Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart): Troubadours & Trouvères in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Marie de Champagne & Geoffroy, Duke of Brittany - Alla Francesca

Richard I Coeur-de-lion (Composer), Guiot de Dijon (Composer), Chastelain de Couci (Performer), Conon de Bethune (Performer), Gace Brule (Performer), Bernart de Ventadorn (Orchestra), Gaucelm Faidit (Artist), Emmanuel Bonnardot (Artist), Raphael Boulay (Artist), Pierre Hamon (Artist), Alla Francesca (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Chastelain de Couci, Conon de Bethune, Gace Brule
• Orchestra: Bernart de Ventadorn
• Composer: Richard I Coeur-de-lion, Guiot de Dijon
• Audio CD (March 10, 1997)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Opus 111
• ASIN: B000005W54
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #194,553 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lai due Chèvrefeuille

2. L'autrier par la matinee (postourelle)

3. Ja nus hons pris, for consort

4. Chanterai por mon coraige (chanson)

5. Li nouveaux temps, Crusader's song

6. Vocis tripudio (rondeau)

7. A vous Amours

8. Canticum exercuit, clausule-motet

9. Bien me deüsse targier

10. Quant voi la flour boutener

11. Redit etas aurea

12. Christus patris gratie

13. Quan (Can) vei la lauzeta mover, motet

14. Fortz causa es, for consort

Customer Reviews

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Richard the Lionheart Prison Blues, December 18, 2005

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Sergey Lenkov "Serge" (Mother Russia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart): Troubadours & Trouvères in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Marie de Champagne & Geoffroy, Duke of Brittany - Alla Francesca (Audio CD)

Alla Francesca extemely great, lively and emotionally re-creates and performes two songs tied with Richard the Lionheart. First of them by Richard himself, "Ja nuns hons pris" ("No Prisoner Will Ever Speak His Mind Fully..."), written while he was imprisoned in Austria on the way back from Palestine. Really sad and beautiful song. And the second - song by Gauselm Faidit dedicated to the death of Richard. The other songs and instrumentals are also from the time of the Crusades.
The music performed here in more interesting and emotional way than on the famous old disc by David Munrow "Music of the Crusades". According to my experience, this music usually charms and impresses the listeners who never before heard medieval music.

P.S. If the music of the Crusades epoch is interesting for you - there is CD released in Germany - full version (30:48) of famous song by Walther von der Vogelweide "Palastinalied" (Song of Palestine) written in the 1220s and performed by 20 German authetic, folk, prog rock, Gothic and electronic music bands as single concept piece of music (produced by Markus Van Langen). Though it is not authentic record, still it sounds very lively and original and helps to feel the spirit of that epoch. Search the Web for site of label Emmuty Records.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, November 3, 2006

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Richard (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart): Troubadours & Trouvères in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Marie de Champagne & Geoffroy, Duke of Brittany - Alla Francesca (Audio CD)

Probably the best troubadour/trouvere disc that I've heard. Stirring vocal work and authentic instrumentation invoke the spirit of the 12th & 13th centuries perfectly. Includes a great rendition of King Richard's 'Prison Song', as well as 'Redit etas aurea', a song that I've read the text of before (the lyrics are great-very representative of the 12th century mindset) but never heard performed. I didn't know that any notation of it had survived. Definitely recommended for fans of early music, but so well done that anyone looking for something new and interesting to listen to would probably enjoy it.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inappropriate pronunciation!, May 18, 2008

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Hrothgar (Schaumburg, Illinois USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart): Troubadours & Trouvères in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Richard the Lionheart, Marie de Champagne & Geoffroy, Duke of Brittany - Alla Francesca (Audio CD)

I originally wrote a glowing review for this CD, and musically it is superb. However, I recently began reading the book "An Introduction to Old French" by William W. Kibler and this made me realise that the pronunciation of the C12th French is probably quite wrong. On this CD the songs are pronounced pretty much like modern French, or at least middle French, with many unpronounced letters. To quote from Kibler "All letters that were written represented phonemes, with the following exceptions". He then lists 4 exceptions: final -nt (after late C13th); s interior; h; and etymological letters. Thus, there are very few exceptions. The best example that I have found of authentic pronunciation is "Chevrefoil" by Istanpitta. Compare the two CDs. There is a huge difference!