Renaissance: Chansons, Madrigaux & Songs de la Renaissance: Songs & Madrigals from the Renaissance
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Renaissance: Chansons, Madrigaux & Songs de la Renaissance: Songs & Madrigals from the Renaissance
Ensemble Clement Janequin, Dominque Visse / The Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier / Huelgas Ensemble / Concerto vocale
[ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 December 2011
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As with the other discs of vocal music in Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series, it's a shame that this one includes no song texts. For the newcomer, at whom such a series is presumably aimed, there's no better anchor than knowing what the performers are singing about. But for that, this disc offers a nearly ideal introduction to the secular song of the second half of the Renaissance. Notes clearly explain and performances pleasingly illustrate the major genres - the Franco-Flemish chanson, the Italian madrigal, and the English madrigal and lute song - and show how they are related. Harmonia Mundi's "Why and How" dialogues give an admirably concise introduction to the external factors that shaped the repertoire: music printing, the musical culture of the Medici house, the revival of ancient Greek and Roman thought.
Tracks:
Faulte d'argent, canonic chanson for 5 voices
Une puce j'ay
Autant en emporte le vent, chanson
Nous sommes de l'ordre de Saint Babouyn
En escoutant le chant melodieux, chanson for 4 voices ("Le chant du rossignol;" "Le rossignol"), M. 2/68
Gentilz veneurs, chanson for 4 voices ("La chasse"), M. 1/4
Tétin refaict plus blanc, chanson for 4 voices ("Du Beau Tétin"), M. 2/66
Du laid tetin
Tant que vivrait en eage florissant, chanson for 4 voices
Il est bel et bon, commere, mon mary (Chansons musicales, Paris 1534)
La prise de Calais
La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire
Anchor che col partire, madrigal
Schiet' arbuscel
Dissimulare etiam sperasti, motet
Allala la pia calia, villanelle for 4 voices, S. x/104
Vezzosi augelli in fra le verdi fronde, madrigal for 4 voices (Madrigali...libro primo a 4 voci)
Crudele acerba inesorabil' morte, madrigal for 5 voices (Il nono libro de madrigali a 5 voci)
Mercè grido piangendo, madrigal for 5 voices (Book 5), W. 5/49
Constant Penelope, madrigal for 5 voices
The noble famous queen (also "While Phoebus used to dwell"), consort song for voice & 4 viols
Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)
Come away come sweet love, for 4 voices & lute (First Book of Songs)
