Troubadours / Cantigas

Troubadours / Cantigas de Santa Maria
Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi 2901524/7 (4 CDs; half-price)

Contents:

    Troubadours

  1. Anon (c.1300): A l'entrada del temps clar (voices, vielle, guitar, percussion)
  2. Peirol (1180-c.1225): Quant Amors trobèt partit (voice, percussion)
  3. Anon.: Peire Vidal - Vida et Razos (recitation, recorder, galoubet, bagpipes, percussion)
  4. Peire Vidal (1175-1204): Barons de mon dan convit (tenor, dulcimer, recorder)
  5. Bernart de Ventadorn (b.c.1125): Quand vei la laudeta mover (voice, bûche)
  6. Anon.: Rambaut de Vaqueiras - Vida (recitation, vielle, rubebe)
  7. Rambaut de Vaqueiras (c.1155-1207): Calenda maia (voice, vielle, rubebe, bûche, percussion)
  8. Anon.: La Comtessa de Dia - Vida (recitation)
  9. Comtessa de Dia (fl.c.1160): A Chantar (soprano, vielle, dulcimer, rubebe, percussion)
  10. Anon.: Azalais de Porcairagues - Vida (recitation)
  11. Azalais de Porcairagues (XIIe s.): Ar em al freg temps vengut (soprano, vielle, dulcimer, rubebe, percussion)
  1. Anon.: Bernart de Ventadorn - Vida (recitation, recorder)
  2. Bernart de Ventadorn: Can l'erba (soprano, hurdy-gurdy, recorder, percussion)
  3. Anon.: Folquet de Marselha - Vida (recitation, vielle)
  4. Folquet de Marselha (c.1180-1231): Sitot me soi (soprano, organ)
  5. Anon.: Guilhem de Cabestanh - Vida (recitation, lute)
  6. Anon.: Marcabrun - Vida (recitation, lute)
  7. Marcabrun (fl.c.1150): L'autrier jost'una sebissa (voices, flute, lute, percussion)
  8. Anon (c.1200): Novel amor (lute, recorder, vielle, cornet, dulcimer percussion)
  9. Raimon de Miraval (c.1135-c.1216): Selh que non vol (hurdy-gurdy)
  10. Anon.: Jaufre Rudel - Vida (recitation, recorder)
  11. Jaufre Rudel (fl.c.1150): Lanquan li jorn (voice, hurdy-gurdy)

    Cantigas de Santa Maria

  1. Prologue: Porque Trobar (countertenor, vielle, guitar)
  2. CSM 2: Muito devemos varoes (countertenor, baritone, vielle, guitar, dulcimer, shawm, percussion)
  3. CSM 30: Muito valuera máis (soprano, percussion)
  4. CSM 264: Pois äos seus que ama (soprano, recorder, guitar, percussion)
  5. CSM 5 & 59 (hurdy-gurdy, bells)
  6. CSM 47: Virgen Santa Maria, guárda-nos (baritone, countertenor, bombard, percussion)
  7. CSM 322 (vielle, percussion)
  8. CSM 37 (recorder, percussion)
  9. CSM 340: Virgen, madre gloriosa (soprano, countertenor, baritone, recorder)
  10. CSM 166 (vielle, percussion)
  11. CSM 100: Santa Maria, strela do dia (voices, bagpipes, percussion)
  1. CSM 73 (recorder, percussion)
  2. CSM 13: Assi como Jesu Cristo (voice, hurdy-gurdy, percussion, recorder)
  3. CSM 370: Loemos muit'a Virgen (baritone, bombard, percussion)
  4. CSM 303 (sifflet, bombard, cornet, vielle, rubebe, percussion)
  5. CSM 25 (rabé, guitar, percussion)
  6. CSM 36 (bombard, sifflet, percussion)
  7. CSM 7: Santa Maria amar (countertenor, baritone, vielle, recorder, guitar, dulcimer, percussion)
  8. CSM 320: Santa Maria leva (voice)
  9. CSM 353 (hurdy-gurdy, cistola, percussion)
  10. CSM 207: Se ome fezer (soprano, countertenor, baritone)
  11. CSM 79: Ay, Santa Maria (countertenor, baritone, cistola, psaltery, mandore, percussion)
  12. CSM 230 (bagpipes, percussion)
  13. CSM 290 (rebec, rubebe, percussion)
  14. CSM 190 (shawm, percussion)
  15. CSM 159: Non sofre Santa Maria (voices, bûche, hurdy-gurdy, vielle, shawm, rubebe, dulcimer, percussion)
  16. CSM 100: Santa Maria, strela do dia (voices, bûche, vielle, bombard, bells, percussion)

Performers: Yves Rouquette (recitation), Pilar Figueras (soprano, bagpipes), René Zosso (voice, hurdy-gurdy), Frederick Urrey (tenor), Zeger Vandersteene (countertenor, tenor), Pedro Liendo (baritone), René Clemencic (recorders, galoubet, sifflet, portativ organ, crotales, hochet), Michael Dittrich (vielle, rabé, mandore), András Kecskès (lute, rubebe, guitar, guimbarde), Anne Osnowycz (bûche), Frantisek Pok (bagpipes, cornet, tambour à grelots, crotales, hochet), Alfred Hertel (bombard, shawm), Esmail Vasseghi (hammered dulcimer, drum, tambour-calice, tambour à grelots), Johann Krasser (hammered dulcimer, carillon, drum, tambour à grelots, tabor, castagnettes, darabucca), Djamchid Chemirani (zarb)

Playing time: 253'

Recording dates: November 1976 (Cantigas) & June 1977 (Troubadours)

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 18/5- (May / June 1995)

This is a classic recording which includes spoken recitation of some of the related poetic material, along with a wide array of instrumental support. However, the singing does dominate the overall texture of the set. Although there is a wide array of often inauthentic instruments, the result is one of the dominant artistic achievements in the repertory.

A single CD collection taken from the first two CDs here:

Troubadours
Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi 90396

Some troubadour recordings from Hungary:

Peire Vidal
A troubadour in Hungary
Fraternitas Musicorum - Gergely Sárközy
Hungaroton 12102
Gaucelm Faidit: Songs
Troubadour Music from the 12th-13th Centuries
Kecskés Ensemble - András Kecskés
Hungaroton 12584

See also cantigas citation for the LP.

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Todd M. McComb