La cité des fous: Dieu, l'homme et la cité en France
et Provence médiévale
Anne Azéma, chant et vielle à roue
et
Shira Kammen, vielle, rebec et harpe
I. Introit
Una ciutatz fo Peire Cardenal (c. 1215- c. 1240)
Ad cor tuum revertere Philippe le Chancelier (1165-1236)
II Rex in aeternum vive!
Rex in aeternum vive! Anonyme, Ludus Danielis, 13ème
Jubilemos regi nostro Anonyme, Ludus Danielis
Estampie Royale Anonyme, 13 ème
Similabo Liber Usualis
Mon chan fenisc Bertran de Born (B.C.1140)
Rex in aeternum vive! Anonyme, Ludus Danielis
III Fex ypocrisie
Omni pene curie
Anonyme, Fauvel,
Dieus est ensi conme li pelicans Thibault de Champagne
(1201-1253)
Veritas arpie Anonyme, Fauvel
Instrumental Anonyme
Tot dreit a Carcassona Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise (1228?)
En bon Ponto Cantiga de Santa Maria 363
attrib. à Alfonso el Sabio (1221-1284)
PAUSE
IV Lo frug de saber
Adest sponsus Anonyme, Sponsus, 12 ème
Vexilla Regis Liber Usualis (Venance Fortunat - ? - 609)
Dels quatre caps que a la cros Texte: Peire Cardenal
Musique: Jaufré Rudel (c.1125-c.1148)
V Roma trichairitz
Que.l majer sens c'om pot aver Peire Cardenal
D'un sirventes far Texte: Guilhem Figueira (c.1215-c.1240) - 6.30
Musique: basée sur Peire Vidal (c.1180-1205)
Dic Christi veritas Anonyme, Carmina Burana, ca 1230
Bulla Fulminante Philippe le Chancelier, Carmina Burana
VI Coda
Una ciutatz fo Texte : Peire Cardenal
Musique basée sur Cantiga de Santa Maria 45
attrib. À Alfonso el Sabio
Bonum est confidere Philippe le Chancelier, Carmina Burana
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The musicians
Anne Azéma and Shira Kammen have performed together for over 10 years, on three continents, appearing as partners on many concerts and recordings. A few weeks ago, they recorded their first duet CD, a program of French Medieval miracle songs, Etoile du Nord.
French soprano Anne Azéma is renowned for her performances of early music. She has been acclaimed by critics on four continents for her original, passionate, and vivid approach to songs and texts of the Middle Ages. She has also been widely praised in many other repertoires, from Renaissance lute songs to Baroque sacred music to twentieth-century music theatre. Ms Azéma's current discography numbers about thirty recordings as a soloist or a recitalist. A featured soloist with The Boston Camerata , she has taken prominent roles in many of that ensemble's tours and Erato productions (Grand Prix du Disque). She has been a soloist with numerous other ensembles, large and small, early and contemporary. Ms. Azéma is a founding member of the Camerata Mediterranea, touring with them internationally and appearing on all of that ensemble CD's (Edison Prize). She is frequently invited as a recitalist touring in North America, Europe, Africa, and Japan. Her teaching activities include master classes, seminars, residencies in France, Holland and the U.S. Anne Azéma's recent major festival appearances as soloist and recitalist include Aix-en-Provence, Graz, Versailles, Spoleto U.S.A., Singapore, Jerusalem, Seville, Dresden, Boston, Bergen, Tanglewood and Tokyo. Anne Azéma was recently appointed director of musical programming for a major project on Medieval Gardens at the Musée National du Moyen Age, Paris.
Shira Kammen received her degree in music from UC Berkeley and studied vielle with Margriet Tindemans. A member for many years of Ensembles Alcatraz, Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with many other ensembles including Sequentia, Hesperion XX, The Boston Camerata, Camerata Mediterranea and the King's Noyse, and is the founder of Class V music, a group dedicated to performing on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught music in the United States, Europe, Canada, Israel and Morocco, as well as on the Colorado and Rogue rivers. Shira often collaborates with several new groups: a medieval ensemble, Fortune's Wheel; a contemporary music group ; Ephemeros, and an eclectic ethnic band, Panacea.
Summer 2001
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