Troubadours A-Courtin`

Troubadours A-Courtin`
Medieval Troubadour and Trouvère Song in Singable English Translations
Crown Lighters - Fletcher Collins
Crown Light 561

Contents:

  1. Guiraut de Borneilh: Reis glorios / Glorious King (2 voices, vielle)
  2. Anon: A douz moi de Mai joli / In the sweet month of pretty May (2 voices, rebec, dombek)
  3. Arnaut Daniel: Lo ferm voler qu'el cor m'intra / Sestina (voice)
  4. Guiot de Dijon: Chanterai por mon coraige / I will sing for my courage (voice, lyra)
  5. Richard de Fournival: L'autrier avint en cel autre païs / Some time ago (2 voices)
  6. Anon: Belle Doette (recorder, veille)
  7. Moniot de Paris: Je chevauchoie l'autrier / To the Ladies of Paris (2 voices)
  8. Gace Brulé: Ire d'amors / Bitter Love (voice)
  9. Anon: Ja nun hons pris / Richard's Prison Song (voice, kamenj)
  10. Gaucelm Faidit: Greu chose es que tot lo major dan / Lament on the Death of Richard I (voice)
  11. Bernart de Ventadorn: Tant ai mon cor plen de joia / The Joyful Heart (voice, harp)
  12. Jaufré Rudel: Lanquant li jor / Distant love (voice, recorder, kamenj)
  13. Anon: Gaité de la tor / Watchman on the Tower (2 voices)

Performers: Lawrence Evans (voice), Constance Harrington (voice), Brian Holsopple (voice), Deborah Hunter (voice, harp), Peter Hunter (voice), Tina Chancey (vielle, lyra, rebec, kamenj), Scott Reiss (recorders, dombek)

Playing time: 71'

Recording date: May 2001 (Staunton, VA)

This program features idiomatic English translations of troubadour & trouvère songs, sung in clear English.

An earlier production by the present ensemble:

Visit to the Sepulcher (Visitatio Sepulchri)
An Easter Play from the Twelfth Century
Crown Lighters - Fletcher Collins
Crown Light / Theater Wagon Video (VHS)

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Todd M. McComb