Fortune Infortune: A Portrait of Margaret of Austria
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96513
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 27th October 2023
Contents
Works
Changier ne veulx, c'est mon plaisirConsideres mes incessantes plaintes/Fortuna desperata
Dueil et ennuy
Fors seullement
Je ne dis mot
La jonne dame
Maria, mater gratie
Ne vous chaille mon cueur
Quand il advient choses
Qui vult aymer il fault estre joieux
Se je souspire - Ecce iterum
Tous nobles cueurs, venez
Je my levay un matin
Va t'ens, regret
Douleur me bat
Je me complains
Petite Camusette
Plaine de dueil
Plusieurs regretz
Ne vous chaille mon cueur
Cueurs desolez
Brunette m'amiette
Artists
Daniel Elgersma (countertenor)Seldom Sene
Works
Changier ne veulx, c'est mon plaisirConsideres mes incessantes plaintes/Fortuna desperata
Dueil et ennuy
Fors seullement
Je ne dis mot
La jonne dame
Maria, mater gratie
Ne vous chaille mon cueur
Quand il advient choses
Qui vult aymer il fault estre joieux
Se je souspire - Ecce iterum
Tous nobles cueurs, venez
Je my levay un matin
Va t'ens, regret
Douleur me bat
Je me complains
Petite Camusette
Plaine de dueil
Plusieurs regretz
Ne vous chaille mon cueur
Cueurs desolez
Brunette m'amiette
Artists
Daniel Elgersma (countertenor)Seldom Sene
About
The present album arises from a concert devised in 2018 for a festival in Bruges celebrating notable female figures from history. Seldom Sene chose to focus on Margaret of Austria (1480–1530), who was governor of the Habsburg Netherlands for almost 20 years. Margaret had grown up with the benefits of a first-class education afforded to very few of her female peers: she was adept in all the humanities, and her library of books was reckoned one of the most extensive and learned at the time, a fit place to welcome distinguished guests such as Albrecht Dürer.
From around 1515, one of the volumes in Margaret’s library was her newly commissioned personal songbook: a collection of 55 chansons and motets, richly decorated with high-quality miniatures and initials. Many of the song texts speak of loss, sorrow and loneliness, perhaps reflecting her status at the time as a noble widow, following the death of her second husband, Philibert II of Savoy, in 1504. Margaret herself seems to have written several of them, and may also have been involved in their musical setting.
Marian devotion is another theme of the songbook reflected in this selection made and transcribed and recorded by Seldom Sene. Sacred hymns are balanced out by secular laments, but also lighter and more cheerful numbers such as ‘Brunette m’amiette’ and ‘La jonne dame’. Many of the composers are now lost to us and effectively anonymous, but the names that survive are worthy of Margaret’s elevated status, including Josquin and Pierre de la Rue.
‘Like Margaret,’ concludes María Martínez Ayerza in her booklet note, ‘like her courtiers and visitors, we see and hear the music and texts in this songbook and we are moved, stirred. These artworks make us change, as we relate the texts, even the titles, and the rather abstract beauty of the music to ourselves.’
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