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THE BOSTON CAMERATA'S

Tristan & Iseult

 


an Erato CD, # 98482
Formerly issued as: Erato 75528


THE BOSTON CAMERATA
JOEL COHEN, director

Recorded September 1987


 

BOSTON CAMERATA

Henri Ledroit (countertenor)
Anne Azéma (soprano)
Ellen Hargis (soprano)
Richard Morrison (baritone)
William Hite (tenor)
Joel Cohen (lute, percussion)
Cheryl Ann Fulton (harp)
David Douglass (rebec, vielle)
Carol Lewis (rebec, vielle)
Jesse Lepkoff (flute, recorder)
Steven Lundahl (slide trumpet, recorder)
Dan Stillman (shawm)
Andrea von Ramm (narrator)

Playing time: 69'

 


 

Contents:

  1. Anon: Prologue
  2. Anon: Le lai du chevrefeuille
  3. Anon: Lai mortel
  4. Jean Bodel (d.1210): Les un pin verdoyant
  5. Anon: Gottes namen varen wir
  6. Anon: La u jou fui dedans la mer
  7. Contessa de Dia (fl.c.1200): Estat ai en grei cossirer
  8. Gottfried: Dô wir zwô vuoren
  9. Anon (Carmina Burana): Bache bene veritas
  10. Guiraut de Borneilh (d.c.1215): Reis Glorios
  11. Anon: Interlude
  12. Conon de Béthune (c.1150-1220): Se rage et derverie
  13. Guiraut Riquier (c.1230-c.1300): Jesu Crist
  14. Anon: Pange melos lacrimosum
    Anon: D'une fausse ypocrisie / Lux magna
    Anon: Alleluia, salva nos, Christe salvator
    Anon: Alle, psallite cum luya
  15. Anon: Gaite de la Tor
  16. Conon de Béthune: Se rage et derverie
  17. Anon: Lonc tans a que
  18. Thomas de Bretagne: Ysolt, bele amie
  19. Anon: A vous, Tristran, amis verai
  20. Marie de France: Le lai du Chèvrefeuille
  21. Thomas de Bretagne: Senz aïe m'estut murir
  22. Anon: Ja fis canchonnetes et lais
  23. Anon: Li solaus luist
  24. Thomas de Bretagne: Epilogue

 

 


Camerata's most honored production....

"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. The recording sessions were held in September, 1987 at the Church of the Covenant, Boston.

The world première performance, with staging by Pierre-Jean San Bartolomé, took place at New York's Merkin Hall in February, 1988, followed by Boston-area performances a few days later. These were the final public appearances of the gifted French countertenor, the late Henri Ledroit, the production's original Tristan.

In June, 1988, the Camerata gave two performances of "Tristan" at the Singapore Arts Festival. Further performances followed in June and July in Europe: Alsace (for the millenary of the city of Strasbourg), Lisbon, and Vaison-la-Romaine.

The recording was released in January 1989, and won the French Grand Prix du Disque just a few weeks after its appearance. International critical response to the recording has been extensive and enthusiastic (see below).

In America, "Tristan" has toured in California, Chicago, Washington D.C., and the South. In a new staging by Patrick Swanson, "Tristan" played to a week of sold-out houses during the 1990 Spoleto (USA) festival.

Camerata's début appearances at the prestigious Utrecht (Holland) Early Music Festival took place in September, 1990 with two performances of the "Tristan" program. A second invitation to the Utrecht festival came in 1991.

A grant from the Nakamichi Foundation brought "Tristan" to audiences in Quebec and England (York Festival). The York festival production was broadcast in full by the BBC. Camerata's debut 1995 performances in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Maebashi) were made with the "Tristan" program. . Camerata's " Tristan" at the 1996 Bergen (Norway) festival marked its first performances ever in Scandinavia.

A second Erato edition of the original recording (musical content unchanged, but packaging redesigned) appeared in 1995. This is the CD currently available to record buyers.

Future performances of "Tristan" are planned for Germany in 1998 (Dresden, Regensburg).



 

 


Reviews


GRAND PRIX DU DISQUE
Academie Charles Cros, Paris

 



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