Machaut: Remede de Fortune
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Composer: Guillaume de MachautPerformer: Ensemble Project Ars Nova
Edition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown); German (Published)
CD Release Date: 2009-11-24
Music Label: New Albion Records
Soundtracks:
- Biaute paree de valour
- LAI: Qui n'aroit autre deport
- Liement me deport
- COMPLAINTE: Tels rit
- CHANT ROYAL: Joie, plaisance
- BALADELLE: En amer a douce vie
- Toute Flour
- BALLADE: Dame, de qui toute
- Dande ballade (arr. Kammen/Mealy)
- CHANSON BALLAD E: Dame a vous
- RONDELET: Dame mon cuer en vous remaint
- Rondeau: Rose Liz
Music reviews of Machaut: Remede de Fortune
Music Review: Music for the Ages
Rating: 5 Stars
As a couple of the other reviews already stated, this music comes from one larger poetic work, is secular in style, and shows a great variety in the use of different forms (i.e., Rondeau, Ballade, etc.). It is a highlight among many in the Machaut canon, and demonstrates a great deal of this brilliant Medieval composer's creative range. The fact that he was as much a gifted poet as musician is really amazing, and there are many works by him on other CD's that demonstrate his musical/lyrical talents as well. I've heard that he was also a keen illustrator in his day. There's so much more I could say about this amazing figure, but I will keep things brief for the sake of providing a concise review here. Suffice to say, he is for me, the first major composer after Hildegard von Bingen to create works of such power that one could mention him in the same breath as Josquin, Byrd, Monteverdi, and all the later greats.
The thing I really most want to say about this particular recording, is that the best tracks on it (esp. the Danse Ballade which segue's into the sublime "Dame a vous"), sound as fresh and interesting-and SOULFUL-today as they must have back in the 1300's. Even a listener who might not otherwise have a taste for music of this era, will find in these works (and the wonderful performances that bring them so beautifully to life), a new appreciation for what a truly brilliant and inspired musical mind such as Machaut's could do with those archaic modes and angular rhythms and harmonies-all the way back in the 14th century!
A couple of cuts are particularly long and slow, but very moving if listened to with patience, and of course there are a number of tracks that are immediately accessible, and will charm and seduce the ear from the very first note with their easy grace, and incredibly striking themes. If you've never before bought a CD that features music from before the time of William Byrd and Palestrina, then this would be an awesome place to start.
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Mauchaut: Remede De Fortune by Ensemble Project Ars NovaThis product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
Machaut was not only a composer of liturgical music, but also was equally famous for his secular works. Among these secular pieces is "Remede de Fortune" (Remedy of Fortune)-which became one of the most popular love poems in medieval Europe, securing Machaut's position as the premiere poet musician of 14th century France. The very lengthy work-- 4300 lines, selections of which are performed here--describes a deeply emotional outpouring of feelings of romantic love-of pain, desire, devotion, beauty, hope, and longing--which the speaker/writer never can reveal to the subject of his love. The poetic language is extraordinarily beautiful, and the melodies perfectly reflect the varying moods and lyricism of the words. Ensemble P.A.N. performs these widely varied songs with such skill and feeling that we don't even have to know French to understand the meaning of the texts. --David Vernier
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