Six songs by the troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn
Chantador de joi d’amor

KTC 1651 . 1CD . 8711801016511 . 08/03/2020 . Etcetera Records

Chantador de joi d’amor

Six songs by the troubadour Bernart de Ventadorn

Composer(s):
  • Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)

Chantador de joi d’amor
Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo (voice) Manuel Vilas (medieval harp, Instrument by Luis Martínez; its design was inspired by illuminations in the 13th century Maciejowsky Bible from northern France.)

The CD was recorded in the Air Classical Recording Studio in Santiago de Compostela in October 2017.

Chantador of course means ‘singer’ — and Bernard de Ventadorn was fully worthy of the title. A troubadour from the Limoges region in the 12th century, he wrote love poems in Occitan and set them to music. He was not only the object of much raillery during his lifetime, but was also subjected to various hypotheses concerning his birth during the 20th century: he may have been the son of a baker or even the illegitimate son of a viscount in a castle in Moustier-Ventadour, the ruins of which are currently being excavated and explored. The amount of texts and music attributed to him that has survived in chansonniers, manuscripts that are veritable song-books, was equalled by very few other troubadours of the time; forty-one cansos, poems with love alone as their subject, can be attributed to him with certainty; his musical settings for seventeen of these have also survived.

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Track listing

1 Cant l’erba fresq’e•l fuelha par 08:12
artists: 'Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo ' 'Manuel Vilas'
composers: 'Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)'
2 Pus mi prejatz, senhor, qu’ieu chant 07:30
artists: 'Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo ' 'Manuel Vilas'
composers: 'Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)'
3 Be m’an perdut en lay ves Ventadorn 10:02
artists: 'Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo ' 'Manuel Vilas'
composers: 'Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)'
4 Can par la flors josta•l vert folh 09:33
artists: 'Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo ' 'Manuel Vilas'
composers: 'Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)'
5 Non es meravelha s’eu chan 09:36
artists: 'Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo ' 'Manuel Vilas'
composers: 'Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)'
6 Can vei la lauzeta mover de joi sas alas 08:47
artists: 'Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo ' 'Manuel Vilas'
composers: 'Bernart de Ventadorn (c.1130-1190)'