Unrequited [Single]

Liber unUsualis (Artist), Franciscus Andrieu (Composer), Guillaume de Machaut (Composer), Pierre des Molins (Composer), n/a (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: n/a
• Composer: Franciscus Andrieu, Guillaume de Machaut, Pierre des Molins
• Audio CD (June 12, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: LU
• ASIN: B00027P9OI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #236,534 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Felix virgo, mater Christi / Inviolata gentrix / Ad te suspiramis gemetes et flentes

2. Trop plus est bele que biauté / Biauteé parée de valour / Je ne sui mie certeins d'avoir amie

3. J'aim miex languir en ma dure dolour

4. Dame, ne regardes pas

5. Quant en moy vint premierement / Amour et biauté parfaite / Amara valde

6. Donnez, signeurs, donnez a toutes mains

7. Martyrum gemma latria / Diligenter inquiramus / A Christo honoratus

8. Je ne cuit pas qu'oncques a creature

9. Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient

10. Qui es promesses de fortune se fie / Ha! Fortune trop sui mis loing de port / Et non est qui adjuvet

11. De ce que foul pense (P. des Molins)

12. Armes, amours / O flour des flours de toute melodie (F. Andrieu)

Editorial Reviews

J.F. Weber, Fanfare, May/June 2004

"Things don’t get much better than this, as far as records go."

Product Description

An all-vocal recording of the beautiful ballades and motets of Guillaume de Machaut, one of the most prolific poets and composers of fourtheenth-century France. Also includes pieces by P. des Molins and the posthumous homage to Machaut by F. Andrieu.

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning performance!, December 26, 2004

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J. Gabrielson (Walnut Creek, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unrequited (Audio CD)

I heard this group in performance where I purchased this CD. The CD is everything I had hoped it would be having just heard a spectacular concert. These artists have superb voices and flawless technique. I only wish I had bought their second CD, Flyleaves.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unusually artful ars nova, April 22, 2007

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Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Unrequited (Audio CD)

Perfectly suited and well matched voices, and highly polished ars nova vocal technique! The very best CD of Machaut's chansons available, if not the only one worth hearing twice! Machaut is regarded as the last great poet to set his own poems to equally great music, but modern singers have had difficulty performing him plausibly, partly because of his rhythmic subtlety and partly because "pythagorean" tuning works better than tempered. This trio manages both problems.
A week later: I remembered an old disk, The Mirror of Narcissus sung by Gothic Voices. I dug it out and I must confess that it should have been forgotten. I don't want to withdraw my endorsement of "Unrequited" but I have to temper it. "The Mirror of Narcissus" is noticeably more exciting, especially in treatment of hockets and other rhythmic/rhetorical techniques so central to Machaut.