Musiques Croisées

Musiques Croisées
Orient-Occident XIIe-XIIIe siècles
Ensemble Isengrin
Studio SM "Viva Voce" D 2775

Content:

    Anon. (t) / Anon. (m), troubadour
  1. Vida de Pierre Vidal

    2. Anon., Trouvère (t/m)
  2. Jerusalhem grant damage me faïs

    3. Raimbault de Vacqueiras (t/m)
  3. Altas undas que venez suz la mar

    4. Gausbert Amiel (t/m)
  4. Breu vers per tal que meins i poing (in modern french / occitan)

    5. Anon., Trouvère (m)
  5. Danse anglaise

    6. Jaufre Rudel (t/m)
  6. No sap chantar qui son non di (in modern french / occitan)

    7. Anon., Trouvère (m)
  7. Estampie

    8. Anon., troubadour (t/m)
  8. A l'entrada del tens clar

    9. Alfonso el Sabio (t) (attr.) / Bruno Ortega (m): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  9. Cantiga 166: Como podes per sas culpas (in french)

    10. Anon., sephardic
  10. La rosa enflorecee

    11. Gausbert Amiel (m), variation on the theme
  11. Breu vers per tal que meins i poing

Playing time: 66' 42"

Performers:
Ensemble Isengrin [Denis Grapperon (voice, recorder, drum), Denis Parmain (narrator), Valérie Loiseau (maurache, psalterion, shells, double drum), Bruno Ortega (recorders, zarb), Claude Riot (lute, tympanon, bûche, rebec, guimbarde)]

Recording site and date:
Église d'Augerville-la-Rivière, Loiret, France [03-04/1998]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):462-126 (september 1999)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (#-p.):

Comments:
Information from owned CD, (t)=text, (m)=melody. Purist stay away; a lot of fun from a dynamic group but few interpretations are very questionable, other are truly arrangements and the rest is quite acceptable. Although they say in their introductory notes that the modern interpret should be extremely careful about arabic influence, arabic influence is pervasive in their interpretation.

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Pierre-F. Roberge