Alla Francesca: Beauté parfaite - L'Automne du Moyen Age

Beauté parfaite - L'Automne du Moyen Age

Chansons des XIVe et XVe siècles

Alla Francesca

Opus 111 30-173, October 1996 (Ribeauvillé)

This program highlights a division of Renaissance from Medieval different from that nominally used. Here the medieval era is allowed to continue through the middle of the 15th century, incorporating cadences on thirds, and awaiting the Humanist concerns toward text-setting for the full Renaissance style. While such divisions are really only points of trivia, it can be interesting to remark on what the motivations are for the various era markers. The present choice still receives a good deal of support, although composers like Dufay are now often claimed as Renaissance figures.

Therefore, this program begins with a few famous tracks from the major French Ars Subtilior repertory of c.1390, moving on to some transcriptions of Ars Nova pieces into more modern style, and then the majority of the program in the fully mature court style of the 1420s and beyond.

Anthonello de Caserta: Beauté parfaite (ballade; recorder, harp, lute, vihuela d'arco)
Anon: Pour vous servir (rondeau; 3 voices)
Jean Vaillant: Par maintes fois (virelai; 2 recorders, harp)
Solage: Fumeux fume (ballade; 3 voices)
Raulin de Vaux: Savés pour quoy suy sy gay (rondeau; 3 voices, lute)
Johannes Legrant: Entre vous, nouviaux mariés (ballade; 3 voices, recorder, vihuela d'arco, lute)
Mahieu Paullet: J'aim. Qui? Vous. Moy? (ballade; 3 voices)
Anon - Codex Faenza: Or sus, vous dormes trop (diminution; recorder, harp, citole)
Anon - Cyprus: Tousjours servir je veuil (rondeau; recorder, vielle, harp, lute)
Gautier Libert: Se je me plains (rondeau; 2 voices, cittern, harp, lute)
Pierre Fontaine: Pastourelle en un vergier (ballade; 2 voices, recorder, vielle, lute)
Anon: Tant qu'en mon cuer / Sur l'erbette (rondeau; voice, pipe & tabor, vielle, harp, lute)
Anon: Or sus mon coeur (virelai; 2 bagpipes)
Anon: Cheulz qui volent retourner (ballade; 3 voices)
Anon: La belle et la gente rose (virelai; 3 recorders)
Anon: Quant la doulce jouvencelle (rondeau; voice, vihuela d'arco, harp, citole)
Binchois: Adieu, jusques je vous revoye (rondeau; 2 voices, vielle)
Nicolas Grenon: La plus belle (rondeau; 3 recorders)
Dufay: J'ai mis mon cuer (strophic chanson; 3 voices)
Binchois: Ay, douloureux (rondeau; 3 voices, 2 vielles)
Anon: instrumental (recorder, harp)
Dufay: Je vous pri; Ma tres douce amie; Tant que mon argent dura (cantio triplex; 4 voices)

Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, vielle, vihuela d'arco, cittern)
Raphaël Boulay (voice)
Pierre Hamon (recorders, bagpipes, pipe & tabor)
Marco Horvat (voice, lute, citole, vielle)
Florence Jacquemart (recorders, bagpipes)
Dominique Jullien (recorders)
Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp)