The Mirror of Narcissus: Songs by Guillaume de Machaut

by Guillaume de Machaut / Gothic Voices

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This meticulously researched performance by Gothic Voices breathes vivid life into the 14th-century secular chansons of the Ars nova master. The unaccompanied vocal polyphony is rendered with pristine clarity, offering a soothing, meditative window into medieval courtly love and spiritual devotion.

Genres

  • Ars nova

Tracklist

  1. Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient, Ballade 42/Remedede Fortune 5 (a 4)
  2. Foy porter, Virelai 22
  3. Dame, je sui cils / Fins cuers dous / Fins cuers dous, Motet 11
  4. Tuit mi penser, Virelai 25
  5. Dame, mon cuer en vous remaint, Rondeau 22/Remedede Fortune 7
  6. Dame, a qui, Virelai 12
  7. Biauté qui toutes autres pere, Ballade 4 (a 3)
  8. Je vivroie liement, Virelai 21
  9. Rose, Lai is, printemps, Virelai erdure, Rondeau 10
  10. Dame, a vous sans retollir, Virelai 33/Remedede Fortune 6
  11. Amours me fait desirer, Ballade 19
  12. Douce dame jolie, Virelai 4
  13. Felix virgo / Inviolata genitrix / Ad te suspiramus, Motet 23