1 audio disc (approximately 65 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
OCLC
ocm34908357
Credits
The Martin Best Consort (Martin Best, voice, lutes, psaltery, pottery drum; Libby Crabtree, soprano; Giles Chabonard, vielle; David Corkhill, hammer dulcimer, tambourine; Robing Jeffrey, cittern, oud, theorbo, laouto; Lucie Skeaping, violin, fidele, rebec, pipe; David Tosh, dulcimer, nakers, tabor; Rebecca Outram, Caris Lane, sopranos; Natanja Hadda, Kim Porter, Susannah Spicer, altos; Matthew Vine, Paul Tindell, Simon Davies, tenors; Rosemary Thorndycraft, viola da gamba)
Compact disc (DDD).
Digital recording.
Program notes and English translations of texts, most by Martin Best (18 p.), inserted in container.
Recorded Nov. 6-10, 1994, in the Concert Hall of the Nimbus Foundation.
Sung in Provençal or Latin.
Women and men: Ne l'oserary-je. Voulez-vous que je vous dise? (chansons-avec-refrains, c. 1550) ; Dessus la rive (from Les Airs de Cerveau, carole in ballade form, c. 1550) ; A chanter mer (Canso by Beatriz de Dia, b. c 1140) ; Vecy le mai (Carole in rondeau form, c. 1550) ; Ma charmante cadet (Traditional pastorela, Limousin) -- Sequence in free organum: Alleluia Justus (School of St. Martial, Limoges, 12th century) -- Troubadours and dances: A l'entrada del tens clar (12th century dance-song in carole form) ; Li gelos (anonymous troubadour dance-song) ; Air de Cheval-Jupon (traditional Languedoc dance) ; Lancan li jorn (Canso by Jaufre Rudel de Blaye, d.c. 1160) ; Ara lauzatz (anonymous troubadour vers, 12th century)
(cont'd) -- Sequence to St. Peter and St. Paul: Laude jocunda (School of St. Martial, Limoges, 12th century) -- Motets at Montpellier: Pucelete. Je languis. Domino L (c. 1250) ; Aucun. Lonc tans. Annuntiantes (Petrus de Cruce, d.c. 1300) ; Alle Psallite (c. 1250) -- Nightingales: Rossignolet du bois (carole in ballade form, 1st half of the 16th century) ; Rossignolet du bois (traditional, Bas-Languedoc) ; Lo sodard (traditional, Bas-Limousin) -- Sequence for Epiphany: Ephiphaniam Domino (School of St. Martial, Limoges, c. 1150) -- Awakening: Reis glorios: Alba (by Guiraut de Bornelh, b. 1165, d. after 1220)