A 14th-Century Salmagundi
/ Blue Heron
[17.10.2020]
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Blue Heron 1010
2020
release: September 4, 2020
Salmagundi: a savory dish composed of chopped meats, seafood, eggs,
vegetables, and condiments; a mixture or hodgepodge; an assemblage of
miscellaneous components.
Blue Heron’s b>Salmagundi is a pleasing miscellany of music
composed c. 1300-1400, a delightful salad of ingredients gathered from
our storehouse of French and Italian songs, including virtuosic music
by Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini, and Jacob Senleches. Seven
vocal soloists are featured along with medieval fiddles, harp, and lute.
1. Aucun ont trouvé/Lonc tans me sui tenu/Annuntiantes [3:36]
Petrus de CRUCE (fl. c. 1290)
2. Garrit gallus/In nova fert animus [2:40]
Attr. to Philippe de VITRY (1291-1361)
3. En mon cuer a un descort [4:46]
Guillaume de MACHAUT (c. 1300-1377)
4. Biauté qui toutes autres pere [6:06]
Guillaume de MACHAUT (c. 1300-1377)
5. En attendant, Esperance conforte [11:51]
Jacob SENLECHES (fl. 1380s)
6. Io son un pellegrin [3:04]
Anonymous
7. Osellecto selvaggio [4:28]
Jacopo da BOLOGNA (fl. 1340–?1386)
8. Musica son/Già furon/Ciascun vuole [3:27]
Francesco LANDINI (c. 1325-1397)
Total time: 40:04
Michael Barrett, Ian Howell, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Martin Near, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson, voices
Laura Jeppesen, fiddle
Charles Weaver, lute
Scott Metcalfe, fiddle, harp, director
released September 4, 2020
Joel Gordon, engineering & mastering
Scott Metcalfe & Eric Milnes, producers
Eric Milnes & Joel Gordon, editing
Recorded at the Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, in 2010 & 2014.
Tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 & 8 were commissioned for the CD accompanying
Capturing Music: The Story of Notation by Thomas Forrest Kelly (W. W.
Norton: New York & London, 2015): used by permission from W. W.
Norton.
Tracks 3 & 7 were commissioned for the Oxford Anthology of Western
Music, ed. David J. Rothenberg & Robert R. Holzer (Oxford
University Press: New York and Oxford, 2013): used by permission from
Oxford University Press.
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