Straight from the Heart: The Chansonnier Cordiforme

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
October 14, 2016
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Leones
    • PERFORMER
      Lewon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 14, 2016
    • UPC
      747313332571
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8573325
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. L'autre jour par ung matin [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 16]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Mathias Spoerry, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon, Baptiste Romain

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    2. Helas, n'aray je jamais mieulx [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 40]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    3. Terriblement suis fortunee [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 38]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Elizabeth Rumsey, Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    4. De tous biens plaine est ma maistresse [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 19]

      Composer: Hayne van Ghizeghem

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Mathias Spoerry

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    5. Comme femme desconfortée [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 29]

      Composer: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    6. Fortune, par ta cruaulté [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 27]

      Composer: Vincenet du Bruecquet

      Performer: Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon, Baptiste Romain

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    7. Adieu vous dy l'espoir de ma jonesse [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 37]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Raitis Grigalis, Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    8. Le souvenir [Segovia Codex, Toledo, c. 1501-1503]

      Composer: Johannes Tinctoris

      Performer: Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    9. Ben lo sa Dio se sum vergine e pura [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 2]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Mathias Spoerry, Baptiste Romain

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    10. Chiara fontana de belli costumi [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 5]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Mathias Spoerry

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    11. N'aray je jamais mieulx que j'ay [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 25]

      Composer: Robert Morton

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Elizabeth Rumsey, Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    12. Dona gentile he bella come l'oro [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 3]

      Composer: Guillaume Dufay

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Elizabeth Rumsey

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    13. De tous biens playne [Segovia Codex, Toledo, c. 1501-1503]

      Composer: Johannes Tinctoris

      Performer: Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    14. O pelegrina, o luce, o clara stella [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 6]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Mathias Spoerry

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    15. Ma bouche rit et ma pensee pleure [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 31]

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Raitis Grigalis, Mathias Spoerry, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon, Baptiste Romain

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    16. Ma bouche plaint les pleurs de ma pensee [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 33]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Elizabeth Rumsey, Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    17. La gratia de vos, donsella [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 8]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    18. Comme ung homme desconforté [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 14]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    19. Perla mya cara, o dolce amore [Chansonnier Cordiforme, Geneva, c. 1475, CORD 9]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon


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 marnuscript 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.

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REVIEW:

The performers sensibly take a pragmatic approach to the heated debate as to precisely how these pieces were performed and use a mixture of voices and instruments, with occasional a cappella renditions. I loved these accounts, which are both musically expressive and eloquent in an unhurried way. Binningen provides just the right resonance for full enjoyment of this lovely music.

– Early Music Review (D. James Ross)