Las Cansos del Coms de Peitieus

Las Cansos del Coms de Peitieus
Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine (1071-1127) - Les chansons du comte de Poitiers (chants de troubadours)
Brice Duisit
Alpha 505

Content:

    Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine
  1. Companhon farai un vers qu'er convinen
  2. Companho tant ai agut d'avols conres

    3. Brice Duisit
  3. Instrumental interlude

    4. Guillaume IX d'Aquitaine
  4. Ben vuelh que sapchan li plusor
  5. Companho non puosc mudar qu'eo non m'effrei
  6. Pus vezem de novelh florir
  7. Mout jauzens me prec en amar
  8. Farai un vers de dreyt nien
  9. Farai chansoneta nueva
  10. Ab la dolchor del temps nouvel
  11. Farai un vers pos mi soneilh
  12. Pos de chantar m'es pres talens

    13. Brice Duisit
  13. Instrumental postlude

Playing time: 55' 50"

Performers:
Brice Duisit (voice, medieval fiddle (aka vièle à archet))

Recording site and date:
Chapelle de l'hôpital Notre-Dame de Bonsecours, Paris, France [05/2002], rel. 2003

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 29/5-116 (may/june 2006)
Goldberg (#-p.): 25-69 (winter 2003)

Comments:
Information from Peter Berg and owned CD.
Since only the first line of one poem (Pos de chantar) has a melody, everything is reconstructed based on philological and literary knowledge of the singer after two years spent in residence at the Fondation Royaumont.
Is it authentic? Who knows, but I have a deep feeling that it is probably one of the best historicaly informed performances of troubadours' songs I have ever heard. Highly recommended.

Another recording by this performer:

La Passion de Clermont
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Brice Duisit
Alpha 520 [CD]

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Pierre-F. Roberge