Le jeu de Robin et Marion

Le jeu de Robin et Marion & autres oeuvres
Adam de la Halle (ca 1250 - 1306 ?)
Ensemble Micrologus
Zig-Zag Territoires ZZT 040602

Contents:

  1. Motet: Aucun se sont loés d'amours / A Dieu commant / Super te
    Rondeau: A Dieu commant amouretes
  2. Motet: Mout me fus gries / Robin m'aime / portare

    Chi commenche li gieus de Robin et Marion qu'Adan fist

    Jeu: Robin m'aime, Robin m'a
    Jeu: Je me repairoie du tournoiement
    Jeu: Hé! Robin
  3. Jeu: Vous perdés vos paine
    Jeu: Bergeronnete sui, mais j'ai
    Jeu: Trairi deluriau
    Jeu: Hui main jou chevauchoie
  4. Jeu: Hé, Robechon!
  5. Jeu: Vous l'orrés bien dire
    Jeu: Bergeronnette, douche baisselete
    Jeu: Robin par l'ame ten pere
  6. Motet: Il n'a en toi / Robin, li malvais / Omnes
    Rondeau: Or est Baiars
  7. Ductia des bergers (adapted from Bergeronnette douche baisselete)
  8. Rondeau: Je muir, je muir d'amourete
    Jeu: J'oi Robin flagoler
  9. Jeu: Hé! Resveille toi, Robin!
    Motet: En mai / L'autre jour / Hé! resveille toi, Robin!
    La septime estampie real
  10. Jeu: Aveuc tele compagniez
    Rondeau: Amours et ma dame aussi
  11. Motet: Hé, Marotele! / En la praërie / Aptat
  12. La Quarte estampie real
  13. La Quinte estampie real
  14. Jeu: J'ai encore un tel pasté
    Jeu: Audigier, dist Raimberge
    Jeu: Venés aprés moi
  15. Chanson: Merchi, Amours
  16. Motet: Entre Adan et Hanikiel / Chiés bien seans / Aptatur

Playing time: 58' 22"

Sources:
[1.1] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566, f. 34v / 35r
[1.2] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566, f. 33r
[2.1] Montpellier, Bibliothèque de l'École de Médecine, ms H 196, f. 292r / 293r & Bamberg, Staatbibliothek, ms Lit. 115, f. 52r
[2.2]-[5], [8.2]-[9.1], [10.1], [14] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566
[6.1] Bamberg, Staatbibliothek, ms Lit. 115, f. 53r
[6.2], [10.2] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566, f. 33v
[8.1] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566, f. 32v
[9.2] Montpellier, Bibliothèque de l'École de Médecine, ms H 196, f. 297r / 298v
[9.3], [12], [13] Paris, BNF, fr. 844
[11] Bamberg, Staatbibliothek, ms Lit. 115, f. 18v
[15] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566, f. 14r/v
[16] Paris, BNF, fr. 25566, f. 36r/v

Performers:
Ensemble Micrologus
Patrizia Bovi (voice, gothic harp, trumpet in G), Adolfo Broegg (lute, gittern), Gabriele Russo (viola, bagpipe, trumpet in F), Leah Stuttard (gothic harp, medieval harp), Goffredo Degli Esposti (small shawm, large shawm, recorder in F, recorder in G, drum, traverse flute, double reed, hornpipe), Sofia Laznik-Galves (voice: Marion), Olivier Marcaud (voice: Robin), Mauro Borgioni (voice: Knight, Gautier), Simone Sorini (voice), François Lazarevic (bagpipe in G, bagpipe in C), Luigi Germini (trumpet in G, trumpet in F), Gabriele Miracle (nakers, castanets, tambourine)

Recording site and date:
S. Antonio, Perugia, Italy [june 2003];
Rel.: 2004

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 517-103 (september 2004)
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 28/6-65 (july/august 2005)
Goldberg (y., #-p.): 2004, 35-80
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

Adam de la Halle (c.1250-?1306) is called "last of trouvères" by some. He composed in a variety of genres, contributing especially to the increasing subtlety of the motet, and the merging of secular themes with academic sensibilities. He was one of the most important forerunners of the great Guillaume de Machaut. The present dramatic work is innovative in a variety of ways, presented here together with some motets and other items.

Adam's real name was apparently Adam le Bossu, and he was also known as Adam d'Arras. Most details of his life are unknown, but the present recording argues for a death date into the 14th century, instead of the late 1280s as previously supposed.

Other recordings of this work:

The World of Robin and Marion
Songs and Motets from the time of Adam de la Halle
Ensemble Anonymus - Claude Bernatchez
Analekta 29816
Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion
Ensemble Perceval - Guy Robert
Arion 68162
Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion
Tonus Peregrinus - Antony Pitts
Naxos 8.557337
Adam de la Halle: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Thomas Binkley
Focus 913
II. Research Period - The Central Middle Ages - Series A/B/C
Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape, dir.
Archiv Produktion 14018 (LP)
The World of Adam de la Halle
Minstrel Music of the 12th and 13th Centuries
The Cambridge Consort - Joel Cohen
Vox "Turnabout" 34439 (LP)

A recording of music illustrating themes on these characters in later eras:

Josquin Des Prés - Robin & Marion, chantres de Picardie
Les Ménestriers Picards
Calliope 9512

Another survey devoted to Adam de la Halle:

Adam de la Halle: D'amoureus cuer voel chanter
Le Jardin de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse Quentin
Zig-Zag Territoires 070401

Finally, this was actually one among a few Micrologus issues to be announced on Opus 111, but never released. In this case, the catalog number was given as Opus 111 OPS 30-283, but that number was subsequently (re-)used as a Vivaldi recording, and so is not included in the header of this file. The others which were announced similarly:

The Tree and the Stone
Micrologus
Opus 111 30-188
Codice Franco - Cipriota No. 1
Micrologus
Opus 111 30-203

Perhaps these will also appear someday. It should also be noted that the recording date of the present release seems to preclude it having been recorded by Opus 111, although a recording of the same title was announced in Diapason.

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Todd M. McComb