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New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewon

Unicum

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The disc puts a triumphant cap on a few years of seriously marvellous issues of 15th-century songs. It comes with a lucid and informative booklet note by Gramophone’s Fabrice Fitch.

Unicum

New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier

Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewon

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The disc puts a triumphant cap on a few years of seriously marvellous issues of 15th-century songs. It comes with a lucid and informative booklet note by Gramophone’s Fabrice Fitch.

About

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.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Ave regina caelorum
Track length2:34
No. 40, Ou beau chastel est prisonnier mon cueur (Arr. for 2 Voices & Vielle)
Track length6:56
No. 23, Au travail suis
Track length4:20
No. 25, Ma maistresse (Arr. for Vielle, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length4:01
No. 32, Par malle bouche la cruelle (Arr. for Voice, Vielle & Viola d'Arco)
Track length4:03
No. 32, Par malle bouche la cruelle (Arr. M. Lewon for Gittern, Vielle & Viola d'Arco)
Track length1:42
No. 31, Donnez l'aumosne, chiere dame (Arr. for 6 Voices, Vielle, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length3:40
No. 30, Tousdis vous voit mon souvenir (Arr. for 2 Voices & Lute)
Track length3:50
No. 44, En atendant vostre venue (Arr. for Voice, Vielle & Viola d'Arco)
Track length3:40
No. 33, Escu d'ennuy seme de plours (Arr. M. Lewon for Voice & Lute)
Track length3:19
No. 49, J'ay des semblans tant que je vueil (Arr. for Voice, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length3:49
No. 34, Si vous voullez que je vous ame (Arr. for Voice, Vielle, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length5:09
No. 20, Comme femme desconfortée
Track length6:11
No. 48, Vraiz amans pour Dieu suppliez (Arr. for 2 Voices & Viola d'Arco)
Track length3:40
No. 19, Cent mille escus quand je voldroie (Arr. for Voice, Renaissance Violin & Lute)
Track length4:36
No. 50, Henri Phlippet le vert me fais porter (Arr. for Voice, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length4:25
No. 42, Est-il merci de quoy (Arr. for Vielle, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length1:51
No. 13, Helas, mon cueur, tu m'occiras (Arr. for 2 Voices & Lute)
Track length2:35
No. 18, Oublie, oublie, oublie, oublie (Arr. for 6 Voices, Vielle, Viola d'Arco & Lute)
Track length4:04

Awards and reviews

  • International Classical Music Awards
    2024
    Nominated - Early Music
  • Gramophone Magazine
    Critics' Choice 2023

August 2023

The disc puts a triumphant cap on a few years of seriously marvellous issues of 15th-century songs. It comes with a lucid and informative booklet note by Gramophone’s Fabrice Fitch.
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