La tragédie cathare

Montségur
La tragédie cathare
La Nef - Sylvain Bergeron
Dorian 90243

Contents:

  1. Ouverture "Reis Gloriós" (arrangement)

    2. El Fin'Amors

  2. Perotin: Beata viscera
  3. La Tierche Estampie Roial
  4. Bernard de Ventadour: Quand vey la lauzeta mover
  5. Raimon de Miravel: Lonc tems ai / Arnaut Daniel: Lo ferm voler (instrumental arrangement)

    6. Le Fléau

  6. Alle Psalite / Reis Gloriós (arrangement)
  7. Cantiga 1: Des Oge mais
  8. La Quarte Estampie Royal
  9. Condesa de Dia: A chantar m'èr
  10. La Septime Estampie Real
  11. La Seconde Estampie Royal
  12. C'est la Fins / La Quinte Estampie Real
  13. Peire Vidal & Peire Cardenal: Falsedatz et desmezura (arrangement)

    14. Consolamentum

  14. Anon. Lyons: Benedicite Parcite Nobis (narration, song)
  15. Cantiga 340: Virgen, madre gloriósa
  16. Guirault Riquier: Jhesu Crist
  17. Guirault de Borneil: Reis Gloriós

    18. Feux

  18. Guillame d'Amiens: Veni Sancte Spiritus (arrangement)

Performers: Sylvain Bergeron (oud, psaltery, bells, voice), Claire Gignac (voice, recorders), Viviane LeBlanc (voice, psaltery), Éric Mercier (shawm, bagpipes), Vincent Dhavernas (percussion), Angèle Laberge (voice, harp), Isabelle Marchand (vielle, voice), Rafik Samman (voice, percussion, oud)

Playing time: 69'

Recording date: May 1996

This is a dramatic recital, using troubadour and other 13th century music to illustrate some conceptual scenes from the Crusade against the Cathars (1209-1255). The Cathars were a well-entrenched heretical Christian sect in the South of France, advocating such things as the spiritual equality of man & woman. Many people have made some small links between the Cathars and the emergent troubadour repertory. If one is to designate their theology as a major motivation for the love poetry of the troubadours, one must keep well in mind that these poems are formally similar to classical Latin poems by such writers as Ovid.

Other recordings by the present ensemble:

Music for Joan the Mad
Spain 1479-1555
La Nef - Sylvain Bergeron
Dorian Discovery 80128
The Garden of Earthly Delights
La Nef - Sylvain Bergeron
Dorian Discovery 80135
Perceval
La quête du Graal, Volume 1
La Nef - Sylvain Bergeron
Dorian 90271
Musiques des Montagnes
La Nef
Atma Classique 22390
Dowland in Dublin
Michael Slattery / La Nef
Atma Classique 22650

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Todd M. McComb