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Program: #05-04 Air Date: Jan 17, 2005
We continue or celebration of the wealth of music from the Lowlands with a new recording from the masterful Orlando Consort. This recording is on the Harmonia Mundi label, and is CD HMU 90733.
Preservation of this program is made possible by a generous grant in honor of Richard Bayer.
All of the music on this program is by Antoine Busnois (c. 1430-1492). Born in near Tours, he had a career with Charles the Bold of Burgundy (until Charles' untimely end); Busnois, like so many others, wound up in Bruges.
The program is sponsored in part by the Belgian Tourist Office and the Embassy of Belgium in Washington, D.C. For more information on visiting Belgium, you may contact the Belgian Tourist Office at:
- Motet: Gaude caelestis Domina
("Rejoice, heavenly lady"). - Chanson: A une damme j'y fait veu
("I have vowed to a lady"). - Chanson: Amours nous traitte honnestement/Je m'en voy
("Love treats us honorably"/"I am going to the greenwood"). - Chanson-motet: Rejois-toy, terre de France/Rex Pacificus
("Rejoice, O land of France!"/"The peacemaking king has been extolled"). - Hymn: Conditor alme siderum
("Kindly Creator of the stars"). - Missa O Crux lignum.
- Chanson: Ja que li ne s'i attende
("Now let him not rely on it"). - Chanson: Vostre beaute/Vous marchez du bout du pied
("For your very charming beauty"/"You are walking on tiptoe"). - Chanson: Est-il merchy de quoy on pueut finer?
("Is there mercy whereby to make an end?"). - Motet: Incomprehensibilia/Prater rerum ordinem.
("Incomprehensible are three things"/"Against the order of nature").
Composer Info
Antoine Busnois (c. 1430-1492)
CD Info
CD HMU 90733
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