Track 7: Tousjours servir je veuil la douce flour (anonymous)

RECORDING OF THE YEAR (2006) @ www.medieval.org

FLOUR DE BEAULTÉ – Late Medieval Songs from Cyprus

Label: RAMÉE (RAM 0602), 2006

‘Flour de beaulté’ focuses on secular song repertoire from a magnificent early fifteenth-century parchment manuscript housed in the University Library in Torino (identified as J.II.9), considered ‘by far the largest repository of French music – or at least of music in the French tradition – between the Ars Nova compilations of the fourteenth and the Franco-Burgundian manuscripts of the late fifteenth century’ as well as ‘the most neglected major source of late medieval polyphony that has come down to us’ (Karl Kügle).

Pieces selected for this programme are among the finest of the 166 secular songs preserved in this manuscript. Seldom performed, many of these did not previously appear on disc.

LA MORRA: Els Janssens (voice), Corina Marti (flutes), Michal Gondko (lute), Dani Pelagatti (douçaine), Uri Smilansky (fiddle)

ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Corina Marti & Michal Gondko

With an introductory essay by Michal Gondko

REVIEWS

Beautiful… They capture the spirit of music… This is a fine recording. (Harmonia Early Music)
L’atmosphère sonore restituée par La Morra, par son raffinement et sa fluidité, est un écrin digne de ces joyaux. (Revue musicale de Suisse romande)
Una cristallina e seducente interpretazione. (MedioEvo)
Eine vorbildliche Produktion. (Toccata)
The most technically compelling interpretation to date… La Morra sets a new standard for performing this repertory, producing a rendition that seems entirely natural. (medieval.org) [read the full review].
The members of La Morra… sound as though they have lived with this music for a long time, so fluid are their performances. (Early Music)
Magistralement interprétée… Un plaisir insoupçonné. (Pizzicato)
Kostbar (Basler Zeitung)
Séduisante et plausible. (Diapason)
Un bijou. (Crescendo, September))
Auffallend natürlich. (Tages-Anzeiger)
Las interpretaciones que nos ofrecen los miembros de La Morra son, como en sus dos compactos anteriores, de una gran calidad técnica… El dominio absoluto del estilo musical y, sobre todo, el respeto que sus miembros profesan a la música convierten cada uno de sus discos en imprescindibles. (diverdi.com)
Süchtig hören kann man sich auch an der CD Flour de Beaulté…. Eine Entdeckung… (www.partituren.org)
Ein ruhig und langsam vorwärts fliessendes Geflecht, dessen poetische Schönheit sich dem Mittelalterliebhaber ganz unmittelbar erschliesst. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
La musique se déploie doucement, poétique et changeante, toute frémissante de la «subtilitas» qui l’anime et la nomme. (La Libre Belgique)

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