Oliphant - Gace Brulé: Trouvère songs (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 53:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 182 | Recorded: 2002
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 53:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Alba Records | # ABCD 182 | Recorded: 2002
Here the Finnish ensemble Oliphant devotes a program to Gace Brulé, one of the most highly esteemed trouvères (medieval poet/musicians who flourished in the north of France) of his day. Like nearly all trouvères during this period, Brulé entertained at various courts, writing verse and composing songs strictly about secular love. More often than not Brulé wantonly celebrates it–such as in soprano Uli Korhonen’s lovely a cappella “Fine Amours est de tel Force Establie” (The Power of Noble Love is so Great). More atypical (and fascinating) is the program’s centerpiece, “L’Autrier Estoie en un Vergier” (One Day in a Garden), where the complexity of the subject becomes more ambiguous.