Machaut: Chansons
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Composer: Guillaume de MachautEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-13
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
- Tant doucement me sens emprisonnés, rondeau for 4 voices
- Comment puet on mieus, rondeau for 3 voices
- De Fortune me doy pleindre, ballade for 3 (or 4) voices
- Mors sui se je ne vous voy, virelai for 2 voices
- Se quanque amours, ballade for 4 voices
- Je ne cuit pas qu'onques, ballade for 2 voices
- Liement me deport par samblant, virelai for voice
- Je puis trop bien ma dame comparer, ballade for 3 voices
- Certes mon oueil, rondeau for 3 voices
- En amer a douce vie, ballade for 4 voices
- He, dame de valour que j'aim, virelai for voice
- Une vipere en cuer, ballade for 2 voices
- Ma fin est mon commencement, rondeau for 3 voices
- De toutes flours, ballade for 3 voices
Music reviews of Machaut: Chansons
Music Review: Even the Great Have Bad Ear Days
Rating: 3 Stars
This is a re-release with different title of the Orlando Consort's "In a Pleasure Garden" CD of Machaut.
The Orlando Consort is Number One in my books - the very best vocal consort recording Renaissance and Medieval music today. Their CDs of John Dunstaple and Antoine Busnois set the gold standard for performance of polyphony. Thus I was quite excited when this recording was reissued. But the disappointment has been proportionate to the expectations.
A fatally flawed performance decision ruins this CD. These ballades, virelais, and rondos - not all merely chansons in a formal sense - are settings by Guillaume de Machaut of his own poetry. Machaut carefully "archived" his own works in a meticulous manuscript, for which reason we have more of his music than of any other 14th C composer. If any composer's 'intentions' should be respected, it is Machaut. Unfortunately, the Orlandos have chosen to sing the text only on one line of the three or four intertwining polyphonic parts. The other lines are vocalized on vowels. Even when sung in excellent tuning by beautiful voices, the result is a lot of hooting and swooping, totally without the rhythmic crunches of consonants that make Machaut lively. I'd be willing to take up a subscription to send the Orlandos back to the recording studio to do it right!
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