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Motet: Hareu, hareu! / Helas! ou sera pris confors / Obediens usque ad mortem (M10)

from Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune by Blue Heron

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Motet (M10) Hareu, hareu! / Helas! ou sera pris confors / Obediens usque ad mortem

TRIPLUM
Hareu, hareu! le feu, le feu, le feu
D’ardant desir, qu’ainc si ardant ne fu,
Qu’en mon cuer ha espris et soustenu
Amours, et s’a la joie retenu
D’espoir qui doit attemprer celle ardure.
Las! se le feu qui ensement l’art dure,
Mes cuers sera tous bruis et estains,
Que de ce feu est ja nercis et tains
Pour ce qu’il est fins, loyaus et certains.
Si que j’espoir que deviés y ert, eins
Que bonne Amour de merci l’asseure
Par la vertu d’esperance seure.
Car pour li seul, qui endure mal maint,
Pitié deffaut ou toute biauté maint :
Durtés y regne et Dangiers y remaint,
Desdains y vit et Loyautés s’i faint
Et Amours n’a de li ne de moy cure.
Joie le het, ma dame li est dure,
Et, pour croistre mes dolereus meschiés,
Met dedens moy Amours, qui est mes chiés,
Un desespoir qui si mal entechiés
Est que tous biens ha de moy esrachiés,
Et en tous cas mon corps si desnature
Qu’il me convient morir malgré Nature.

MOTETUS
Helas! ou sera pris confors
Pour moy qui ne vail nès que mors ?
Quant riens garentir ne me puet
Fors ma dame chiere qui vuet
Qu’en desespoir muire, sans plus,
Pour ce que je l’aim miex que nuls,
Et Souvenir pour enasprir
L’ardour de mon triste desir
Me moustre adès sa grant bonté
Et sa fine vraie biauté
Qui doublement me fait ardoir ?
Einsi sans cuer et sans espoir,
Ne puis pas vivre longuement,
N’en feu cuers humeins nullement
Ne puet longue durée avoir.

TENOR
Obediens usque ad mortem.

TRIPLUM
Help, help! the fire, the fire, the fire
of burning desire, burning as never before,
which Love has kindled and stoked
in my heart, withholding the joy
of hope which could soothe this burning.
Alas! if the fire which burns so hot endures,
my heart will be totally burned up and extinguished,
for it is already blackened and charred
just for being pure, loyal, and trustworthy.
So that I hope the fire goes out, and
that good Love will assure my heart of mercy
through the virtue of certain hope.
Because for my heart alone, which endures many pains,
Pity is lacking where all beauty rules:
There Cruelty reigns and Constraint is ever present,
Disdain lives there and Loyalty is feigned,
And Love cares nothing for my heart or for me.
Joy hates it, my lady is hard towards it,
and, to increase my dolorous trials,
Love, who is my lord, engenders within me
a despair that has so badly infected me
that it has eradicated all good things,
and in all ways so denatures my body
that I must die in spite of Nature.

MOTETUS
Alas! where will comfort be found
for me, for whom nothing but death will avail?
when nothing can protect me
save my dear lady, who wishes
nothing more than that I die in despair
because I love her better than any other,
and Memory, in order to embitter
the ardor of my sad desire,
continually sets before me her great goodness
and her pure, true beauty,
which makes me burn twice as badly?
In this condition, without heart or hope,
I cannot survive for long,
nor can any human heart
last long in the fire.

TENOR
Obedient unto death.

[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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