Alkemie - Awesome is This Place - La belle se siet - Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1397-1474)

From: AWESOME IS THIS PLACE: The Music of Guillaume Dufay
This program presents creative arrangements of favorite works by Guillaume Dufay - considered the foremost European composer by his 15th-century contemporaries - alongside the compositions of modern medieval luminary Shira Kammen. Though written centuries ago, many of the texts on this program have a strong sense of place recognizable to us today - like a beloved home, a garden, or a place of spiritual worship.
ALKEMIE
Tracy Cowart (voice)
Ben Matus (voice)
David McCormick (vielle)
Elena Mullins (voice)
Sian Ricketts (voice, recorders, douçaines)
Niccolo Seligman (vielle)
with
Shira Kammen (vielle)
Corey Shotwell (voice)
Audio/Video Production - Charles Mueller
Assistant Engineer - Edwin Huet
Producer - Ellie Sutherland
La belle se siet au piet de la tour,
Qui pleure et souspire et mainne grant doulour.
Son pere lui demande: Fille qu'avez vous?
Volez vous mari, ou volez vous seignour?
Je ne veul mari, je ne veul seignour;
Je veul le mien ami, qui pourist en la tour.
Et par Dieu, belle fille, a celui faudrés vous,
Car il sara pendu demain au point du jour.
Et pere, s'on le pent, enfouyés moy desous,
Si diront les gens: vecy loyaus amours.
The beautiful lady sits at the foot of the tower,
Weeping and sighing, and is very sad.
Her father asks her, "Daughter, what's wrong?
Do you want a husband, or do you want a Lord?"
"I don't want a husband, I don't want a Lord,
I want my own love, who is rotting in the tower."
"By God, fair daughter, you won't get him,
For he will be hung tomorrow at dawn."
"Wee father, if they hang him, bury me next to him,
So people will say: here is true love."
~Translation by David Wyatt (reprinted with permission from the LiederNet Archive)
This concert was filmed March 11, 2023 at Oktaven Audio, Mt Vernon, NY.
Alkemie's NYC Concerts are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
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[@SirZorgulon]

Beautiful! I really enjoy your sound

[@allanpulker2120]

"He will be hanged ...." not "he will be hung."

[@Alkemie]

The video titles are burned in, but we've corrected this in the program for this concert - thank you for the note.

[@piecookies3488]

Always a treat when u guys upload!!! 😁

[@desPrez188]

This is quite perfect.

[@MisterPerfect-p6j]

Underrated