(The) Whyte Rose
One of two recordings in as many months to take as its theme the union of England and Burgundy in 1468
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Composer or Director: Anonymous, Walter Frye, Antoine Busnois, Robertus d'Anglia, Johannes Ockeghem, Molinet, Robert Morton
Label: Arcana
Magazine Review Date: 3/2000
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 66
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: A301
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Salve virgo mater pya |
Walter Frye, Composer
Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble Walter Frye, Composer |
My herte ys so plungit yn greffe |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
(The) Hye Desire |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Alas, alas is my chief song |
Walter Frye, Composer
Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble Walter Frye, Composer |
Danse de Cleves |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Je ne puis vivre ainsi |
Antoine Busnois, Composer
Antoine Busnois, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Quant de vous seul |
Johannes Ockeghem, Composer
Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble Johannes Ockeghem, Composer |
El mal foco arda quella falsa lingua |
Robertus d'Anglia, Composer
Robertus d'Anglia, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Ballo de love |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Anima liquefacta est/Stirps Jesse |
Antoine Busnois, Composer
Antoine Busnois, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Thus ye compleyne my grevous hevynesse |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Love wolle I withoute eny variaunce/T'Andernacken |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
My wofull hert of all gladnesse baryeyne |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
(Le) Souvenir de vous me tue |
Robert Morton, Composer
Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble Robert Morton, Composer |
Fayre and discrete fresche wommanly figure |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Tart ara mon cuer sa plaisance |
Molinet, Composer
Molinet, Composer Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble |
Sospitati dedit |
Walter Frye, Composer
Crawford Young, Lute Ferrara Ensemble Walter Frye, Composer |
Author: Fabrice Fitch
The sound is strikingly warm, vivid and clear, and captures the almost sensuous interplay of lines whatever the distribution. In the English music the almost weightless approach to rhythm works wonderfully: Frye's music lays very little agogic stress on the strong beat. But in the pieces by Busnois, whose music draws so much more from rhythmic impetus, this approach is less effective and leads to the very few solecisms on the disc (such as the perceptible slowing of the pulse in the first phrase of Je ne puis vivre, or the occasional lack of direction in Anima mea liquefacta est). Yet even in these pieces there are moments that can only be described as gorgeous, and elsewhere the combination of sound-image and interpretative nous is as admirable as anything the group has achieved: one can mention, almost at random,
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