Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Dominique Vellard Dufay: Le Prince D'Amours CD

In the courts of the 15th century, music was a constant companion. The chanson was a daily pleasure, a vehicle for poetry and passion, a remedy for pain and sublimated the richness of amorous relationships. The chanson was perhaps the musical form in which Dufay, despite being a man of the Church, best expressed his immense talent. He was seen as an absolute master among his peers, owing to the perfection of his writing and it's intense expressiveness, and he enriched the history of music with a masterly oeuvre that went far beyond the stylistic boundaries of the time. His 80 chansons show great diversity and allow us to appreciate the constant evolution of the aesthetic of the genre. The Ensemble Gilles Binchois present a program of 2 selections in which courtly love finds it's most beautiful expression and refinement.

1. Dufay: Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir 2. Dufay: Dona gentile, bella come l'oro 3. Dufay: Belle, que vous ay je mesfait 4. Dufay: Les douleurs dont me sens tel somme 5. Dufay: L'alta belleza 6. Dufay: Je ne suy plus tel que souloye 7. Dufay: Adieu m'amour, adieu ma joye 8. Dufay: He compaignons, resvelons 9. Dufay: Ce moy de may soyons lies et joyeux 10. Dufay: Estrinez moy, je vous estrineray 11. Dufay: Ce jour le doibt, aussi fait la saison 12. Dufay: Ne je ne dors, ne je ne veille 13. Dufay: Resvelons nous, resvelons amoureux / Alons ent bien tos au 14. Dufay: Mille bonjours je vous presente 15. Dufay: En triumphant de Cruel Dueil 16. Dufay: Adyeu, quitte le demeurant 17. Dufay: Je me complains piteusement 18. Dufay: Franc cuer gentil 19. Dufay: Pour l'amour de ma doulce amye 20. Dufay: Mon chier amy, qu'av?s vous