voice, shawm, vielle, rebec, lute)
  12. Le Franc: L'Amour selon Le Champion
  13. Dufay: Ce moys de may (2 voices, rebec, lute, vielle, percussion)
  14. Binchois: Triste plaisir (voice, lute)
  15. Dufay: Estrines moy, je vous estrineray (2 voices, lute, 2 vielles)
  16. Le Franc: Corps de femme
  17. Dufay: Mon cuer me fait tous dis penser (voice, rebec, shawm, lute, vielle)
    Binchois arr. Buxheimer: Je loy mors (rebec, vielle, lute)
  18. Dufay: Quel fronte signorille in paradiso (voice, vielle, lute)
  19. Le Franc: Dufay et Binchois
  20. Dufay: Seigneur Leon (2 voices, rebec, vielle, lute, percussion)

Performers: Witte Weber (soprano), Markus Schikora (tenor), Thais Ohara (vielle, rebec), Marcelo Ohara (vielle, rebec), Norihisa Sugawara (lute, vielle), Rogério Gonçalves (shawm, percussion), Olivier Bettens (poetry recitation)

Playing time: 70'

Recording date: November 2002 (Notre-Dame de Centeilles)

This program is organized around Les Champion des Dames by Martin Le Franc (c.1410-1461), one of the most influential poems of the era. Le Franc argues for the honor of the female gender, part of a debate which raged at that time, and also mentions the famous composers Dufay & Binchois. Binchois in particular set pro-feminine texts, such as the famous Dueil angoisseus of Cristine de Pizan. Les Champion des Dames is fully twenty-four thousand lines, so that only a subset is read for this program.

Note: The liner notes for this recording list 22 tracks, whereas the CD contains 20, as per above.

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 29/1-170 (september/october 2005)

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Todd M. McComb