Gilles de Bins dit Binchois: Joye, Les plaints de Gilles de Bins dit Binchois [† 1460]

Muzyka Dawna
premiera polska: 2007-05-02
kontynent: Europa
kraj: Belgia
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
opis:
Editor's info:
A program devoted entirely to Gilles Binchois (c.1400-1460) is certainly welcome, and long-awaited. It would be nice to have a program devoted to Binchois' fairly extensive sacred output as well.

Gilles de Bins, known as Binchois, was born in Mons south of Brussels to a family of privileged background. He was in France early in his career, and then took up the leading position at the court of Burgundy. At the time, this was the most eminent court in Europe, and Binchois' position gave him pride of place. Indeed, his songs from the 1420s-40s survive more widely and in greater number than those of Dufay from that period. Many anonymous songs of the period are also thought to be by Binchois.

Binchois' songs are highly elegant and refined, eschewing much of the more outgoing quality which characterizes Dufay. They are overwhelmingly in three parts, with the upper part given prominence. In addition, Binchois makes use of many passing dissonances in ways his contemporaries rarely did.

Binchois set songs of many of the leading figures of the time, including Christine de Pizan (track #15), Charles d'Orleans, and Alain Chartier (tracks #1, 4, 16). The centrality of Binchois' output has long been overlooked in popular surveys, although it has been acknowledged in musicological surveys. Beyond this, the sheer quality and stunning beauty of his songs makes them an incomparable body of music.

muzycy:
Patrizia Hardt
Silvie Moors
Yves Van Handenhove
Paul De Troyer
Lieven Gouwy
Bart Meynckens
Björn Schmelzer (voices)
Thomas Baeté (fiddle)
Liam Fennelly (fiddle)
William Taylor (harp)
Jan Van Outryve (lute)

utwory:
1. Adieu mes tres belles amours
2. Amoureux suy
3. Je ne pouroye estre joyeux
4. Se la belle n'a voloir
5. Qui veut mesdire
6. Mon seul et souverain désir
7. Les tres doulx yeux
8. Adieu, jusque je vous revoye
9. Tant plus ayme
10. Esclave puist yl devenir
11. Adieu mon amoureuse joye
12. Ockeghem: Déploration sur la mort de Binchois

total time - 74'
wydano: 2007
nagrano: October 1996 and May 1997(Belgium)
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