Du bon du cueur —
Capella Alamire · Alamire Consort, Peter Urquhart
Music by Mouton, Bauldeweyn, and Willaert
[4.10.2018]
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Recording: 2015 |
Immaculate Conception Church, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Release date: April 2018
1. Du bon du cueur, à 3 / anonymous
2. Missa Du bon du cueur: Kyrie / Noel Bauldeweyn
3. En douleur et tristesse, à 5 / Noel Bauldeweyn
4. En douleur et tristesse, à 6 / Adrian Willaert
5. Missa Du bon du cueur: Gloria / Bauldeweyn
6. Si par souffrir, à 5 / Jehan Le Cocq
7. Si par souffrir, à 4 / Tielman Susato
8. Missa Du bon du cueur: Credo / Bauldeweyn
9. Adieu mes amours, 4-ex-2 / Jean Mouton
10. Qui ne regrettroit, 4-ex-2 / Jean Mouton
11. Missa Du bon du cueur: Sanctus / Bauldeweyn
12. Petite camusette, 4-ex-2 / anonymous
13. Petite camusette, 4-ex-2 / Willaert
14. Missa Du bon du cueur: Agnus Dei / Bauldeweyn
15. Du bon du cueur, à 5 / Mouton
[4.10.2018]
medieval.org Remarks
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/cds/remarks.html
1 January 2019
Todd M. McComb
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Whereas Ashwell might be said to remove the skeleton from under
the decorations — or liberate them, as Schmelzer suggests
— their contemporary (who did outlive La Rue & Josquin)
Bauldeweyn presents more structural innovation: The
Beauty Farm double album was revelatory in this regard, but now
Peter Urquhart has indeed returned with a
contribution of his own, in this case an
album around the Missa Du bon du cueur with some related
songs by other composers.
Here I actually prefer the song performances,
including for their consort arrangements around low instruments
(including sackbuts). The result is distinctive & earthy (&
reminds me of later diminution technique, e.g. as articulated by
Ortiz), but the large ensemble used on the mass tracks (& these
may date to different recording sessions), together with so-so
recording equipment, lends a rather muddy result there too. Still,
the solid structural clarity & sweep of Bauldeweyn's ideas do
come through, almost like a powerful musical scaffolding. This is
the sort of music that was soon to disappear, and these are workmanlike
performances worth hearing.
[5.1.2019]