CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Sacred Music (Master Works)      

Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard

Recording date: September 1991

Reputedly hanged for debauchery at Paris in 1304, Jehannot de Lescurel is a perplexing figure. His 30-odd songs are known from only a single manuscript, but their style and place there seem to mark him as a key figure of his time, in some ways prefiguring the songs of Machaut. To have some two-thirds of his songs all together on a single disc is an enormous asset and may help towards a juster appreciation of his work ... he comes across as a composer of considerable resource ... these are quality performances.

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Note: This CD was later re-issued as a 2 CDs box (Virgin "Veritas" VMD 5 61 640 2 Millenium - Music from the Middle Ages) with Virgin "Veritas" 7243 5 45135 2 7 Les premieres polyphonies francaises

Jehan de Lescurel (d. 1304) was an innovative composer who died young (hanged as a thief, despite being a scholar and clerk at Notre Dame). Technically, he was one of the last of the trouveres and wrote only a single polyphonic work (the opening track; track #6 is performed with alternating voices, while track #9 is performed with a chorus refrain), despite the fact that his melodies are pregnant with such possibilities. Track #14 is a monophonic version of the opening polyphonic rondeau.

In some aspects, his compositions anticipate de Vitry who was apparently a somewhat younger contemporary, if Lescurel's young age is to be believed.