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Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort

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

Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort
Et que de vous je n’ay plus [nul] confort
Je prendray lors sur Dieu et sur mon ame
Qu’en ce monde vous ne trouverés ame
Qui mains [que moy] vous voulsist faire tort.

[Je cognoys bien que pour un faulx rapport
Vous arrestez a ce cruel deport,
Mais derechief vous fais serment ma dame:]

Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort
Et que de vous je n’ai plus [nul] confort
Je prendray lors sur Dieu et sur mon ame

[Que se Pitié en vostre ame s’endort
Tiendray pour seur que ne soyons d’accort
Et que bien tost perdray celle que j’ame.
Le demourant vous quitte aussi le blasme,
Car evader ne puis a male mort]

Se vostre cuer eslongne moy a tort …

Missing strophes by Fabrice Fitch.

If your heart wrongfully pushes me away
and I receive no more comfort from you,
then I shall swear to God and upon my soul
that in this world you’ll not find another soul
who might wish less than I to do you harm.

I know well that on account of a false report
you insist on this cruel separation,
but once again I take an oath to you, my lady:

If your heart wrongfully pushes me away
and I receive no more comfort from you,
then I shall swear to God and upon my soul.

For if in your soul Pity is asleep,
I will know for sure that we are no longer united
and that soon I will lose her whom I love.
Let others acquit you of blame, too,
for I cannot escape a bad death

If your heart wrongfully pushes me away …

Translation by Scott Metcalfe

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from Johannes Ockeghem Complete Songs Vol. 1, released November 1, 2019
Martin Near and Sumner Thompson, 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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