David JAMES
(Vocals)
Roger COVEY-CRUMP
(Vocals)
John POTTER
(Vocals)
Gordon JONES
(Vocals)

Guillaume DUFAY (1400-1474)
01. J'Atendray Tant Qu'il Vous PLayra
02. Quel Fronte Signorille In Paradiso
03. Ce Moys De May Soyons Lies Et Joyeux
04. Je Me Complains Piteusement
05. Ma Belle Dame Souveraine

Johannes REZON (1425-35)
06. Il Est Temps Que Je Me Retraye

ANONYMOUS
07. Douce Speranche My Conforte Tous Jours

Johannes HASPROIS (1378-1428)
08. Ma Doulce Amour, Je Me Doy Bien Complaindre

ANONYMOUS
09. Or Sus, Mon Cuer, Vers Ma Dame T'Encline

Bortolomeus BROLLO (1430-50)
10. Nulx Ne Pourroit Ymaginer

PAULLET (1420-25)
11. J'Aim. Qui ?

Guillaume MALBECQUE (1400-1465)
12. Adieu Vous Di, Mes Seigneurs Et Amis
13. Quant De La Belle Me Parti
14. Dieu Vous Doinst Bon Jour

Prepositus BRIXIENSIS (1411-1425
15. O Spirito Gentil, Tu M'Ay Percosso

Guillaume DUFAY
16. Navré Je Suis D'Un Art Penetratif
17. Entre Vous, Gentils Amoureux
18. Belle, Veuilles Moy Retenir
19. Je Veux Chanter De Cuer Joyeux
20. Ce Jour De L'An Voudray Joye Mener
21. Par Droit Je Puis Bien Complaindre Et Gemir

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This recording brings together one of the world's most famous vocal ensembles with one of the world's most important music manuscripts (MS Canon. Misc. 213), a collection of mainly fifteenth-century vocal music from the Bodleian library in Oxford. The HILLIARD ENSEMBLE are the perfect medium for this music, with their experience of music new and old (including their mould-breaking work with saxophonist Jan GARBAREK). Their quality of sound and commitment to the gentle but passionate music of these early 15th century songs have produced a recording experience which would be hard to match anywhere. The songs deal in a timeless way with the universal theme of love, both the ultra-serious and high-brow to more prosaic expressions of yearning, hope and longing, and give us the essence of the intellectual and musical artistry of secular music in the early 15th century. On "Sweet Love, Sweet Hope", medieval French lyrics, the fine acoustics of an Oxford college chapel, and the incomparably beautiful tones of the HILLIARD ENSEMBLE combine in music of ecstatic feeling and sensuality.

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