“De plus en plus se renouvelle“, Gilles Binchois | TENET Vocal Artists
“De plus en plus se renouvelle“, Gilles Binchois (c. 1400–1460)
The Sounds of Time: Music of the Burgundians
May 20, 2016
St. Peter’s Church, NYC
Jolle Greenleaf, soprano
Robert Mealy, vielle
Dongmyung Ahn, vielle
Priscilla Herreid, winds
Translation:
Increasingly it renews itself,
my sweet lady, fair and lovely,
my desire to see you;
from it springs my very great need to hear news from you.
Don’t think I’m making this up, for you’re always the one
I want to obey in everything.
Increasingly...
Alas, if you were cruel to me
I would have such anguish in my heart that I’d really want to to die;
but even then I would be serving you by assenting to your reproach.
Increasingly...