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Track(s) taken from CDA66087

Amours me fait desirer

composer
Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
3vv; Ballade 19
author of text
Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)

Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (conductor)
Recording details: April 1983
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: September 1987
Total duration: 4 minutes 13 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

The Orlando Consort

Reviews

‘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)
Amours me fait desirer (B19) features a timid lover, whose desire is ignited by Love but who hopes he will be accepted by his lady without having to beg for it. The melody begins with a bold leap of an augmented fourth, the middle of the octave which is reached immediately afterward—a provocative symbol of the intensity of the lover’s feelings.

from notes by Anne Stone & Jacques Boogaart © 2025

Amours me fait desirer (B19) présente un amoureux timide, dont le désir est enflammé par l’Amour, mais qui espère qu’il sera accepté par sa dame sans avoir à le demander. La mélodie commence avec un saut audacieux d’une quarte augmentée, le milieu de l’octave qui est atteint juste après—un symbole provocant de l’intensité des sentiments de l’amoureux.

extrait des notes rédigées par Anne Stone & Jacques Boogaart © 2025
Français: Marie-Stella Pâris

In Amours me fait desirer (B19) geht es um einen schüchternen Liebhaber, dessen Verlangen von der Liebe entfacht wird, und der darauf hofft, dass seine Dame ihn akzeptiert, ohne dass er darum betteln muss. Die Melodie beginnt mit einem kühnen Sprung einer übermäßigen Quarte, der Mitte der Oktave, die unmittelbar danach erreicht wird—ein provokantes Symbol für die Intensität der Gefühle des Liebhabers.

aus dem Begleittext von Anne Stone & Jacques Boogaart © 2025
Deutsch: Viola Scheffel

Other albums featuring this work

Machaut: A lover's death
The Orlando Consort
Studio Master: CDA68430Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available

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