Joan of Arc: Battles & Prisons

Jeanne d'Arc: Batailles & Prisons – Joan of Arc: Battles & Prisons

L'Épopée d'une Visionnaire – The Epic Tale of a Visionary
La Capella Reial / Hespèrion XXI - Jordi Savall
Alia Vox AVSA9891 A+B [SACD-Hx2]

Contents

CD 1

PROLOGUE

1. Music: "Ballade de la Pucelle" (instrumental) Jordi Savall after L'Homme armé, an Anonymous 15th century melody

In praise of the maid

2. Music: "L'Appel", Le départ, "Les Voix" Jordi Savall after Guillaume Dufay

Birth of Joan and origins of the conflict

3. Music: Rondeau: "Ce jour de l'an" Jordi Savall after Guillaume Dufay
4. Music: Drums & Ballad "Ce jour le doibt" Jordi Savall after Guillaume Dufay
5. Music: Fanfare: "Dit le Burguygnon" after Anonymous 15th century Mss.
6. Music: Bells & "Adoramus te" after Anonymous 15th century Mss.
7. Music: Rondeau "Fortune, par ta cruaulté" after Johannes Vincenet (ca. 1420)

I. THE VOICES

8. Music: "The Voices: Veni Sancte spiritus" Guillaume Dufay (ca. 1400-1474)
9. Text
10. Music: Fanfares and drums "Dit le Bourguignon" after Anonymous Mss.
11. Music: "Saltarello" after Anonymous 15th century Mss.

II. JOURNEY TO CHINON AND MEETING WITH THE KING

12. Music: "Le départ" Jordi Savall
13. Text
14. Music: "Le départ" Jordi Savall
15. Music: "La Pucelle" (instrumental) Jordi Savall after L'Homme armé, Anonymous 15th century melody
16. Music: "Les Voix" after Guillaume Dufay
17. Music: "La Pucelle"
18. Music: "Vive le Roy" Josquin Desprez
19. Text
20. Music: Rondeau "La Trémouille" Jordi Savall
21. Music: Drum and Fanfare
22. Music: "Veni Creator Spiritus" after Anonymous VIII century

III. THE LIBERATION OF ORLEANS

23. Music: Drums
24. Music: "Battle of Orleans" Jordi Savall
25. Music: "La Pucelle"
26. Music: "L'Homme armé" after Sanctus from the Mass by Guillaume Dufay & Tambours
27. Music: "Fanfare du Sacre" Jordi Savall
28. Music: Introduction "D'Orléans à Reims" Jordi Savall

IV. THE CORONATION OF CHARLES VII

29. Music: Bells &"Ballade de la Pucelle" (instrumental) Jordi Savall
30. Music: Introduction to Rondeau & Rondeau "Ce jour de l'an" after Guillaume Dufay
    Bells
31. Music: "Prayer III" Fantaisie after Anonymous15th century
32. Music: "Marche Royale pour le Sacre" Jordi Savall
33. Music: "Te Deum" Jordi Savall
34. Music: "Marche Royale pour l'Onction" Jordi Savall
35. Music: "Les Voix" Jordi Savall after Guillaume Dufay

Music: Guillaume Dufay "Messe de l'Homme armé"

36. Sanctus
37. Osanna
38. Osanna II
39. Music: "Marche Royale pour l'Onction" Jordi Savall
40. Music: "Sonnerie Royale pour la fin du Sacre" Jordi Savall

CD 2

V. BATTLES AND PRISONS

41. Music: Fanfares & Drums / Drums & Fanfares
42. Music: "Bataille entre Français et Anglais" Jordi Savall
43. Text
44. Music: "Fortuna desperata" Josquin Desprez
45. Text
46. Music: "Chiave, chiave" Anonymous (CMM 131)
47. Music: "Ballade de la Pucelle" Improvisation
48. Music: "Dit le Bourguignon" after Anonymous 15th century Mss.
49. Music: "Ballade de la Pucelle" Improvisation

VI. THE SOLITUDES – THE TRIAL

50. Music: "Fortune par ta cruauté" after Johannes Vincenet (ca. 1420)
51. Music: "La Pucelle" (Fragments)
52. Music: "Les Solitudes Prière II" after Adoramus Te, Anonymous
53. Music: Drums
54. Music: "Le départ" Jordi Savall
55. Text
56. Music: "Planctus Jehanne" Jordi Savall after Anonymous 15th century XV.

VII. ACCUSATION, ABJURATION AND VERDICT

57. Music: Bells (Inquisition) ‐ "La Pucelle"
58. Music: Prayer "Fortune par ta cruauté" after Johannes Vincenet (ca. 1420)
59. Text
60. Music: Bells (Inquisition) / "Adoramus te"
61. Music: "Les Voix" after Guillaume Dufay

VIII. RELAPSE TRIAL, CONDEMNATION AND EXECUTION

62. Music: Drums
63. Music: Prayer "Adoramus te Domine" Anonymous (CMM4)
64. Music: "Fanfare de l'Inquisition" Jordi Savall
65. Music: Drums
    Music: "Adoramus te"
    Music: Drums
66. Music: "Planctus Jehanne" Jordi Savall after 15th century Mss.
67. Music: Drums
    Music: "Sonnerie Royale pour la fin de la Guerre" Jordi Savall

CONCLUSION

68. Music: Motet-Chanson: "Rejois toy terre de France/Vivat Rex in eternam" (Anonymous, Paris, 15th century)
69. Music: "Le départ"
70. Music: Hymn "Patres nostri peccaverunt" Johannes Cornago (CMM 2)
71. Music: "Miserere Nostri" after 15th century MS
72. Music: "Les Voix: Veni Sancte Spiritus"
73. Music: "Ballade de la Pucelle" Jordi Savall after l'homme armé and Anonymous 15th century lyrics
74. Text
75. Music: "Le départ" Jordi Savall

Performers:
Hespèrion XX
Pedro Memelsdorff (flute), Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornetto), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), Sergi Casadement (viola da gamba), Lorenz Duftschmidt (viola da gamba), Guy Ferber (trumpet), Roland Callmar (trumpet), Jean-Pierre Canihac (trumpet), Alfredo Bernardini (shawm), Béatrice Delpierre (shawm), Josep Borràs (bombard), Harry Ries (sackbut), Daniel Lassalle (sackbut), Thierry Durand (sackbut), Rolf Lislevand (lute), Francis Biggi (lute), Armin Janda (lute), Michael Behringer (organ), Pedro Estevan (percussions, drums, bells), Michèle Claude (percussions, drums, bells), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
Hespèrion XXI
Jean-Pierre Canihac (cornetto), Béatrice Delpierre (shawm), M. Vanderbrooke (shawm), Daniel Lassalle (sackbut), Frederich Lucchi (sackbut), Harry Ries (sackbut), Josep Borràs (bombard), Jean-Noël Catrice (bombard), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), Sergi Casadement (viola da gamba), Imke David (viola da gamba), Lorenz Duftschmidt (viola da gamba), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Luca Guglielmi (organ), Pedro Estevan (drums), Dimitri Psonis (drums)
Narrators
Louise Moaty (Joan of Arc), René Zosso (various roles)
Soloists
Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Kai Wessel (counter-tenor)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Elisabetta Tiso (soprano), Raphaële Kennedy (soprano), Alexandrina Polo (soprano), Laurence Bonnal (counter-tenor), Paolo Costa (counter-tenor), Jean-Louis Comoretto (counter-tenor), Jean-Yves Guerry (counter-tenor), Lambert Climent (tenor), Pedro Ormazabal (tenor), Lluis Vilamajó (tenor), Josep Cabré (bass), Jordi Ricart (bass), Yves Bergé (bass), Daniele Carnovich (bass)
David Sagastume (counter-tenor), José Hernàndez Pastor (counter-tenor), Lluis Vilamajó (tenor), Francesc Garrigosa (tenor), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Josep Ramon Olivé (baritone), Daniele Carnovich (bass), Xavier Pagès (bass)
Jordi Savall, dir.

Playing time: 67' 39" + 66' 54" = 2h 14' 33"

Excerpts:
[various tracks] Travelling K 1006 [CD] Jeanne la Pucelle (1993)

Recording site and date:
L'Arsenal, Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Metz [09/1993]
Colegiata de Cardona, Catalunya, Spain [12/2011];
Rel.: 06/2012

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 605-126 (September 2012)

Comments:
Information from CD. This double CD is a partial compilation of musical recording included in the two 3 hours films (1993) by Jacques Rivette and additional material recorded in 2011.

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