Listen & tracks
14 works
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1 Quant je sui mis Guillaume de Machaut
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2 Douce dame jolie Guillaume de Machaut
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3 Danca Amorosa, La manfredina Anonymous [instrumental]
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4 Kalenda Maya Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
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5 Tant m'abelis Folquet de Marselha
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6 Double Estampie Anonymous [instrumental]
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7 Inperayritz – Verges ses par Anonymous
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8 Saltarello Anonymous [instrumental]
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9 La Rosa Anonymous
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10 Though Some Saith Henry VIII
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11 Je n'ay point plus Claudin de Sermisy
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12 O My Heart / Consort VIII Henry VIII
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13 Stonecutter / Greensleeves Traditional
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Three Lute SongsJohn Dowland 3 movements
- 14 What if I Never Speed
- 15 His Golden Locks
- 16 Rest Awhile, You Cruel Cares
The programme moves from 12th-century troubadour songs through beautiful settings by Machaut to 15th-century French and Spanish dance music, then English lute songs by Henry VIII and John Dowland.
Pastance perform on a wide range of medieval instruments, including lute, harp, fiddle, bagpipes and gittern, bringing colour and theatrical presence to the early repertoire.
Reviews
... one of the most delightful (discs) I have ever heard ... This is one CD which is worth whatever it costs.
The voices combine beautifully and provide such expression, clarity and contrasts of sounds ... I would recommend adding Pastance to your collection.
Artists
Pastance
ensemble
Pastance came together in 1993 to perform mediaeval and Renaissance music. Based in Sydney, the ensemble has reached the early-music fraternity and a wide public, from folk festivals and formal concerts to schools, corporate feasts and open-air markets.
John Dowland
composer
John Dowland's lute songs and ayres carry a rare, deliberate melancholy: tears that fall in measured pavans, love that stings in galliards, darkness that still sings. His music remains the living heart of the English Renaissance songbook.
Guillaume de Machaut
composer
Guillaume de Machaut's songs of courtly love sit at the heart of fourteenth-century French music: virelais, ballades and rondeaux where longing, grace and intricate rhyme meet the rhythmic daring of the ars nova.
Folquet de Marselha
composer
Claudin de Sermisy
composer
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras
composer
Henry VIII
composer
Henry VIII (1491–1547), King of England, was also an accomplished musician whose surviving songs and instrumental consorts belong to the early Tudor court repertory.
Performers
- Pastance · ensemble
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Categories
- Early music, Vocal
- Genres
- Early Music, Vocal & Opera
- Catalogue
- MCD 071
- EAN
- 9314574007121
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