The Mirror of Narcissus - Secular Songs by Guillaume de Machaut

The Mirror of Narcissus - Secular Songs by Guillaume de Machaut

The Mirror of Narcissus - Secular Songs by Guillaume de Machaut
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Performer: Peter McCrae
Performer: Colin Scott Mason
Composer: Guillaume de Machaut
Conductor: Christopher Page
Performer: Gothic Voices
Performer: Emily Van Evera
Performer: Emma Kirkby
Performer: Andrew King
Performer: Rogers Covey-Crump
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 1993-11-11
Music Label: Hyperion UK
Soundtracks:
  1. Dame de qui toute ma joie vient, ballade for 4 voices
  2. Foy porter, honneur garder, virelai for voice
  3. Dame, je sui cilz/Fins cuers doulz/(tenor), motet for 3 voices
  4. Tuit me penser sont, virelai for voice
  5. Dame, mon cuer en vous, rondeau for 3 voices
  6. Dame, a qui m'ottri, virelai for voice
  7. Biaute qui toutes autres pere, ballade for 3 voices
  8. Je vivroie liement, virelai for voice
  9. Rose, liz, rondeau for 4 voices
  10. Dame, a vous sans retollir, virelai for voice
  11. Amours me fait desirer, ballade for 3 voices
  12. Douce dame jolie, virelai for voice
  13. Felix virgo/Inviolata genitrix/Ad te suspiramus, motet for 4 voices

Music reviews of The Mirror of Narcissus - Secular Songs by Guillaume de Machaut

Music Review: Unmatched Machaut
Rating: 5 Stars

I'd forgotten this disk in a corner of my collection until I heard an concert by another group, Liber UnUsualis. I reviewed their CD "Unrequited" quite enthusiastically, but then I searched for "The Mirror of Narcissus" and listened to the two head-to-head. Results: both good, but "The Mirror" is more intense, more passionate, and more artful in articulating the hockets and other effects of Ars Nova heterophony. If Gothic Voices ever had a reputation of being "academic but dull", that was a bad rap. This performance is fiery.

Description of The Mirror of Narcissus - Secular Songs by Guillaume de Machaut

The second Gothic Voices recording was something of a milestone: the first recording of 14-century music performed by voices alone. The absence of instruments permits very precise tuning (no small matter in this repertory) and doesn't obscure Machaut's poetry (which was admired by no less than Geoffrey Chaucer). Belying its scholarly-but-dull reputation, Gothic Voices sings with plenty of energy and rhythmic snap; the monophonic songs, performed by a single unaccompanied voice, come off particularly well. The best example of this disc's achievement is the famous "Douce dame jolie," which has been done as everything from a catchy little ditty to a fife-and-drum march: Margaret Philpot performs it as what it is--the forlorn plea of a spurned lover. --Matthew Westphal

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