Motets

Hilliard Ensemble, Machaut - Motets

Motets
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Artist: Hilliard Ensemble, Machaut
Brand: HILLIARD ENSEMBLE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-03-30
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Tous corps/De souspirant cuer/Suspiro, motet for 3 voices
  2. He, Mors, com tu es haïe/Fine Amour, quie me vint navrer/Quare non sum
  3. De bon espoir/Puis que la douce/Speravi, motet for 3 voices
  4. Aucune gent/Qui plus aimme/Fiat voluntas tua, motet for 4 voices
  5. J'ay tant mon coeur/Lasse! Je suis en aventure/Ego moriar pro te, motet
  6. Qui es promesses de Fortune/Ha, Fortune! trop suis mis loing/Et non est
  7. Fons tocius superbie/O livoris feritas/Fera pessima, motet for 3 voices
  8. Hareu, hareu, le feu/Helas, ou sera/Obediens usque ad mortem, motet for
  9. Dame, je sui cilz/Fins cuers doulz/(tenor), motet for 3 voices
  10. Tant doucement m'ont attrait/Eins que ma dame/Ruina, motet for 3 voices
  11. Amours qui ha le povoir/Faus samblant/Vidi dominum, motet for 3 voices
  12. Lasse! comment oublieray/Se j'aim mon loyal/Pour quoy me bat mes maris?
  13. Bone pastor Guillerme/Bone pastor qui pastores/(tenor), motet for 3 voi
  14. Martyrum gemma latria/Diligenter inquiramus/A Christo honoratus, motet
  15. Trop plus est bele/Biaute paree/Je ne sui mie, motet for 3 voices
  16. Christe que lux es/Veni Creator Spiritus/Tribulatio proxima est, motet
  17. Tu qui gregem/Plange, regni/Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge, motet
  18. Felix virgo/Inviolata genitrix/Ad te suspiramus, motet for 4 voices

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Free Music Review: Hilliard Ensemble as Good as Ever
Hit: 5 Stars

The Hilliard Ensemble was founded by Paul Hillier thirty years ago, a small male choir specializing in vocal music of the Mediaval and Renaissance periods. Although they've strayed a bit from their original purpose in those thirty years, recording modern music more and more frequently (as well as having several compositions comissioned for them) and even releasing a billboard-charting crossover album about ten years ago (the beautiful "Officium"), in this new release they get back to their early music roots.
And, I'm happy to say, they still sound as wonderful as ever.
Guillaume Machaut was one of the most versatile composers of his time, writing polyphonic music for the church, chansons, motets, and monodic songs and virelais as well. He's one of the few composers of the time whose work survives in bulk, and one of the few whose life was even close to being documented. Because of that, he has a sort of aura about him as one of the first "professional" composers that we know of. His music is brilliant, diversified, and soul-wrenching.
His motets are highly representational, not only of his secular output in particular, but of the motet form of the high Renaissance in general. They are almost always in three parts (the duplum, triplum, and tenor) with each part having a different text; in many cases, the texts, sung simultaneously, are extremely different in character and subject, which makes them all the more fascinating.
There is a great sadness to Machaut's motets, and the Hilliard Ensemble captures this sublime melancholy perfectly. The word "ethereal" is bandied about and used far too frequently these days, but it is a fitting description for the sound of this music: if you've never heard this sort of thing, you have a real treat in store for you. Though written some six hundred years ago, these pieces are remarkably contemporary and, like all great art, have a timeless quality that speaks to us today. The texts, also, deal with emotions and problems for humans that are as easy to relate to today as they were when they were written. Fortunately, complete English translations are included in the CD booklet, I would heartily recommend that any listener read them to get the full experience of these amazing works.
To conclude, this is a terrific release, and should please anyone who enjoys beautiful music, not just the early music aficionado.
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Release Date: 30-MAR-2004

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