Richard Coeur-de-Lion

Richard Coeur de Lion
Troubadours et trouvères
Alla Francesca
Opus 111 30-170

Contents:

  1. Anon: Lai du Chèvrefeuille (2 voices, flute, cittern, harp)
  2. Anon: L'autrier m'en aloie (3-holed flute, harp, cittern, drum)
  3. Richard Coeur-de-Lion: Ja nuns hons pris (voice, bagpipe)
  4. Guiot de Dijon: Chanterai por mon coraige (voice)
  5. Chastelain de Couci: Li nouviautz tanz (voice, double pipe, cymbals)
  6. Anon: Vocis tripudio (bagpipe, tambourine)
  7. Chastelain de Couci: A vous, Amours (2 voices, cittern, harp)
  8. Anon: Canticum exercuit (recorder, cittern)
    Anon: Canticum letitie (cittern, harp, recorder)
  9. Conon de Béthune: Bien me deüsse targier (voice, bamboo flute, fiddle, harp)
  10. Gace Brulé: Quant voi la flour boutener (six-holed flute, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy)
  11. Anon: Redit etas aurea (2 voices, frame drum)
  12. Anon: Christus patris gratie (3-holed flute, rebec, harp, drum)
    Anon: Vineam meam plantavi (rebec, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipe)
    Anon: Offerat ecclesia (bagpipe, rebec, hurdy-gurdy)
  13. Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta (voice, flute, fiddle)
  14. Gaucelm Faidit: Fortz chausa est (2 voices)

Performers: Emmanuel Bonnardot (voice, fiddle, rebec, cittern), Raphaël Boulay (voice), Pierre Hamon (flute, three-holed pipe, bagpipes, double pipe, recorder, bamboo flute, six-holed pipe, drum), Brigitte Lesne (voice, harp, hurdy-gurdy, frame drum, small cymbals, tambourine)

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: March 1996

Compilation:
Naïve NC 40011 [CDx2 + book] Richard Coeur de Lion – Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame

Excerpts:
[8], [11]-[12] Ambroisie AM 195 [CD] Le Mystère des Templiers

This program is built around pieces associated with Richard Plantagenet (1157-1199), including the famous conductus for his coronation (track #11).

Sources:
[1] Ms T (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 12615 f.66 - "Manuscrit de Noailles"
[2] Ms K (Paris, Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, 5198 p.342
[3] Ms O (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 846 f.62v - "Chansonnier Cangé")
[4] Ms O (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 846 f.28 - "Chansonnier Cangé")
[5] Ms M (aka W)(Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 844 f.53v - "Chansonnier du Roy")
[6] Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, ms Pluteo 29,1 f.465v
[7] Ms O (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 846 f.4v - "Chansonnier Cangé")
[8a] Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, ms 1206 f.179
[8b] Wolfenbüttel, Herzog-August Bibliothek, ms 1206 f.190v
[9] Ms O (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 846 f.18 - "Chansonnier Cangé")
[10] Ms O (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr 846 f.108v - "Chansonnier Cangé")
[11] Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, ms Pluteo 29,1 f.318v
[12a] Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, ms Pluteo 29,1 f.465v
[12b] Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, ms Pluteo 29,1 f.466v
[12c] Florence, Biblioteca Mediceo-Laurenziana, ms Pluteo 29,1 f.467v
[13] Ms G (Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana R 71 superiore f.10)
[14] Ms. X (aka U) (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fr. 20050 f.57r - "Chansonnier de Saint-Germain-des-Prés")

The sonorities here are particularly rich, and the phrasing and articulation of the melodies & lyrics is quite compelling.

A classic rendition which forms the basis for much of the interpretive stance of the present program:

Troubadours & Trouvères
Gérard Le Vot, et al.
Studio SM 12 21.75

And a recording in somewhat similar style, devoted to some of the earliest surviving trouvère & troubadour songs, taken from a single manuscript:

Manuscript du Roi
Ensemble Perceval - Guy Robert
Arion 68225

Some other programs on the Crusader theme:

Music of the Crusades
The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow
London Jubilee (Decca Serenata) 430 264
Crusaders in nomine domini
Estampie / Münchner Ensemble für frühe Musik - Michael Popp
Christophorus 77183
La Chanson de Guillaume
Lai, Chansons guerrières et politiques (1188-1250)
Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber
Studio SM 2756
Croisade
Musiques vocales et instrumentales aux temps des croisades
La Compagnie Médiévale / Le Concert dans l'Oeuf / L'Ensemble Witiza
Solstice 155
The Cross Of Red
Music of Love and War from the Time of the Crusades
New Orleans Musica da Camera
Centaur 2373
Deus ad un turnei enpris
Songs from the crusades
Oliphant
Alba Records 152
Journey to Jerusalem
Ensemble Renaissance
Al Segno 2011

Programs in a completely different style centered on Richard the Lionheart:

Music for the Lion-Hearted King
Gothic Voices - Christopher Page
Hyperion 66336
Music from the time of Richard III
Yorks Waits
Saydisc 364

Finally, a related recording by the presented ensemble, devoted to the cycle on the Virgin by Gautier de Coinci (1177-1236):

Gautier de Coincy
Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame
Alla Francesca
Opus 111 30-146

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Todd M. McComb