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Those Troubadour & Trouvere songs seem definitely interesting to me, another weakness that I have are Gregorian chants. On 4/15/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Today's post brought two new/old CDs which are clearly enough related > to poetry that I believe I may without apology make notice of them > here. > > One is Troubadour & Trouvere songs: The 12th and 13th Centuries > (Music of the Middle Ages vol. 1) (Lyrichord Early Music Series LEMS > 8001) by Russell Oberlin, Countertenor, and Seymour Barab, viol. This > is a CD transfer of a 1958 LP. Russell Oberlin is considered by some > the greatest of counter-tenors, and he brings a fine expressiveness > here to his material, which makes it attractive and accessible even to > those to whom it is unfamiliar. Even those have the old LP might > still want this CD, since it includes full texts of six songs by some > of the most famous Medieval poets, along with English verse > translations by Kenneth Koch. (I haven't actually listened to this CD > yet so I can't speak to the quality of the transfer from the original > LP.) Anyone who's at all into the Troubadour/Trouvere tradition will > want this CD, and anyone who's not but wants to know what it's about > will benefit from listening to it. > > The other is The Fugs final cd [part 1], by of course The Fugs. > Supposedly there isn't a part 2 but they called it Part 1 because they > didn't want to feel like they'd reached the end of the road. The > Fugs work after their all-time classic first two album has been > uneven, but this is one of their better efforts, including Tuli > Kupferberg's reworking of "Teenager in Love," "Septuagenarian in > Love," and Ed Sanders's performance version of a poem by Charles > Bukowski. Will be treasured by anyone who still somewhere deep inside > has that sixties flip-the-bird faith. > > -- > =================================== > > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/ > > =================================== >