Arnold & Hugo de Lantins (1415-1430) - Secular Works - Le Miroir de Musique, Baptiste Romain (2016) {Ricercar}

The composers Arnold and Hugo de Lantins were natives of the diocese of Liège, but it was in Italy, principally in Pesaro and Venice that their presence is confirmed between the years of 1420 and 1430. As with the works of Johannes Ciconia, a fellow native of Liège whose time in Italy had preceded theirs, their secular and sacred compositions are preserved in manuscripts copied in Italy. Closely rubbing shoulders with their illustrious contemporary Guillaume Dufay, the Lantins brothers combined archaic traits with the earliest characteristics of the Renaissance. Le Miroir de Musique presents a large selection of French and Italian chansons which enriches our view of the cultural sophistication of the Italian courts at the start of the 15th century.

All the instrumental pieces are adaptations of the chansons and motets by Hugo and Arnold de Lantins; these have been composed according to sources of instrumental music from the 15th century. The divisions on Mirar non posso are inspired by the Codex Faenza, compiled around 1420. The Buxheim organ book was used as a model for both Ce jour de l’an and for the prelude to Io sum tuo servo. The manuscrit 431 from the communal library in Perugia (c.1490), together with the Italian balli described by Domenico da Piacenza (c.1450), were the sources of inspiration for the basse-danse Amour servir and the saltarello Ne me vueillés.

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Personnel:
LE MIROIR DE MUSIQUE
Sabine Lutzenberger: soprano
Clara Coutouly: soprano
Bernd Oliver Fröhlich: tenor
Achim Schulz: tenor
Elizabeth Rumsey: vielle
Tobie Miller: hurdy-gurdy & recorders
Silke Schulze: shawn & pommer
Marc Lewon: lute & gittern
Nathaniel Wood: slide trumpet

Baptiste Romain: vielle, bagpipes & direction



tracklist:
Hugo De LANTINS
01. Per amor de costey 4’47
soprano (SL), 2 tenors, 2 vielles, recorder

02. Un seul confort pour mon cuer resjoïr 1’52
2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 vielles, lute

Arnold De LANTINS
03. Las, pouray je mon martire celer 2’49
2 sopranos, 2 tenors

04. Ne me vueillés belle oblier 3’44
2 tenors, 2 vielles, lute

Hugo De LANTINS
05. Hélas amour, que ce qu’endure 3’45
soprano (CC), 2 vielles, lute

Arnold De LANTINS
06. Amour servir et honnourer [Basse danse & Quaternaria] 5’08
2 vielles, recorder, guittern

07. Amour servir et honnourer 2’16
2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 vielles, recorder, lute

08. Ce jour de l’an, belle, je vous supply 2’46
2 vielles, lute

Hugo De LANTINS
09. Chanter ne scay ce poyse moy 2’33
bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, shawm, slide trumpet

10. Celsa sublimatur victoria / Sabine, presul dignissime 1’47
2 sopranos, 2 tenors

Arnold De LANTINS
11. Tota pulchra es amica mea 2’12
2 vielles, lute

12. Tota pulchra es amica mea 2’44
2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 vielles, lute

Hugo De LANTINS
13. Grant ennuy m’est, tres douce simple et coye 3’33
bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, pommer

14. Plaindre m’estuet de ma damme jolye 6’05
soprano (SL), 2 tenors

Arnold De LANTINS
15. Puis que je voy, belle, que ne m’amés 5’24
soprano (CC), lute

Hugo De LANTINS
16. Je suy exent entre aman pour amour 4’31
soprano (SL), 2 tenors

Arnold De LANTINS
17. Hélas emy ! ma dame et ma mestresse 3’45
soprano (SL), 2 tenors, 2 vielles, lute

Hugo De LANTINS
18. Mirar non posso ni conzerner 2’04
2 vielles, recorder, guittern

19. Io sum tuo servo 2’58
2 vielles, lute

20. Puisque je suy cyprianés 2’11
2 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 vielles, recorder, lute