Guillaume Dufay:
Se le face ay pale
Or me veult bien esperance
Belle, veulliés moy retenir
Le Serviteur hault guerdonné

John Bendygham:
O rosa bella
Le Serviteur (Superno nunc emittitur)

Gilles Binchois:
Les tres doulx ieux du viaire ma dame
Dueil angoisseus
Files a marier ne vous mariez ja

Anon.:
A cheval, tout homme, a cheval (arr. E. Gutteridge)
Reveillez vous piccars (arr. E. Gutteridge)
Gardez le trait de la fenestre
De quan qu'on peut belle et bonne estrener
Anxci bon youre
La Spagna
Lome arme

Johannes Ciconia:
Le ray au soleyl

Baude Cordier:
Tout par compas suy composes

Guillaume de Machaut:
Aymi! dame de valour/Je vivroie liement (arr. E. Baines & E. Gutteridge)

Solage:
Corps femenin par vertu

Robert Morton:
Le Souvenir de vous me tue mon seul bien
Lom arme

Francesco Landini:
Adiu, adiu dous dame

Enrique:
Pues serviçio vos desplaze/Cançión contrahecha Pues serviçio vos desplaze, letra y punto

Josquin Desprez:
Lomme arme

'Of arms and a woman' is a chronicle of love, loss, chivalry and memory built around the late medieval wind music of Dufay, Binchois, Ciconia, Landini and Machaut, performed on shawms, slide trumpet, recorders, sackbut, bagpipes and percussion.

The album is inspired by the writing of Christine de Pisan, whose work touched on every aspect of courtly life, from romantic poetry to military strategy and feminist critiques of the position of women in society. It includes rousing calls to battle, arresting love songs, and the heartbreakingly beautiful Dueil angoisseux, the only contemporary musical setting of any of de Pisan’s poems.

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Recorded in St Mary's Church, Stoke-by-Nayland, UK, 24-27 May 2015.