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Compact Disc CDA66286

£13.99

Recorded in the Church of St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead, London, on 28, 29 September 1987
Recording Engineer
TONY FAULKNER
Recording Producer
MARTIN COMPTON
Design
TERRY SHANNON
Executive Producer
EDWARD PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMLXXXVIII

Duration: 50'30
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Front illustration: The Nine Heroines from Thomas of Saluzzo's Chevalier Errant

A Song for Francesca

Music in Italy, 1330 - 1430

GOTHIC VOICES

MARGARET PHILPOT contralto, CAROLINE TREVOR alto
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP, JOHN MARK AINSLEY, LEIGH NIXON tenors
with ANDREW LAWRENCE-KING medieval harp

CHRISTOPHER PAGE director / medieval harp

Contents:

  1. Andreas de Florentia Astio non mori mai ballata [2'58]
  2. Andreas de Florentia Per la ver'onesta ballata [3'57]
  3. anonymous Quando i oselli canta madrigal [1'56]
  4. anonymous (Faenza codex) Constantia [2'58]
  5. Johannes de Florentia Quando la stella madrigal [3'10]
  6. anonymous Amor mi fa cantar a la Francesca ballata [3'29]
  7. anonymous (Faenza codex: after Jacopo da Bologna) Non na el so amante [2'35]
  8. Francesco Landini Ochi dolenti mie ballata [2'45]
  9. Francesco Landini Per seguir la speranca ballata [3'30]

    French pieces trom the Italian manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Canonici misc. 213.

  10. anonymous O regina seculi/Reparatrix Maria [2'22]
  11. Guiliaume Dufay Quel fronte signorille in paradiso [2'31]
  12. Richard Loqueville Puisque je suy amoureux rondeau [2'52]
  13. Richard Loqueville Pour mesdisans ne pour leur faulx parler [1'49]
  14. Hugo de Lantins Plaindre m'estuet rondeau [4'27]
  15. Jean Haucourt Je demande ma bienvenue rondeau [1'45]
  16. anonvmous Confort d'amours rondeau [3'43]
  17. Richard Loqueville Qui ne veroit que vos deulx yeulx rondeau [1'08]
  18. Estienne Grossin Va t'ent souspir [1'36]

GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER

'The Hyperion recording is a model of its kind' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

'Another of Gothic Voices' beautifully planned medieval programmes' (The Observer)

'Performances which stimulate the mind and invariably cosset the ear ... these vibrant performances are matched by a fine recording in the Hyperion tradition' (Gramophone)

'Another tresure-trove for those who want to explore the neglected beauties of late medieval music' (American Record Guide)

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