Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion

Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion: Tonus Peregrinus - Antony Pitts
Naxos 8.557337

Robins m'aime (Marion)
Je me repairoie (Knight)
Hé Robin (Marion)
...when along comes a Knight on the lookout...
Vous perdés vos paine (Marion)
...but Marion means no when she says so...
Bergeronnete sui (Marion)
...and the Knight leaves empty-handed.
Trairi deluriau (Marion + Knight)
Rondeau II: Li dous regars
Rondeau XV: Tant con je vivrai

Scene II: Robin makes his way to Marion

Hé Robechon leure leure va (Marion + Robin)
...and tastes some of her fare...
Vous l'orrés bien dire (Robin)
...and tests her fidelity...
Bergeronnete douche baisselete (Robin + Marion)
...and she tests her dancing prowess...
Robin par l'ame (Marion + Robin)
...and Robin goes for her reinforcements...
...his manly cousins.
Motet II: De ma Dame / Dieus / Omnes

Scene III

Robin rounds up guests for the party.
Motet: Mout / Robins m'aime / Portare

Scene IV

The Knight returns to find his bird...
J'oi Robin flagoler (Marion)
...beats up Robin and kidnaps Marion...
Hé resveille toi Robin (Gautier li Testus)
...but Robin is aroused to the point of valour.
Rondeau III: Hareu

Scene V

Marion sees off the Knight, her friends roll up...
Aveuc tele compaignie (tous)
...and it's time for all kinds of party games.

Scene VI

Robin rescues a sheep, declares his love...
J'ai encore un tel pasté (Robin)
...and promises some delicacies of his own...
Que jou ai un tel capon
...when he returns.
Motet I: A Dieu / Adam / Super

Scene VII

Robin brings a pair of horns to the party
Audigier (Gautiers li Testus)
...gets over his jealousy and gets everyone on their feet..
Venés apres moi (Robin et al.)
Motet: Mout me fu grief il departir / Robins m'aime / Portare

Performers:
Tonus Peregrinus
Mary Remnant (bells, drum, fiddle, gittern/citole, harp, pipe and tabor, rebec, shawm, symphony, copy of Whitecastle pipe), John Crook (« Adam li Bochus/Pilgrim/narrator », voices), Alexander Hickey (« Aubert li Chevaliers/Sir Albert » tenor), Richard Eteson (« Beaudons/Baldwin » coconuts, tenor), Francis Brett (« Gautiers li testus/Walter the Mule » bass), Joanna Forbes (« Huars/Howard » soprano), Kathryn Oswald (« Marion » alto), Rebecca Hickey (« Péronelle » soprano), Alexander L'Estrange (« Robin » tambourine, counter-tenor) , Antony Pitts (bagpipe drone, copy of Billingsgate trumpet, cowhorn, portative organ, tambourine)
Antony Pitts, dir.

Playing time: 74' 26"

Recording site and date:
[1]-[22], [24]-[45] Sedgwick Park, West Sussex, UK [10, 11/2003];
[23] Finchcocks, Goudhurst, Kent, UK [09/2004];
Rel.: 2006

Excerpts:
[3], [45] Naxos 8.503192 [CD] Time of the Templars

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 30/1-41 (September/october 2006)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 1006-86 (june 2006)

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Pierre-F. Roberge

Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion

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