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Aultre Venus estes sans faille

from Johannes Ockeghem Complete Songs Vol. 1 by Blue Heron

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    This disc comes in an attractive 4-panel wallet-style format, with a CD sleeve. There is no plastic tray, which makes for a greener (and more lightweight) package.

    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

Aultre Venus estes sans faille:
Plus que nulle autre creature
De corps, de beaulté, de figure
La semblez et de mesmes taille.

Celuy qui les amours detaille
Peult de vous dire par droicture,

Aultre Venus estes sans faille,
Plus que nulle autre creature.

Qui contredit j’offre bataille
A oultrance et a desmesure,
Maintenant qu’il vous fait injure
Se le tiltre tel ne vous baille.

Aultre Venus estes sans faille …

You are another Venus, without doubt:
more than any other creature
in body, in beauty, in countenance
you resemble her, and are of the same form.

He who tallies loves’ details
may rightly say of you,

You are another Venus, without doubt,
more than any other creature.

To him who denies it I offer battle
to the death and without limit,
maintaining that he does you wrong
if he does not grant you this title.

You are another Venus, without doubt …

Translation by Scott Metcalfe

credits

from Johannes Ockeghem Complete Songs Vol. 1, released November 1, 2019
Margot Rood and Aaron Sheehan, voices
Scott Metcalfe, harp
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 Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497). 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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