AMOURS AMOURS AMOURS
Lute Duos around 1500

1 Mabriano de Orto (1460-1529): Ave Maria
2 Jean Japart (fl.c.1476-1481) or Antoine Busnois (c.1430-1492): Amours amours amours
3 Roellrin [Raulin] / Hayne van Ghizeghem (c.1445-1476/97): De tous biens plaine
4 Heinrich Isaac (c.1450/55-1517): La morra
5 Joan Ambrosio Dalza (fl.1508): Calata
6 Giovanni Ambrogio: Petits riens
7 Francesco Spinacino (fl.1507) / Anonymous: Jay pris amours
8 Francesco Spinacino / Josquin Desprez (c.1450/55-1521): Fortuna desperata
9 Francesco Spinacino / Hayne van Ghizeghem: De tous biens plaine
10 Francesco Spinacino / Josquin Desprez: La Bernardina
11 Anonymous: Chui dicese
12 Anonymous: Moro de doglia
13 Anonymous: Aime sospiri
14 Anonymous / Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474): Le serviteur
15 Erasmus Lapicida (c.1440-1547) / Anonymous: Tandernaken
16 Hayne van Ghizeghem: Amours amours
17 Anonymous (after Hans Gerle, c.1500-1570): Scaramella
18 Alexander Agricola (1445/46-1506) / Hayne van Ghizeghem: De tous biens plaine
19 Josquin Desprez: Scaramella
20 Anonymous: Tandernaken
21 Antoine Busnois: Fortuna desperata
22 Josquin Desprez: Fortuna desperata
23 Anonymous: Bassadanza
24 Alexander Agricola / Anonymous: Tandernaken
25 Anonymous: Ogni cosa
26 Alexander Agricola - Johannes Ghiselin (fl.1491-1507): Duo
27 Heinrich Isaac: E qui le dira
28 Heinrich Isaac: De tous bien plaine
29 Francesco Spinacino / Johannes Ghiselin: Juli amours
30 Francesco Spinacino / Incert.: Je ne fay
31 Josquin Desprez: Adieu mes amours

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About this CD

The Schola Cantorum in Basel has long championed the imaginative exploration of early music, creating expertly-researched programmes and encouraging superbly-performed interpretations with a close attention also to the most appropriate recording conditions. Such was the case with Amours amours amours, a disc of lute duos starting from music composed in the fifteenth century, recorded in 2001 by Karl-Ernst Schröder and Crawford Young and deservedly justifying its reissue now, courtesy of Glossa.

The two artists – and sadly Schröder was to die not long after the original release of the recording, which continues to serve as a memorial for him – had delved into the world of Renaissance chansons, frottole, basses danses and tenors, and the known arrangements of such original vocal and instrumental works. They had conjured an eminently satisfying selection which demonstrated both the legacy of this widely practiced performance activity and also Schröder and Young’s own improvisatory talents.

Beginning with the early musical prints of Ottaviano Petrucci, the lutenists have made use of Francesco Spinacino’s arrangements as a starting point for considering two, three and four-part versions of pieces by Josquin, Agricola, Ambrosio and Isaac and many other composers of the time, with the theme of love – as with the disc’s title – wordlessly flowing through the whole programme. The recording is accompanied by illuminating notes by Martin Kirnbauer and the two artists themselves.