Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dufay: Le Prince d'amours (2021)

In the courts of the 15th century, music was a constant companion. The chanson was a daily pleasure, a vehicle for poetry and passion, a remedy for pain and sublimated the richness of amorous relationships. The chanson was perhaps the musical form in which Dufay, despite being a man of the Church, best expressed his immense talent. He was seen as an absolute master among his peers, owing to the perfection of his writing and it's intense expressiveness, and he enriched the history of music with a masterly oeuvre that went far beyond the stylistic boundaries of the time. His 80 chansons show great diversity and allow us to appreciate the constant evolution of the aesthetic of the genre. The Ensemble Gilles Binchois present a program of 2 selections in which courtly love finds it's most beautiful expression and refinement.
Tracklist
01. Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir
02. Dona gentile, bella come l'oro
03. Belle, que vous ay je mesfait
04. Les douleurs dont me prends tel somme
05. L'alta belleza
06. Je ne suy plus tel que souloye
07. Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye
08. He compaignons, resvelons
09. Ce moy de may soyons lies et joyeux
10. Estrinez moy, je vous estrineray
11. Ce jour le doibt, aussi fait la saison
12. Ne je ne dors, ne je ne veille
13. Resvelons nous, resvelons amoureux / Alons ent bien tos au may
14. Pour l'amour de ma doulce amye
15. Mille bonjours je vous presente
16. En triumphant de Cruel Dueil
17. Adyeu, quitte le demeurant
18. Je me complains piteusement
19. Franc cuer gentil
20. Mon chier amy, qu'avés vous empensé