Unrequited II (4 voice program)
Medieval & Renaissance French Love Songs

An expanded version of the group's critically-acclaimed recording "Unrequited" (one of Goldberg magazine’s Best CDs of 2004). The members of Liber unUsualis are joined by a guest baritone in this exploration of the different phases and facets of love, expressed by composers ranging from the time of the Trouvères through the Renaissance.

Review of "Unrequited" (the CD): "Deeply expressive.... Liber unUsualis imbue this music with...nobility and grace. The effect is ravishing." (Gramophone)

PROGRAM (subject to change):

I.  “I am not at all certain of finding love”
Trop plus… / Biauté… / Je ne sui… (Machaut)
S’elle m’amera / Petite camusette (Ockeghem)
Dame de qui toute ma joie vient (Machaut)
                                
II. “I prefer to languish in my pain”                     
J’aim mieus languir (Machaut)
Je suis deshéritée (Pierre Cadéac)
Doulce memoire (Francesco de Layolle)
Si je ne voy m’amie (Adrian Willaert)
Las, je me plains (François Regnart)
                                                                 
III. “When the shepherd saw the shepherdess”          
Quand le berger veid la bergère (Costeley)
Par un matinet / Les un bosquet / ... (Anon., 13th c.)
M'amie ung jour (Antonio Gardano)
Jouissance vous donneray (Sermisy)           
                                
IV. “A charming song of love”                                
Volez-vous que je vous chant (Trouvère Chanson, 13th c)
Dame, ne regardés pas (Machaut)
Rose, liz, printemps, verdure (Machaut)
Je ne vis onque la pareille (Binchois)
Tant que vivrai (Sermisy)
                                
V. “Adieu”                                
Adieu m’amour, adieu ma joye (Guillaume Du Fay)
Armes, amours / O flour des flours (F. Andrieu)
Mille regretz (Josquin des Prez)