D'amours loial servant

D'amours loial servant
Chansons d'amour françaises et italiennes des XIVe et XVe siècles - French and Italian love songs of the 14th and 15th centuries - Französiche und italienische Liebeslieder des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts
Gérard Lesne & Alla Francesca
Virgin "Veritas" 7243 5 45 357 2 7

Contents:

    Anon., diminution from Codex Faenza on anonymous ballad "A discort sont Desir et Esperance", Faenza Bibl. Comunale MS 117
  1. Indescort (recorder, vihuela, harp)

    2. Anon., virelai-motet (? Borlet, end of 14th c.)
  2. Ma tredol rosignol joly / Aluette / Rosignolin (3 voices, cittern)

    3. Anon.
  3. L'amoureuse flour d'esté / En l'estat d'amere tristour / [Sicut fenum arui] (motet; 3 voices)
  4. Se vrai secours briefvement ne m'eslye (ballade; voice, recorder, vihuela, harp)
  5. Puisque je sui d'amours loial servant (rondeau; voice, vihuela, recorder, tambourine)
  6. J'ay grant desespoir de ma vie (cornemuse)

    7. Jacob de Senleches
  7. La harpe de melodie (virelai; 3 voices)

    8. Pierre des Molins
  8. De ce que foul pensé souvent remaynt (ballade; voice, harp, vihuela)

    9. Anon.
  9. J'aime la biauté (pipe & tabor, psaltery, vihuela)

    10. Anthonello de Caserta
  10. Amours m'a le cuer mis en tel martire (ballade; voice, recorder, vihuela, harp)

    11. Anon.
  11. Que puet faire un cuer dolent / Ce ne est mie merveilles (virelai; 3 voices, pipe & tabor, cittern)

    12. Francesco Landini
  12. Giovine vagha (ballate; double pipe)

    13. Guillaume de Machaut
  13. Qui es promesses / Ha! Fortune / [Et non est qui adjuvet] (motet; 3 voices)

    14. Baude Cordier
  14. Se cuer d'amant par soy humilier (rondeau; 2 voices, recorder, vihuela, harp)

    15. Anon., Codex Faenza after Machaut
  15. Honte, paour (recorder, rebec)

    16. Francesco Landini
  16. Amor c'al tuo sugetto (ballata; voice, recorder, vihuela)

    17. Johannes Ciconia / countertenor by Matteo da Perugia
  17. Ligiadra donna (ballata; 2 voices, harp)

    18. Johannes Ciconia
  18. Doctorum principem / Melodia suavissima / [Vir mitis] (motet; 3 voices)

    19. Francesco Landini
  19. Questa fanciull'amor (3 voices, vihuela, recorder, tambourine)

Playing time: 65' 11"

Performers:
Gérard Lesne (voice) & Alla Francesca [Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp, psaltery, tambourine), Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, vihuela d'arco, vihuela da mano, cittern, rebec), Pierre Hamon (recorders, pipe & tabor, double pipe, bagpipe)]

Recording site and date:
Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud [02/1999]

Excerpts:
[1], [3]-[4] Virgin Classics 0946 356902 2 4 [CD] Music from the time of the Crusades (1096 - 1270).

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 463-121 (October 1999)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 78/923-98 (january 2000)
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
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Pierre-F. Roberge