Unicum - New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

Ensemble Leones, Lewon, Marc

8.574395

The discovery in 2015 of a 15th-century parchment chansonnier still in its original binding was made still more startling because it contained twelve previously unknown, anonymous chansons. Most are rondeaus, and they range from the uncomplicated to the refined and elaborate; many bear musical indications that they are the work of the greatest composers of the period. In this recording they have been contextualised with other known songs but in the variant versions found in Leuven. As on their recording of the Chansonnier Cordiforme (on 8.573325), Ensemble Leones employs a range of performance possibilities, from a cappella ensemble to a mixture of instruments and voices.

Works:

• Walter Frye: Ave regina celorum
•Barbingant: Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient
•Johannes Ockeghem: Ma maistresse et ma plus qu'aultre amye
•Alexander Agricola (?): Si vous voullez que je vous ame
•Gilles Binchois: Comme femme desconfortee
•Firminus Caron oder Antoine Busnoys: Cent mil escuz quant je voulroye
•Antoine Busnois: Est il mercy de quoy l'on sceust finer
•Anonymus: Ou beau chastel est prisonnier mon cueur; Par malle Bouche la cruelle (2 Versionen); Donnez l'aumosne, chiere dame; Tousdis vous voit mon souvenir; En atendant vostre venue; Escu d'ennuy, seme de plours; J'ay des semblans tant que je vueil; Vrauz amans pour Dieu suppliez; Henri Phlippet, le vert me fais porter; Helas mon cueur, tu m'occiras; Oublie, oublie

CD x 1

Naxos

07.02.23

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