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Je n​’​ay dueil que je ne suis morte

from Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 2 by Blue Heron

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    Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497) was one of the most celebrated musicians of the fifteenth century and one of the greatest composers of all time. He was every bit the equal of J.S. Bach in contrapuntal technique and profound expressivity, and like Bach able to combine the most rigorous intellectual structure with a beguiling sensuality. His two
    dozen songs set French lyric poetry in the courtly forms of his era—rondeau, virelai, and ballade—to exquisitely crafted polyphony in which all voices are granted equally beautiful and compelling melodies.

    This CD is the companion to Blue Heron’s 2019 release, Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 1, which was named to the Bestenliste of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and acclaimed in Gramophone for “performances of absolute clarity, beautifully in tune, beautifully balanced and beautifully recorded”; Early Music enthused that “the Boston-based ensemble is at its finest—a summit quite sublime.… The group’s extraordinary rapport with the music is evident everywhere in the recording; each melodic line is not only clear and precise but also imbued with obvious affection.”

    Besides twelve of Ockeghem’s songs, the disc includes two related works (Gilles Binchois’s Pour prison, quoted by Ockeghem in his song La despourveue, and Johannes Cornago’s Qu’es mi vida, arranged by Ockeghem) and an anoymous instrumental arrangement of Ockeghem’s Je n’ay dueil. The CD booklet contains complete texts and translations, and notes by music historian Sean Gallagher and Blue Heron’s artistic director, Scott Metcalfe.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 2 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.     ... more
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lyrics

Je n’ay dueil que je ne suis morte :
Ne doy je bien vouloir morir ?
Dueil a voulu mon cueur saisir
Qui de tous biens me desconforte.

Ma douleur est plus que trop forte,
Car sans avoir aucun plaisir

Je n’ay dueil que je ne suis morte :
Ne doy je bien vouloir morir ?

Je n’ay riens qui plus me conforte,
D’ueil ne voy plus que desplaisir.
Mort est le plus de mon desir,
Car quelque chose que on m’aporte,

I have no grief but that I am not dead:
should I not wish to die?
Grief has seized my heart
and deprives me of all things good.

My sorrow is more than too strong,
for having no pleasure whatsoever

I have no grief but that I am not dead:
should I not wish to die?

I have nothing that comforts me any longer,
my eye sees nothing but chagrin.
Death is my greatest desire,
for whatever happens to me,

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from Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 2, released April 12, 2024
Margot Rood, Kim Leeds, Sumner Thompson, Paul Guttry

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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