La quête du Graal, Volume 2

Perceval
La quête du Graal, Volume 2
La Nef - Sylvain Bergeron
Dorian DOR-90271

Contents:

    The Castle of the Graal / Le Château du Graal

  1. Ouverture "Le Cortège"
  2. Tout le jour, sa voie tint
  3. Ami, ne vous affectez
  4. Le cortège
  5. A Slow Air

    6. The Maiden and her Death Love / La Jeune Fille et son Mort

  6. Lasse! Malaureuse
  7. Ha! Perceval, malheureux

    8. The Injured Goose / L'Oie Blessée

  8. Trois gouttes de sang
  9. Bride one breere
  10. Young man's lamentation (solo guitar)
  11. Young man's lamentation

    12. Perceval at the Court of Arthur / Perceval à la Cour d'Arthur

  12. Grande joie fit le Roi
  13. Réjouissance 1-2
  14. La malédiction
  15. 5 ans passèrent
  16. A Scoth measure

    17. Holy Friday with the Hermit / Le Vendredi Saint chez l'Ermite

  17. De Pascha
  18. Doux Sire, bien a 5 ans
  19. Pascha Nostrum

    20. Perceval's Oath / Le Serment de Perceval

  20. Chaconne "Le serment"

Performers:
La Nef [Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor - Perceval), Claire Gignac (contralto, recorders, flute - The Hideous Damsel), Viviane LeBlanc (soprano), Catherine Herrmann (soprano - A Maiden), Rafik Samman (baritone, percussions - The Fisher King, The Hermit), Hughes Saint-Gelais (tenor - A Young man), Betsy MacMillan (bass viol, treble viol), Robin Grenon (harp), Éric Mercier (shawm, penny whistle), Sylvain Bergeron (early guitar, psaltery)] - Sylvain Bergeron, dir.

Playing time: 57' 15"

Recording date:
Église de la Nativité de la Ste-Vierge, Québec, Canada [08-09/2000]

The present program is constructed entirely by La Nef, following the tweflth century story of Perceval and the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes. The original texts (Li contes del graal by Chrétien de Troyes and le Le conte du Graal) were not set to music (or do not survive with music), and so the music has been drawn from a variety of sources, English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh; they include The Cuckoo, Ca' the ewes, to the knowes, Donna Warner's scissors, The Farewell of the men of Aberffraw, O Reilly of Athcarne. Miss MacDermott, The Star of the County Down; original music and arrangements by Sylvain Bergeron, but [8], [14], [20] by Claire Gignac.

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Pierre-F. Roberge