A 15th-century Cabaret
Chansons by Du Fay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Morton, and others, drawn especially from the Chansonnier cordiforme. Five singers and three instrumentalists playing rebec, fiddles, harps, douçaine & recorder.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Keene State College, Keene, NH
Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 8 pm
Houghton Chapel
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 7 pm
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 8 pm
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
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Program
I
Qui veut mesdire, si mesdie
Gilles de Bins, dit Binchois (c. 1400-1460)
Tristre plaisir et douleureuse joie (instrumental)
Tom Zajac & Debra Nagy (on tenor by Binchois)
Tristre plaisir et douleureuse joie
Binchois
II
Hora cridar oymè! posso bene io
anonymous
Craindre vous vueil, doulce damme de pris
Guillaume Du Fay (c. 1397-1474)
III
Je ne vis onques la pareille
Binchois
L’autre d’antan, l’autrier passa
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1425-1497)
IV
Alas alas alas is my chief song
So ys emprentid in my remembrance
Walter Frye (d. 1474?)
*intermission*
V
Malheur me bat (instrumental)
? Malcort
Ma bouche rit et ma pensee pleure
Ockeghem
Le monde est tel pour le present (instrumental)
Antoine Busnoys (c. 1430-1492)
VI
Le souvenir de vous me tue
Robert Morton (c. 1430-after 1479)
Le souvenir a2
Le souvenir a4
Johannes Tinctoris (c. 1435-1511?)
VII
Helas mon dueil
Du Fay
Je m’esbais de vous, mon cueur
Busnoys
VIII
L’autrier, ja pieça / Trop suis jonete / En l’ombre du buissonet
Busnoys
Robinet se veult marier / Se tu te marie / Helas pourquoy se mari-on?
anonymous
Files a marier / Se tu te marie
Binchois
Performers
Daniela Tošić
Martin Near
Jason McStoots
Aaron Sheehan
Paul Guttry
Laura Jeppesen, rebec & vielle
Tom Zajac, recorder, douçaine & harp
Scott Metcalfe, vielle & harp, director