Ensemble Leones & Marc Lewon - Straight from the Heart: The Chansonnier Cordiforme (2016)
Artist: Ensemble Leones & Marc Lewon
Title: Straight from the Heart: The Chansonnier Cordiforme
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 70:20 min
Total Size: 344 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Straight from the Heart: The Chansonnier Cordiforme
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Naxos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log, artwork)
Total Time: 70:20 min
Total Size: 344 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
01. L'autre Jour, Par Ung Matin
02. Helas, N'aray Je Jamais Mieulx
03. Terriblement Suis Fortunee
04. De Tous Beins Plaine Est Ma Maistresse
05. Comme Femme Desconfortee
06. Fortune, Par Ta Cruaulté
07. Adieu Vous Dy L'espoir De Ma Jonesse
08. Le Souvenir
09. Ben Lo Sa Dio Se Sum Vergine E Pura
10. Chiara Fontana De Belli Costumi
11. N'aray Je Jamais Mieulx Que J'ay
12. Dona Gentile He Bella Come L'oro
13. De Tous Biens Playne
14. Pelegrina, O Luce, O Clara Stella
15. Ma Bouche Rit Et Ma Pensee Pleure
16. Ma Bouche Plaint Les Pleurs De Ma Pensee
17. La Gratia De Vos, Donsella
18. Comme Ung Homme Desconforté
19. Perla Mya Cara, O Dolce Amore
The Chansonnier Cordiforme is a songbook, probably copied in 1475 for a roguish but musically cultivated priest named Jean de Montchenu a contemporary chronicler called him 'dissolute and full of all the vices'. The beautiful manuscript containing 43 songs is, uniquely, heart-shaped and covered in velvet. This recording presents both a representative cross-section of the manuscript's repertoire, the majority of which is set to French texts and is among the best known and beautiful of the age, and a portfolio of differing performance options including instruments. In addition to works by such luminaries as Gilles Binchois and Johannes Ockeghem music of elegant melody, textural refinement, and sometimes startling harmonic turns there are ingenious and anonymous parodies of popular songs.
