Wydawnictwo: Christophorus
Nr katalogowy: CHR 77290
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: marzec 2008
EAN: 4010072772909
Nr katalogowy: CHR 77290
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: marzec 2008
EAN: 4010072772909
A chantar - Song of Women in the Middle Ages
Christophorus - CHR 77290
Kompozytor
Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Beatriz de Dia, Martin Codax, Thibaut de Navarra, Audefrol Li Bastars, Guillaume de Machaut
Walther von der Vogelweide, Oswald von Wolkenstein, Beatriz de Dia, Martin Codax, Thibaut de Navarra, Audefrol Li Bastars, Guillaume de Machaut
Wykonawcy
Estampie
Estampie
The disc adopts the title of the well-known chanson of Beatriz, the countess of Dia, which is central to the program subtitled “Songs of women in the Middle Ages.” The disc, first issued as 74583, somehow missed getting reviewed here, but it is now available in a digipack. Since Beatriz has hardly any female contemporaries among composers, the rest of this program consists of songs about women. Only two of Martim Codax’s six (or seven) songs are heard, and Machaut’s motet Lasse comme oublieray/Se j’aim/Pour quoy places the voice on the tenor with instruments on the two upper lines. Lawrence Earp’s comment on this is worth repeating: “. . . not a possible scoring for a motet, one would think.” There is a reason for singing it this way, for it follows a performance of the original song that furnished the tenor. That anonymous song is also heard on Sinfonye’s “The sweet look and the loving manner” (17:1). That collection of women’s songs, one of three that the group made, shares nothing else with this program. Not a new programming idea, Montserrat Figueras earlier made a collection of “Cansos de trobairitz” in the Reflexe series.