Sacred music by Matteo da Perugia
(end of the 14th century and beginning of the 15th century),
taken from manuscript de Modena.
Voice, organetto, recorders, viella, lute.
Près du soleil
Birds in Madrigals and Virelais from the Middle-Ages
Voice, recorders, viella, lute
Tristre Plaisir (sad pleasure)
Courtly songs by Gilles Binchois (1400-1460?) and Guillaume Dufay (1400-1474?), instrumental pieces from the Buxheimer Orgelbuch (1450-70) and the Lochhamer Liederbuch (1452) based on Burgundian chansons.
Voice, recorders, viella, lute, percussion.
En ce gracieux tamps (in this graceful time)
Secular music from the 14th and 15th centuries, French Ars Nova and Ars Subtilior
(pieces by Baude Cordier, Guillaume de Machaut, Solage, Jakob de Senleches)
Voice, organetto, recorders, viella, lute.
Pater meus agricola est
Vocal and instrumental polyphony by Alexander Agricola (1446-1506) and his contemporaries.
Voice, recorders, viella, lute.
Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah)
Sacred music for the holy week. Lamentations and instrumental music from the 15th century.
1 to 3 voices, recorders, viella, lute.
Louons Amours (let’s praise love)
The art of loving in the middle ages. French courtly songs of the 14th and 15th centuries depicting all the diverse aspects of love, from despair to bliss.
Voice, organetto, recorders, viella, lute, percussion.