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Ab ora summa nuncius (anon) English, late 13th century from our Masters of the Rolls cd.
Flos floriger (anon) from The Earliest Songbook in England cd.
O Jerusalem (Hildegard) from the Jerusalem: Vision of Peace cd.
Joieux de cuer (Solage) from The Medieval Romantics cd.
Missa Caput - Agnus Dei (anon) from The Spirits of England and France - 4 cd.
A solis ortus (anon) from The Spirits of England and France - 5 cd.
Ave, generosa by Hildegard of Bingen from the cd A feather on the breath of God.
The Kyrie from Missa de Feria by Pierra de la Rue from the cd Pierra de la Rue: Missa de Feria, Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix.
Dueil angoisseux (Binchois) from The Castle of Fair Welcome cd.

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The Tournament of Love

Medieval love songs

A programme of secular music illustrating the subject of love - courtly and not-so-courtly - featuring works from England, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands by composers such as Bernard de Ventadorn, Blondel de Nesle, Richart de Semilli, Martim Codax, Colin Muset, Guillaume de Machaut, Francesco Landini, Solage, Guillaume Dufay, Gilles Binchois and, of course, Anonymous.

You will hear cantigas, troubador and trouvère songs, conducti, motets, canzonas, virelais, ballades and rondeaux, all of them concerned with love in its glorious variety, ranging from the unrequited through the fulfilled to the blatantly lustful. The music is by turns joyful, doleful, skittish and soulful and, if nothing else, proves that some things in life never change!

You can listen to the following pieces from this programme:

  • Mout souvent / Mout ai esté    Lower quality, phone modem   Higher quality, broadband
  • Rose, liz, printemps    Lower quality, phone modem   Higher quality, broadband