MACHAUT G. CHANSONS / Z.Matoušková, L.Moravec / Ars Cameralis / L.Matoušek

Guillaume de MACHAUT "le noble rethorique" (ca. 1300-1377): Chansons / Songs

1. Moult sui de bonne heure nee (virelai)- ms, cem 3:35

2. Se je souspir (virelai) - ten3, fid 2:40

3. Amours me fait desirer (ballade) - ms, reb, har 3:14

4. Ay mi! dame de valour (virelai) - ms 2:13

5. Tant doucement - Eins que ma - (Ruina) (motet) - ms, ct, var2 1:38

6. Mes esperis se combat (ballade) - ms, var1, dou 4:15

7. Hoquetus "David" - var1, fid, har 1:51

8. Mors sui, se je ne vous (virelai) - ten1, dou 2:26

9. On ne porroit penser (ballade) - ms, var2, fid 2:42

10. De triste cuer - Quant vrais - Certes (ballade) - ten1, ten2, ten3 3:53

11. Honte, paour (ballade) - ms, dou, fid 4:03

12. Hont paur (Codex I-Faenza 117) (ballade) - cem, har 2:17

13. Nes que on porroit (ballade)- ms, dou, var1 4:29

14. Ploures dames (ballade) - ms, var1, fid 4:52

15. S'il estoit - S'Amours - (Et gaudebit) (motet) - ms, ct, fid 1:25

16. Dame, mon cuer emportes (virelai) - ten1, fid 2:54

17. Dame, mon cuer en vous (rondelet) - ms, fl, reb 2:56

18. Gais et jolis (ballade) - ct, har, cit 1:19

19. Tant doulcement me sens - (rondeau) - ms, tra, fid, var1 3:01

20. Plus dure que un dyamant (virelai) - ct, mic 1:39

21. De petit po (ballade) - ct, var2, dou, fid 3:11

22. De petit peu (Codex CS-Pu XI.E.9) (ballade) - var2, fid 1:03

23. En amer ma douce vie (ballade) - ms, fl, var1, fid 3:57

24. Lasse! comment - Se j'aim mon - Pour quoy (motet) - ct, ten2, ten3 2:11

F. ANDRIEU - Eustach DESCHAMPES:

25. Armes, amours - O flour des flours - ms, ct, dou, fid 4:41

Total time: 73:25

Ars cameralis

Zuzana Matoušková - (ms) mezzosoprano

Hanuš Bartoň - (var1) portative organ, (cem) small harpsichord

Milan Langer - (var2) portative organ

Lukáš Matoušek - (fl) recorders, (dou) dousainnes, (har) gothic harp, (mic) micanon

Jiří Richter - (fid) fiddle, (reb) rebec, (cit) citole

and guests:

Lubomír Moravec - (ct) counter tenor, (ten1) tenor

Matouš Vlčinský - (ten2) tenor

Stanislav Předota - (ten3) tenor

Jana Semerádová - (tra) flute

The French composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut is indisputably one of the most prominent figures of the 14th-century music. In his numerous poetical and musical works we can recognize an ultimately cultured, educated artist, endowed with refined sense of noble beauty. In his personality, which is a fascinating combination of the culturally and politically influential ecclesiastical elite and a vanishing world of medieval chivalry, embodying the conquest trips across Europe, heroic deeds, but also the warm tones of the love songs intended for noble and beautiful ladies.

(Studio Matouš)