Unicum
New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier
Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewon
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 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.
Unicum
New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier
Ensemble Leones, Marc Lewon
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Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
-
Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 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.
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
- Marc Lewon (gittern), Els Janssens-Vanmunster (vocals), Baptiste Romain (renaissance violin), Grace Newcombe (vocals), Tessa Roos (vocals), Jacob Lawrence (vocals), Marc Mauillon (vocals), Raitis Grigalis (vocals), Baptiste Romain (vielle), Elizabeth Rumsey (viola d'arco), Marc Lewon (lute)
- Ensemble Leones
- Marc Lewon
Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone MagazineCritics' 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.