Frye, Walter
1 Ave regina celorum [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 1]
2 Ou beau chastel est prisonnier mon cueur [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 40] (arr. for 2 voices and vielle)
Barbingant
3 Au travail suis que peu de gens croiroient [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 23]
Ockeghem, Johannes
4 Ma maistresse et ma plus qu'aultre amye [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 25] (arr. for vielle, viola d'arco and lute)
5 Par malle bouche la cruelle [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 32] (arr. for voice, vielle and viola d'arco)
Lewon, Marc - Arranger
6 Par malle bouche la cruelle [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 32] (arr. M. Lewon for gittern, vielle and viola d'arco)
7 Donnez l'aumosne, chiere dame [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 31] (arr. for 6 voices, vielle, viola d'arco and lute)
8 Tousdis vous voit mon souvenir [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 30] (arr. for 2 voices and lute)
9 En atendant vostre venue [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 44] (arr. for voice, vielle and viola d'arco)
10 Escu d'ennuy, semé de plours [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 33] (arr. M. Lewon for voice and lute)
11 J'ay des semblans tant que je vueil [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 49] (arr. for voice, viola d'arco and lute)
Agricola, Alexander
12 Si vous voullez que je vous ame [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 34] (arr. for voice, vielle, viola d'arco and lute)
Binchois, Gilles de Bins dit
13 Comme femme desconfortée [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 20]
14 Vraiz amans pour Dieu suppliez [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 48] (arr. for 2 voices and viola d'arco)
Busnois, Antoine
Caron, Firminus
15 Cent mil escuz quant je vouldroye [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 19] (arr. for voice, renaissance violin and lute)
16 Henri Phlippet, le vert me fais porter [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 50] (arr. for voice, viola d'arco and lute)
Busnois, Antoine
17 Est il mercy de quoy l'on sceust finer [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 42] (arr. for vielle, viola d'arco and lute)
18 Hélas mon cueur, tu m'occiras [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 13] (arr. for 2 voices and lute)
19 Oublie, oublie [Leuven Chansonnier, Loire Valley, 1470s, LC 18] (arr. for 6 voices, vielle, viola d'arco and lute)
The discovery in 2015 of a 15th-century parchment chansonnier still in its original binding was made still more startling because it contained twelve previously unknown, anonymous chansons. Most are rondeaus, and they range from the uncomplicated to the refined and elaborate; many bear musical indications that they are the work of the greatest composers of the period. In this recording they have been contextualised with other known songs but in the variant versions found in Leuven. As on their recording of the Chansonnier Cordiforme (on 8.573325), Ensemble Leones employs a range of performance possibilities, from a cappella ensemble to a mixture of instruments and voices.