Composer: Antonello da Caserta, Phillipot de Caserta, Francesco Landini, Guillaume de Machaut, Jacob de Senleches, Jehan Vaillant
Performer: Ensemble Alba Musica Kyo
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Channel
Catalogue: CCS7094
Release: 1994
Size: 255 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Machaut: David Hoquetus / double hoquet
Machaut: Ballades
02. No. 19. Amours me fait desirer
03. No. 9. Dame, ne regardes pas
04. No. 42. Dame, de qui toute ma joie from “Le Remède de Fortune”. Rondeaux. Doulz viaire gracieus
05. No. 24. Tres douce dame
06. Landini: Adiu, adiu dous dame yolie
07. anon.: Tres douce compains
08. Senleches: En ce gracieux tamps joli
09. anon.: Orsus vous dormez trop
10. Vaillant: Par maintes foys
11. anon.: La Quinte estampie real
12. Caserta: Beauté parfaite, bonté souveraine
Machaut: Ballades
13. No. 14. Je ne cuit pas
14. No. 35. Gais et jolis
15. Machaut: Rose, liz, printemps, verdure
Machaut and his time: 14th Century Ars Nova Cultural background In Machauts time the ideal of courtly love was very important in aristocratic culture. Virtually all the poetry of the age deals with love and loyalty towards unattainable noble ladies (the lover regards himself as a feudal vassal of his lady). The best-known poet of courtly love is Francesco Petrarca. In 1327 Petrarca, aged 23, was to be found working briefly at the Popes court in Avignon (there were two popes at the time). He was in love with Laura, a woman from a noble family. She died in 1348 of the great plague that had been rampaging throughout Europe since 1347. It had begun on the Cremia peninsula on the Black Sea and had been brought back by the Genoese soldiers who had been fighting the Mongols. It claimed enormous numbers of victims: Paris, for instance, lost a quarter of its population. At the same time the Hundred Years War was taking place between England and France, and crusades were still being organised. Life must have been very insecure in those days: death was always close at hand, whether in the form of war or disease…