MEDIEVAL SONGS FROM LOVE AND LOSS - GILLES BINCHOIS.wmv

Holiday Playlist...


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...