L'Amour De Lonh: Medieval Songs of Love and Loss

Focusing on the central notion - one very dear to the troubadours themselves - of "love from afar", this new programme leads the listener through that maze of amorous emotions linked with the sense of absence (be it as a result of the crusades, owing to war, to tournaments, or to paternal bans...). The route chosen here is an unconventional one, traversing differing styles and epochs, with music from villages as well as from the courts, an immersion in the vast world of song and in the company of its earliest masters - the troubadours, the trouvères - and of its ageless servants: the traditional singer-poets from Occitania and from Spain... After four CDs on Glossa dedicated to music of a roundly religious nature, in L'Amor de Lonh Dominique Vellard and the Ensemble Gilles Binchois come forward with their first secular programme in a long time, offering excitingly- committed interpretations and demonstrating once more why - after more than 30 years of activity - they are still considered the leading exponents of whatever repertories they lay their musical hands on.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Église de St Saturnin, Pouzac, Hautes-Pyrénées, France (10/2009).

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Works Details

Traditional, Sephardic : Esta montaña d'enfrente (This Mountain in Front)

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 5 min. 34 sec.

Rudel de Blaye, Jaufre : Lanquan il jorn son lonc en may

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 5 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Anonymous, French : Quand la pastora, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 1 min. 32 sec.
Form: Vocal

Anonymous, French : Triste ei lo cèu, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 3 min. 29 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Rudel de Blaye, Jaufre : Quan lo riu de la fontana (Can lo rius de la fontana)

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 6 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Halle, Adam de la : Trop desir a veoir, rondeau for 3 voices

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 1 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Written: circa 1270-1300

Traditional, Sephardic : Una hija tiene el rey

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 2 min. 46 sec.

Anonymous, French : Dinz la roubieira de Lissac, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 2 min. 29 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Vocal

Martin Codax : Quantas sabedes amare amigo, cantiga for voice and accompaniment

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Notes: Composition written: 13th Century.
Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Written: 13th Century

Vaqeiras, Raimbaut de : Altas undas, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Anonymous, Portuguese : Meu amor, meu amoriño, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 1 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance
Form: Vocal

Anonymous, French : Fine Amors me fait chanter, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 4 min. 57 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Vocal

Martin Codax : Ai Deus, se sab' ora meu amigo, cantiga for voice & accompaniment

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Written: 13th Century

Faidit, Gaucelm : Del grant golfe de mar

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 4 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Anonymous, French : A vous Tristan, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 4 min. 24 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Halle, Adam de la : Au repairier de la douce contree, monophonic chanson, R. 500

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 4 min. 10 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral
Written: circa 1270-1300

Anonymous, French : Quant voi le douz tens, song

Ensemble: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois
Running Time: 2 min. 26 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

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