Tristan and Isolde

Tristan et Iseult

Une légende du Moyen-Age en musique et en poésie
Boston Camerata - Joel Cohen
Erato ECD 75528 [CD]
Erato MCE 75528 [Cass.]
Erato 2292-45348-2 [CD]
Erato 4509 98482-2 [CD]

Contents:

1. Anon: Prologue
2. Tristan (attr.): Le lai du chevrefeuille
3. Anon: Lai mortel
4. Jean Bodel (d.1210): Les un pin verdoyant
5. Anon: Gottes namen varen wir
6. Anon: La u jou fui dedans la mer
7. Contessa de Dia (fl.c.1200): Estat ai en grei cossirer
8. Gottfried: Dô wir zwô vuoren
9. Anon (Carmina Burana): Bache bene venies
10. Guiraut de Borneilh (d.c.1215): Reis Glorios
11. Anon: Interlude
12. Conon de Béthune (c.1150-1220): Se rage et derverie
13. Guiraut Riquier (c.1230-c.1300): Jesu Crist
14. Anon: Pange melos lacrimosum
    Anon: D'une fausse ypocrisie / Lux magna
    Anon: Alleluia, salva nos, Christe salvator
    Anon: Alle, psallite cum luya
15. Anon: Gaite de la Tor
16. Conon de Béthune: Se rage et derverie
17. Anon: Lonc tans a que
18. Thomas de Bretagne: Ysolt, bele amie
19. Anon: A vous, Tristran, amis verai
20. Marie de France: Le lai du Chèvrefeuille
21. Thomas de Bretagne: Senz aïe m'estut murir
22. Anon: Ja fis canchonnetes et lais
23. Anon: Li solaus luist
24. Thomas de Bretagne: Epilogue

Performers: Henri Ledroit (countertenor), Anne Azéma (soprano), Ellen Hargis (soprano), Richard Morrison (baritone), William Hite (tenor), Joel Cohen (lute, percussion), Cheryl Ann Fulton (harp), David Douglass (rebec, vielle), Carol Lewis (rebec, vielle), Jesse Lepkoff (flute, recorder), Steven Lundahl (slide trumpet, recorder), Dan Stillman (shawm), Andrea von Ramm (narrator)

Playing time: 69'

Recording date: September 1987

Excerpts:
[2], [9], [19]-[21] Erato 4509-91777-2 Music and Memory - Musiques et Mémoires

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.): 34/4-500 (March / April 2011)

Medieval songs related to the Tristan legend in Old French, Middle High German, and Provençal, connected with readings from Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan and that of Thomas de Bretagne.

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