This is a recording about a surprising phenomenon: The vigorous survival, in the Northern part of the United States, of folk-inspired religious hymnody. It is well known that the “folk” element in American church…
In the year 1310 manuscript copies of a scurrilous satirical poem, the Roman de Fauvel, began circulating around Paris. Corrosive, pitiless, the poet, a mid-level government functionary named Gervais de Bus…
Astonishing in their diversity and grace, the circa-four thousand poems of the Occitanian and Catalan troubadours survive by the forsight of a few enlightened patrons who, sensing the end of an epoch, began…
The name of Jean Gilles, which had been forgotten for more than a century and a half, emerged from obscurity in the 1950’s, thanks largely to the rediscovery of his Messe des Morts. Yet this musician, whom his contemporaries considered to be…
Tristan and Iseult, Camerata’s most honored production of recent seasons, was originally conceived as a recording project. At the request of Erato records, intense literary and musical research took place during winter and spring 1987.
“Inexpressible riches…a marvelous recording”
– Répertoire
Much of the music you are about to hear…
American civilisation came in large part from old Europe. So we all know — but do we? For the myth of modern, industrial America, that brand-new, technology-driven, rootless place is strong in the contemporary mind. American music, we tend to think, is a product of modern times and big cities.
An extremely rich recording, procuring constant enchantment on repeated hearings. Once more, the intelligence of Joel Cohen and his musicians ravishes us. The voices are superb, among others those of Anne Azéma… -Compact (Paris)
