Le Miroir de Musique

Le Miroir de Musique

Around 1300, an anonymous compiler collected music that was already falling out of fashion: monophonic trouvère songs and troubadour poetry in Frenchified Occitan. Le Miroir de Musique became fascinated by the enigmatic Chansonnier du Roi: a privileged witness of cultural exchange between North and South, filled with sacred and secular repertoire. With ars antiqua motets, chansons, and instrumental pieces, Baptiste Romain and his ensemble open a sonic window into this museum without walls.

Programme

• Anonymous

  A l'entrada del tans florit

  13th century
• Ernoul le Vielle de Gastinois

  Por conforter mon corage / Go

  fl. late 13th century
• Anonymous

  La tierche Estampie Roial

  13th century
• Pieros li Borgnes de Lille

  Li louseignolz que j'oi chanter

  ?
• Anonymous

  Domna pos vos ay chausida
  Nus ne se doit repentir / Audi filia
  Hui main au dolz mois de mai / Hec dies

  13th century
• Chastelain de Coucy

  Li nouviaus tanz & mais & violete

  c1165-1203
• Anonymous

  Tant es gay es avinentz
  La prime estampie roial

  13th century
• Gilles le Vinier

  A ce m’acort

  fl. 1225-52
• Anonymous

  Danse
  Quant revient et foille et flors / Flos filius
  
  Programme subject to change

  13th century

Musicians

• Miriam Trevisan soprano
• Tessa Roos mezzo-soprano
• Ivo Haun tenor
• Elizabeth Rumsey vielle, psaltery
• Aliénor Wolteche vielle
• Baptiste Romain musical direction, vielle, rebec, bagpipes