Sollazzo Ensemble – En seumeillant (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

This recording by the Solazzo Ensemble isn’t just one to play “en seumeillant” – “while dreaming” – but also “en fumant” – while smoking – as it also contains the smoke-themed Fumeux fume and Puisque je sui fumeux- a whole collection of songs thought of as “medieval”, but which in fact come from a very wide variety of repertoires, from Italy and France, running from the 13th to the early 15th centuries. Two centuries of splendour, change – and sometimes extravagance, as the secret society of the Fumeurs (the originators of the smokier tracks on this album) were known for their eccentricities – as the smoky pieces here will surely prove. The understanding of death also provides space for musical and poetic interpretations, not exclusively religious ones: some portray death as a kind of endless dream. The “medieval” voices of the Swiss Solazzo Ensemble are accompanied here by a range of instruments from the period: hurdy-gurdies, vielles (no relation to the hurdy-gurdy: the vielle is a primitive medieval ancestor of the viola and violin) and harps.

Tracklist:
01. El Cant de la Sibilla
02. Litanie mortorum
03. Morte m’a sciolt’ amor
04. Estampie I
05. Magdalena degna da Laudare
06. La bella stella
07. Fumeux fume
08. Estampie II
09. Puisque je sui fumeux
10. En seumeillant
11. En ce gracieux tamps
12. Or sus vous dormez trop

Composers:
Firenze, Giovanni da (c.1270-c.1350)
Solage (fl.1370-90)
Stefani, Andrea (c.1375-c.1460)

Download:

mqs.link_SllazzEnsembleEnseumeillant20182496.part1.rar
mqs.link_SllazzEnsembleEnseumeillant20182496.part2.rar