Unicum - New Songs from the Leuven Chansonnier / Lewon, Ensemble Leones

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
February 24, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anonymous, Barbingant, Alexander Agricola, Gilles de Bins dit Binchois, Antoine Busnois, Firminus Ca
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Leones
    • PERFORMER
      Marc Lewon
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      February 24, 2023
    • UPC
      747313439577
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574395
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Ave regina celorum [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 1]

      Composer: Walter Frye

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Tessa Roos, Jacob Lawrence, Marc Mauillon, Raitis Grigalis

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    2. Ou beau chastel est prisonnier mon cueur [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 40] (arr. for 2 voices and vielle)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Tessa Roos, Marc Mauillon, Baptiste Romain

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    3. Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 23]

      Composer: Barbingant

      Performer: Tessa Roos, Jacob Lawrence, Raitis Grigalis

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    4. Ma maistresse et ma plus qu'aultre amye [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 25] (arr. for vielle, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Performer: Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    5. Par malle bouche la cruelle [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 32] (arr. for voice, vielle and viola d'arco)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Grace Newcombe, Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    6. Par malle bouche la cruelle [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 32] (arr. M. Lewon for gittern, vielle and viola d'arco)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Marc Lewon, Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    7. Donnez l'aumosne, chiere dame [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 31] (arr. for 6 voices, vielle, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Tessa Roos, Grace Newcombe, Marc Mauillon, Jacob Lawrence, Raitis Grigalis, Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    8. Tousdis vous voit mon souvenir [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 30] (arr. for 2 voices and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Marc Mauillon, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    9. En atendant vostre venue [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 44] (arr. for voice, vielle and viola d'arco)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Grace Newcombe, Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    10. Escu d'ennuy, semé de plours [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 33] (arr. M. Lewon for voice and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    11. J'ay des semblans tant que je vueil [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 49] (arr. for voice, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Marc Mauillon, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    12. Si vous voullez que je vous ame [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 34] (arr. for voice, vielle, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Alexander Agricola

      Performer: Tessa Roos, Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    13. Comme femme desconfortée [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 20]

      Composer: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Grace Newcombe, Jacob Lawrence, Marc Lewon, Marc Mauillon, Raitis Grigalis

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    14. Vraiz amans pour Dieu suppliez [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 48] (arr. for 2 voices and viola d'arco)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Tessa Roos, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Rumsey

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    15. Cent mil escuz quant je vouldroye [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 19] (arr. for voice, renaissance violin and lute)

      Composer: Firminus Caron, Antoine Busnois

      Performer: Jacob Lawrence, Baptiste Romain, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    16. Henri Phlippet, le vert me fais porter [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 50] (arr. for voice, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

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

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    17. Est il mercy de quoy l'on sceust finer [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 42] (arr. for vielle, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Antoine Busnois

      Performer: Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    18. Hélas mon cueur, tu m'occiras [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 13] (arr. for 2 voices and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Tessa Roos, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon

    19. Oublie, oublie [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 18] (arr. for 6 voices, vielle, viola d'arco and lute)

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Tessa Roos, Els Janssens-Vanmunster, Grace Newcombe, Jacob Lawrence, Marc Mauillon, Raitis Grigalis, Baptiste Romain, Elizabeth Rumsey, Marc Lewon

      Conductor: Marc Lewon


The discovery in 2015 of a 15th-century parchment chansonnier still in its original binding was made still more startling because it contained twelve previously unknown, anonymous chansons. Most are rondeaus, and they range from the uncomplicated to the refined and elaborate; many bear musical indications that they are the work of the greatest composers of the period. In this recording they have been contextualised with other known songs but in the variant versions found in Leuven. As on their recording of the Chansonnier Cordiforme (on 8.573325), Ensemble Leones employs a range of performance possibilities, from a cappella ensemble to a mixture of instruments and voices.