Contre le Temps
The Kiss of the Rose
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Recorded live at the Pieterskerk Utrecht, 3 September 2025.
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About this concert
The four singers of Contre le Temps delve into the world of 14th-century courtly love. With poetry and music from Le Roman de la Rose and Guillaume de Machaut's Remède de Fortune, a quest for the unattainable rose unfolds. With the power of polyphonic songs and monodic poems, the quartet reveals the fiery desire and mysterious allure of medieval love.
Programme
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The Springtime
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Anonymous
Venez oïr vrais amoureus
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Guillaume de Machaut
Qui n’aroit autre deport
c1300-1377 -
Anonymous
Contre le Temps
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Entry into the Dream
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Egidius de Francia
Rose et lis ay veu
(from: Chantilly Codex, c1350-1400, f. 22)14th century -
Guillaume Dufay
Je me complains
1397-1474 -
The Wonders in the Garden
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Guillaume de Machaut
Et pour ce engendree s’est douche pensee
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Demos le Grant
Se je chant mains que ne suel
(from: Ivrea Codex, f. 52v)d. 1352 -
Cupid and the rose
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Anonymous
En remirant vo douce portraiture
(from: MS B 1328, Le Labo, Cambrai, f. 15)13th/14th century -
Guillaume de Machaut
Fors tant, qu’en aucune manière
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Anonymous
Toujours servir
(from: MS J.II.9, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, Turin, f.158v)15th century -
The Pain of the Lover
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Anonymous
Qui n’a le cuer
(from: MS J.II.9)15th century -
Guillaume de Machaut
Amour que j’en pri
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Guillaume le Rouge
Se je fais dueil, three-voice virelai
1385-1450 -
Guillaume de Machaut
Et pour ce sans nul descort
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Guillaume Dufay
Ma belle dame souveraine
Musicians
- Karin Weston, Cécile Walch soprano
- Amy Farnell, Julia Marty mezzo-soprano
About the performers
The members of vocal ensemble Contre le Temps met while studying at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Contre le Temps performs a variety of musical genres, from the 11th to the 16th century, combining their individual and collective musical sensitivity with historically informed knowledge from the sources of that time. Deriving its name from two historical vocal works, Contre le Temps refers to the ensemble's desire to perform this eternal music in an original and timeless way.