Troubadours: Riquier

Le Troubadour: Guiraut Riquier

Katia Caré / Gérard Zuchetto / Ensemble Perceval - Guy Robert
Arion 68315

Contents:

1. Plus astres no m'es donatz (voice, rebec, guitar, psaltery, percussion)
2. Aissi quon es sobronrada (voice, fiddle, harp, psaltery)
3. S'ieu ja trobat non agues (voice, rebec, lute, psaltery, percussion)
4. Mentaugutz (voice, guitar, 2 fiddles, percussion)
5. Ongan no cugey chantar (voice, flute, lute, rebec. psaltery, percussion)
6. Qui's tolgues (voice, lute, rebec)
7. Creire m'an fag mey dezir (voice, fiddle, harp, psaltery, percussion)
8. Ples de tristor, marritz e doloiros (voice, harp)

Performers: Gérard Zuchetto (voice, flute), Katia Caré (voice), Guy Robert (lute, "saracen" guitar, harp), Jean-Pierre Dubuquoy (rebec, fiddle), Patrice Brient (psaltery, fiddle), Jacques Khoudir (percussion)

Playing time: 73'

Recording date: August 1994

Guiraut Riquier (c.1230-c.1295) was the last major Occitan poet, contemporary of Adam de la Halle, and last of the Troubadours. He spent some time at the court of King Alfonso X in Spain, but was apparently unappreciated in his native land.

Other recordings devoted to Guiraut Riquier:

The Last of the Troubadours

The Art & Times of Guiraut Riquier

Martin Best Medieval Ensemble
Nimbus 5261

Guiraut Riquier et la Cour d'Alphonse X le Sage

La Compagnie Médiévale
Pierre Vérany 789011

Guiraut Riquier

Occitan Trob'Art Concept
Troubadours Art Ensemble - Gérard Zuchetto
Troba Vox 004

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