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Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient

from Johannes Ockeghem Complete Songs Vol. 1 by Blue Heron

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    Besides eleven songs by Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497), this disc includes two related works: the anonymous “En atendant vostre venue” from the recently-discovered Leuven Chansonnier (probably copied c. 1475 in the Loire Valley, where Ockeghem lived and worked), whose text borrows the first line of Ockeghem’s "Quant de vous seul", and "Au travail suis" by the composer Barbingant, which quotes both text and music from the opening of Ockeghem’s "Ma maistresse".

    Ockeghem was one of the most celebrated musicians of the fifteenth century and is one of the greatest composers of all time, 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 the fifteenth century—rondeau, virelai, and ballade—to exquisitely crafted polyphony in which all voices are granted equally beautiful and compelling melodies.

    The CD booklet contains complete texts and translations and notes on the music and performance practice by Sean Gallagher (musicological adviser for "Ockeghem@600", Blue Heron’s project to perform the complete works of Johannes Ockeghem in a series of thirteen concert programs) and Blue Heron’s music director Scott Metcalfe.

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lyrics

Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient,
On le peult bien qui vieult apercevoir,
Mays c’est pour ce que je ne puis veoir
Ma maistresse ainsi qu’aultres feroient.

Bien envieulx certes aulcuns seroient,
Si par sa grace du bien povoye avoir.

Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient,
On le peult bien qui vieult apercevoir.

S’il m’avenoit, grant doleur porteroient,
Car veoir mon bien leur feroit recepvoir
Mal si tresgrant que s’il duroyt, pour voir
Je suis tout seur que de dueil creveroient.

Au travail suis …

I am in agony that few would believe—
anyone who wishes to can perceive it clearly—
but it is because I cannot see
my mistress as others may do.

Some would be very envious, certainly,
if by her grace I should have some good.

I am in agony that few would believe—
anyone who wishes to can perceive it clearly.

If I were granted mercy, some would suffer greatly,
for seeing me benefit would cause them
such very great pain that, if it lasted, in truth
I am quite sure they would die of grief.

I am in agony …

Translation by Scott Metcalfe

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from Johannes Ockeghem Complete Songs Vol. 1, released November 1, 2019
Margot Rood and Stefan Reed, voices
Scott Metcalfe, vielle
Engineering and mastering: Joel Gordon
Producer: Scott Metcalfe
Editing: Eric Milnes & Joel Gordon
Assistant Session Producers: Michael Barrett, Eric Milnes & Martin Near
Graphic Design: Melanie Germond
Cover photo: Young Woman with a Pink, c. 1485-90, attributed to Hans Memling (d. 1494, Bruges), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437059)
Recorded at Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill
September 29-October 2 & October 28-30, 2018

Music composed by Barbingant (fl. c.1465-75). All songs edited from original sources by Scott Metcalfe.

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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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