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Compact Disc CDA66087

£13.99

Recorded on 7, 8 April 1983
Recording Engineer
ANTONY HOWELL
Recording Producer
MARTIN COMPTON
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producer
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXVII

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The front illustration is taken from the Roman de la rose, Narcissus has been out bunting (his horse waits at the left). He pauses to drink from the pool. On the right is Echo who prays to God that Narcissus may be forever unhappy in love because he has refused her. The prayer is answered; Narcissus looks into the pool and falls in love with his own reflection.

The Mirror of Narcissus

SONGS BY GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT (1300-1377)

GOTHIC VOICES

EMILY VAN EVERA soprano, MARGARET PHILPOT contralto
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP, ANDREW KING tenors
COLIN SCOTT MASON, PETER McCRAE baritones
with EMMA KIRKBY soprano

CHRISTOPHER PAGE director

Contents:

  1. Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient ballade from the Remede de Fortune [5'24]
  2. Foy porter virelai [3'13]
  3. Dame, je sui cilz/Fins cuers doulz motet [2'54]
  4. Tuit mi penser virelai [3'01]
  5. Dame, mon cuer en vous remaint rondelet from the Remede de Fortune [4'22]
  6. Dame, a qui virelai [5'38]
  7. Biaute qui toutes autres pere ballade [4'46]
  8. Je vivroie liement virelai [2'17]
  9. Rose, liz, printemps, verdure rondeau [4'31]
  10. Dame, a vous sans retollir virelai from the Remede de Fortune [2'51]
  11. Amours me fait desirer ballade [4'07]
  12. Douce dame jolie virelai [2'45]
  13. Inviolata genitrix/Felix virgo/Ad te suspiramus motet [3'41]

GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE

‘This is an exceptionally fine and important record. It makes Machaut’s music sound more consistently pleasing and acceptable to a wider public than any to date’ (Gramophone)

‘Superb’ (BBC Record Review)

'Une version exceptionelle de beauté' (Harmonie, France)

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