Josquin Desprez - Adieu Mes Amours. Chansons (1988)

[01] Douleur me bat - 5 voix (Hc, T, T, Ba, B) et violes          2'54
[02] Adieu mes amours - 4 violes                                  2'03
[03] Plusieurs regretz - 2 voix (Hc, Ba) et violes                2'32
[04] Petite camusette - 3 voix (Hc, T, Ba) et 3 violes            1'07
[05] Mille regretz - 4 voix (Hc, T, Ba, B) et luth                1'59
[06] Mille regretz - luth solo                                    2'31
[07] En non saichant - 5 voix (Hc, T, Ba, Ba, B)                  2'23
[08] J'ay bien cause de lamenter - 3 voix (Hc, T, B) et luth      1'24
[09] Nimphes, nappés - tutti: 6 voix, violes, luth                2'36
[10] Ile fantazies - violes                                       1'59
[11] La plus des plus - violes                                    1'20
[12] Plus n'estes ma maistresse - 4 voix (Hc, T, Ba, B) et luth   2'21
[13] Cueurs désolez - cantus (Hc) et violes                       1'41
[14] Plaine de dueil - 5 voix (Hc, T, T, Ba, B) et violes         2'03
[15] Fortuna desperata (Busnois/Josquin) - violes                 1'39
[16] Faulte d'argent - 5 voix (Hc, T, T, Ba, B) et luth           2'05
[17] Cueur langoreulx - 2 voix (Hc, T) et violes                  1'59
[18] Fors seulement - luth                                        1'53
[19] Je me complains - 5 voix (Hc, T, T, Ba, B) et violes         1'44
[20] Si congié prens - 2 voix (T, Ba) et violes                   2'51
[21] Tenez moy en vos bras - tutti                                1'50
[22] EI grillo - 4 voix (Hc, T, Ba, B) et luth                    1'33
[23] Si j'ay perdu mon amy - violes                               2'22
[24] Parfons regretz - 5 voix (Hc, T, T, Ba, B)                   2'33
[25] Vous l'arez s'il vous plaist - 3 voix (Hc, T, Ba) et violes  1'49
[26] Allégez moy - 6 voix (tutti) et luth                         1'05
[27] Déploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem                 5'54
(Nymphes des bois) - 5 voix (Hc, T, Ba, Ba, B)

DURÉE TOTALE                                                     59'54


Ensemble Clément Janequin:

dir. Dominique Visse, haute-contre
Bruno Boterf, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, ténors
Philippe Cantor, Josep Cabré, barytons
Antoine Sicot, basse
Claude Debóves, luth

Ensemble Les Eléments:

Ariane Maurette, Nanneke Schaap, René Stock, Erin Headley, violes

Although I have quite a few Josquin CDs, this one is rather unusual among them: where most look 'back' and see Josquin in the context of his medieval predecessors, this CD looks 'forward' and sees Josquin as predecessor of the madrigalists. Songs are accompanied by a consort of viols or a lute (or both), creating a sound-world that matches the Italian madrigals of a generation (or two) later, or that of Dowland and the English lute/consort songs. And it is quite an eye-opener, because it really works, and thus reminds us that Josquin was in some respects transitional, too.

I would, though, recommend the Hilliards' disc of songs and religious pieces as a still better introduction to Josquin, and for their livelier performances of several of the chansons too. (And, as a minor complaint, I personally would have preferred vocal versions of some of Josquin's best songs which are only offered in lute/viol transcriptions here - Fortuna desperata, Fors seulement for instance.) ---D. Wyatt, amazon.com

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