Troubadours & Trouvères

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

Contents:

    Chansons des Troubadours
  1. Guiraud Riquier (fl. 1254-1292): Plus astres no m'es donatz (voice, rebec, hurdy-gurdy, percussion)
  2. Gaucelm Faidit (1172-1203): S'òm pogués partir son voler (voice, organ)
  3. Bernard de Ventadour (fl. 1147-1170): Estat ai òm esperdutz (voice, lute)
  4. Raimon de Miraval (fl. 1191-1229): Bèl m'es qu'ieu chant e coindei (voice, shawm, percussion)
  5. Bérenguer de Palou (fl.c. 1164): Dómna, si totz temps vivia (voice, fiddle)
  6. Aimeric de Peguilhan (fl. 1190-1221): En greu pantais m'a tengut longamen (voice, rebec)
  7. Marcabru (fl. 1130-1149): L'autrier, a l'issida d'abriu (voice, harp, recorder, shawm)
  8. Rigaud de Berbezieux (fl. 1141-1160): Atressi com Persavaus (voice, fiddle, hurdy-gurdy)

    9. Chansons des Trouvères
  9. Gace Brulé (fl. 1159-1213): Ire d'amors qui en mon cuer repaire (voice, fiddle)
  10. Anon: A vous, Tristan, amis verai (voice, harp)
  11. Anon: A l'entrant dou temps novel (voice, fiddle, bagpipes)
  12. Thibaut de Champagne (1201-1253): Deus est ensi conme li pellicanz (voice, recorder)
  13. Anon: Bele Yolanz en ses chambres seoit (voice)
  14. Hue de Saint-Quentin (d.1221): Jerusalem se plaint et li païs (voice, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes)
  15. Anon: Chevauchoie lez un bruel (2 voices, bagpipes)
  16. Blondel de Nesle (fl.c. 1200): A la dolçor d'esté qui renverdoie (voice, fiddle, lute, percussion)

Performers: Dominique Ferran (portatif organ), Marion Chauvineau (hurdy-gurdy), Paul Fustier (hurdy-gurdy, recorder), Gérard Le Vot (voice, harp, percussion, direction), Marcello Ardizzone (fiddle, rebec), Julien Skowron (fiddle, rebec), Jean-Claude Trichard (lute), Patrick Verdié (recorder, shawm, string tambourine), Eric Montbel (bagpipes, shawm), Anne-Marie Lablaude (voice), Elisabeth Renault (voice), Jean-Blaise Roch (voice), Dominique Vellard (voice)

Playing time: 64'

Recording date: August-September 1980 (Troubadours), August-November 1981 (Trouvères); CD re-release of compilation: 1993

Original LPs were Studio SM 30 10.43 & Studio SM 30 11.51.

This is a classic recording, with a compelling depth. Although the sonorities used might not meet with our present expectations, this disc is more than worthwhile based on what it brought to this repertory as well as its classic stature. Although there are many instruments listed, accompaniment is always fairly discreet.

Many of the most famous items in the repertory are presented here.

Another classic program, with a grittier and more "ethnic" presentation:

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

Finally, other recordings by Gérard Le Vot:

Ultima Lacrima
Chants spirituels du Moyen Age, IXe-XIIIe siècles
Gérard Le Vot
Studio SM 2602
Incantation - The Harp and the Swan
Gérard Le Vot
Studio SM 2640

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Todd M. McComb