The Love Songs of Jehan de Lescurel Ensemble Céladon & Paulin Bündgen

• 1 Amour, voules vous acorder 02:56
• 2 A vous, douce debonnaire 02:45
• 3 Amours, aus vrais cuers commune 03:07
• 4 Amours, cent mille mercyz 02:30
• 5 Amours, que vous ai meffait 03:38
• 6 Abundance de felonie 02:30
• 7 Amours, trop vous doi cherir 01:04
• 8 Bietris est mes delis 00:59
• 9 Bien se lace 01:45
• 10 Bonne amour me rent 02:22
• 11 Bontes, sen, valours et pris 03:10
• 12 Belle et noble, a bonne estrainne 01:34
• 13 Bien se peust apercevoir 01:39
• 14 Belle, com loiaus amans 04:50
• 15 Bonnement m'agree 01:35
• 16 Comment que pour l'eloignance 04:16
• 17 De gracieuse dame amer 01:45
• 18 De la grant joie d'amours 02:45
• 19 Douce amour, confortez moi 05:43
• 20 Dame, vo regars m'ont mis en la voie 03:16
• 21 D'amour qui n'est bien celee 03:04
• 22 Dame gracieuse et belle 02:23
• 23 Dame, par vo dous regart 02:36
• 24 Douce dame, je vous pri 01:23
• 25 Douce desirree 01:09
• 26 Dame, si vous vient a gre 01:57
• 27 Diex, quant la verrai 01:42
• 28 Dis tans plus qu'il ne faudroit flours 05:00
• 29 Fi, mesdisan esragie 00:56
• 30 Guilleurs me font mout souvent 01:09
• 31 Gracieusette 00:47
• Total Runtime 01:16:15

Info for The Love Songs of Jehan de Lescurel

Many mysteries surround the life of Jehan de Lescurel, beginning with his date of birth. Probably the son of middle-class Parisians, cleric, musician and poet, he was most likely trained at Notre-Dame. His oeuvre consists of some thirty songs written in the waning tradition of the art of the Parisian troubadours and even broaches polyphony. In them, he describes several amorous situations, sometimes depicting the emotions of the rejected suitor, sometimes those of the beautiful misunderstood lady, in a game of love and feelings that range from nostalgia to ecstasy, and not excluding humour. In this complete recording, the three voices of Céladon are backed up by richly coloured instruments.

Ensemble Céladon
Paulin Bündgen, direction

Paulin Bündgen
sings with the ensembles Doulce Mémoire, Akadêmia, Clématis, le Concert de l'Hostel-Dieu, Vox Luminis, Elyma, le Concert Spirituel, les Traversées Baroques... in Europe (France, UK, Germany, Polland, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Belgium, Monaco, Croatia, Lativa, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands...), Russia, Middle-West (Morocco, Turquey, Israël), USA (Miami) and Asia (Taïwan).

He has sang in prestigious festivals: Ambronay, Beaune, Utrecht, Innsbruck, la Chaise-Dieu, the Flanders festival, Vézelay... He founded his own group in 1999, l'ensemble Céladon, whom with he regularly sings in France and abroad. ​

In opera, Paulin Bündgen has sung the parts of Pastore in Monteverdi's Orfeo, Mercurio in Landi's La Morte d'Orfeo, Cirilla in Cavalli's Gli Amori di Dafne e Appollo, Endimione in Cavalli's la Calisto, Ottone in l’Incoronazione di Poppea by Monteverdi, in the prestigious Opera Houses of Versailles, le Châtelet, la Cité de la Musique, Metz's Arsenal, Rennes, Massy, Royal Opera House in Namur, Grand Théâtre de Reims, Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, London's English National Opera.

He has sang under the direction of conductors Gabriel Garrido, Paul Agnew, Jean Tubéry, Jérôme Corréas, Leonardo Garcia-Alarcón, Françoise Lasserre, Hervé Niquet, and has been staged by Christophe Rauck, Alain Perroux, Pierre-Alain Four.

Paulin Bündgen is regularly invited to sing in the main capitals of the world: Paris, Moscow, Geneva, London, Monaco, Bruxelles, Lisbon, Praga, Taïpei, Warsow, Riga, Rome, Istanbul... ​

His curiosity drove him to sing in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's dance-show Mea Culpa, with Turkish musician Kudsi Erguner or beside folk singer Kyrie Kristmanson.

He is also very keen on contemporary music and has performed works (including first performances) by Jacopo Baboni-Schilingi, Pierre-Adrien Charpy, Régis Campo, Pierre Bartholomée... He worked in close collaboration with the composer Jean-Philippe Goude and recorded the album Aux Solitudes with him. He also is the author of the album of electronic music Étrange Septembre, published in 2007.

The world famous composer Michael Nyman wrote for him and l'ensemble Céladon in 2016.

He recorded more than thirty CDs, covering a wide repertoire going from medieval songs to contemporary music.

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