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Ballade: Esperance qui m​’​asseure (B13)

from Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune by Blue Heron

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Ballade (B13) Esperance qui m’asseure

Esperance qui m’asseure,
Joie sans per, vie a mon vueil,
Dous penser, sade norriture,
Tres bon eur, plaisant accueil,
Et meint autre grant bien recueil,
Quant Amours m’a tant enrichi
Que j’aim dame, s’aten merci.

Et se cest atente m’est dure
En desirant, pas ne m’en dueil,
Car le gré de ma dame pure
Et d’Amours tous jours faire vueil.
Et s’a guerredon sans pareil,
Ce m’est vis, puis qu’il est einsi
Que j’aim dame, s’aten merci.

Car Souvenirs en moy figure
Sa fine biauté sans orgueil,
Sa bonté, sa noble figure,
Son gent mainteing, son bel accueil,
Et comment si dous riant oueil
Par leur attrait m’ont mené, si
Que j’aim dame, s’aten merci.

Hope which reassures me,
joy without peer, a life to my liking,
sweet thought, pleasing sustenance,
great happiness, pleasant welcome,
and many other great good things I receive,
such riches has Love bestowed on me,
for I love a lady and reward awaits.

And though this waiting is hard for me
because I desire, I don’t complain,
for to do the will of my faultless lady
and of Love is always my wish,
and it is a recompense without equal,
in my opinion, that so it is
that I love a lady and reward awaits.

For Memory depicts in my mind’s eye
her perfect beauty without pride,
her goodness, her noble mien,
her genteel bearing, her fair welcome,
and reminds me how her sweet laughing eyes
attracted me and drew me in, so
that I love a lady and reward awaits.

[English Translation © Scott Metcalfe. Unauthorized reprinting strictly prohibited.]

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from Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune, released October 21, 2022

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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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