Dufay - Lament for Constantinople & other songs 2019

Dufay - Lament for Constantinople (Orlando Consort)

Жанр: Classical sacred
Страна-производитель диска: Made in England
Год издания диска: 2019
Издатель (лейбл): Hyperion
Номер по каталогу: CDA68236
Дата записи: 2017
Аудиокодек: FLAC
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 01:10:39
Источник: релизер
-источник/ник/другое: basso profundo, подарок; Caterina Sforza - доп. сканы
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Треклист:

01. O tres piteulx / Omnes amici 'Lamentatio sancte matris ecclesie Constantinopolitane'

02. Je vous pri / Ma tres douce amie! / Tant que mon argent dura

03. La dolce vista

04. Je me complains

05. Mon chier amy

06. Malheureulx cueur

07. Ma belle dame, je vous pri

08. Pouray je avoir vostre mercy?

09. Helas, et quant vous veray?

10. Je ne suy plus tel que souloye

11. Je vueil chanter de cuer joyeux

12. Ce moys de may

13. Belle, que vous ay je mesfait?

14. En triumphant de Cruel Dueil

15. Par le regard de vos beaux yeux

16. Vostre bruit et vostre grant fame

17. Le serviteur

18. Puisque vous estez campieur

Исполнители

Guillaume Dufay (c1400-1474)
O tres piteulx / Omnes amici 'Lament for Constantinople'
Je vous pri / Ma tres douce amie! / Tant que mon argent dura
La dolce vista
Je me complains
Mon chier amy
Malheureulx cueur
Ma belle dame, je vous pri
Pouray je avoir vostre mercy?
Helas, et quant vous veray?
Je ne suy plus tel que souloye
Je vueil chanter de cuer joyeux
Ce moys de may
Belle, que vous ay je mesfait?
En triumphant de Cruel Dueil
Par le regard de vos beaux yeux
Vostre bruit et vostre grant fame
Le serviteur
Puisque vous estez campieur
[u]The Orlando Consort[/u]:
Matthew Venner (countertenor)
Mark Dobell & Angus Smith (tenors)
Donald Grieg (baritone)
Recording Date: October 3, 2017 - October 5, 2017
Recording Location: Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
Release Date: May 3, 2019

Review

AllMusic Review by James Manheim [-]
The music of Guillaume Dufay is often said to lie on the boundary between medieval and Renaissance. It is complex in the manner of medieval polyphony, sometimes with multiple texts in different languages, and intricate rhyme schemes. Yet, in its evocative use of vertical sonority and its original texts in the songs, it approaches a manner of text-setting that you can recognize as modern. His chansons are not often recorded, so this release of 18 chansons from the Orlando Consort would be welcome on general principles; it has virtues considerably beyond that. The program, and its gloss in the booklet or online materials, go a long way toward bringing this rather difficult music to life. The Orlando Consort, a quartet of male singers (countertenor, two tenors, and baritone), does well to begin with the so-called Lament for Constantinople, written by Dufay after the fall of the Eastern Empire to the Turks in 1453. He marks this event with two texts, one in French, and one drawn from the Book of Lamentations, and the result here for the listener is to hear the specific meanings in the rather general melancholy texts of these songs. Annotator David Fallows, a veteran in this repertory, contributes excellent notes that similarly go into the meanings of the other chansons on the album: they were all written for specific times and reasons. The Consort sings beautifully, with a bit of passion, not in the ethereal style so often used for Renaissance polyphony. They'd have even more intensity were it not for Hyperion's impersonal church acoustic here. This is an excellent choice for the general listener and for the student of Dufay alike.