The Forgotten Kingdom/Le Royaume Oublie

Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras - The Forgotten Kingdom/Le Royaume Oublie

The Forgotten Kingdom/Le Royaume Oublie
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Artist: Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
Composer: Dufay
Conductor: Savall
Orchestra: Hesperion XXI
Orchestra: La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
CD Release Date: 2010-03-09
Music Label: Alia Vox
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Musique Bulgare
  2. Veri dulcis in Tempore
  3. Plainte Instrumentale, Pt. 1
  4. Les Trois Principes
  5. Reis Glorios
  6. Payre sant
  7. En to stavro pares tosa
  8. Fanfare de Croisade
  9. Mawachah Chamoulo
  10. Instrumental Lament, Pt. 2
  11. Pos de chantar, Cançon
  12. A Chantar m'er de so
  13. Epistola ad patrem Bernardum
  14. Mentem meam ledit dolor
  15. Ave Generosa [Instrumental]
  16. Consolament
  17. Funeral March
  18. Heu mister [Instrumental]
  19. A per pauc de chantar
  20. Innocent III is Pope/"Publicains" are burned at Troyes
  21. Chant de la Sybille Occitaine
Music CD 2
  1. Fanfare
  2. Ego enim scio
  3. Quant ay lo mon consirat
  4. Mot era dous e plazens
  5. E l'abas de Cistels, Vers. 4
  6. Nous exhortons
  7. Cant l'apostolis saub. Vers 5
  8. Fanfares and battle calls [Instrumental]
  9. Le barnatges de Fransa Vers 21
  10. Quascus plor e planh
  11. Lavaurs fon tan fortz. Vers 68
  12. Cruciferi ex precepto
  13. Vai, Hugonet, ses bistensa
  14. Bel m'es q'ieu chant e coindei
  15. Aissi cum es genser Pascors
  16. L'Epictafi de S. de Montfort. Vers 208
  17. D'un sirventes far
Music CD 3
  1. Fanfare
  2. Clergue si fan pastor
  3. Instrumental lament, Pt. 3
  4. Ad exstirpanda
  5. Un sirventes novel vueill comensar
  6. Beliche
  7. Del tot vey remaner valor
  8. Planctus [Instrumental]
  9. Pater Noster
  10. Tartarassa ni voutor
  11. Audi pontus, audi tellus
  12. El Rey de Francia
  13. Il n'est pas étonnant
  14. Marche funèbre
  15. No puesc sofrir la dolor [Instrumental]
  16. Instrumental Lament, Pt. 4
  17. Audi, bénigne
  18. Ballade de la Pucelle
  19. O Crudele Suplicium
  20. Taksim & Makam-l Saba usules Cenber
  21. Instrumental Lament, Pt. 5
  22. O très piteulx de tout espoir fontaine
  23. Si ay perdut mon saber

Music reviews of The Forgotten Kingdom/Le Royaume Oublie

Music Review: Savall at his best
Rating: 5 Stars

In a perfect world, Jordi Savall would be officially proclaimed a Universal Treasure. I've been collecting his recordings since Hesperion was only XX. He doesn't just record music, he creates a cultural/philosophical concept and fills it with appropriate "illustrations." For his American debut tour, which I attended in Houston just this past October, he and his ensemble traced the connections between Hispanic music in the Old and New Worlds. The only negative comment from a critic was that Savall didn't play enough music highlighting his instrument. Not enough of a great thing!
The cultural world is replete with "high concept art." Too often, the concept isn't realized in the execution. The philosophy overwhelms the art-making. Not so with Savall and his forces. They are all, above all, consummate artists. They bring skill and commitment to their music-making. The ensemble could easily stand on its artistic legs without an overriding philosophical context. A concert isn't a lecture. Reminds me of a comment made about Umberto Eco's masterful "The Name of the Rose" -- even if you don't get off on Medieval Church history and philosophy, it is still a crackling good murder mystery.
On the high of actually experiencing Savall live and being a student of the Albigensian movement since hearing Claude Marti's haunting "L'Agonie du languedoc," on an ancient Studio der Fruehen Musik vinyl disc, I bought Savall's treatment of the subject. It was well-worth every dollar it cost.
Like vintage wine or single-malt, it must be sipped and savored, not gulped. To actually sit down in a comfortable chair, with the beautifully written and illustrated book on my lap, and let the phenomenal sound play through a home theater audio setup, was like being enveloped by the timelessness of a Medievel cloister -- specifically, for me, The Cloisters in New York where I was turned on to Medieval art and music as a teenager. Listening to this three-disc set is a whole day affair -- and one that amply rewards the time spent -- but, then again, in a Medieval cloister, time is irrelevant.
So, too, is retirement -- which I expect to spend in the company of Jordi Savall and his ensembles.
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Description of The Forgotten Kingdom/Le Royaume Oublie

Catharism was the name given to a Christian religious sect that appeared in the Languedoc region of what is now southern France and flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries. The Cathars saw matter as intrinsically evil. They denied that Jesus could become incarnate and still be the son of God and thus, the Catholic Church regarded the sect as dangerously heretical. Faced with what they saw as a rapidly spreading cancer, the Church called for a crusade, which was carried out by knights from Northern France and Germany and was known as the Albigensian Crusade. This campaign, and the inquisition that followed it, eradicated the Cathars completely. It also had the effect of weakening the semi- independent southern principalities in the area, ultimately bringing them under direct control of the King of France. Occitania, once a crossroads of many cultures, was one of the victims of the Albigensian Crusade. Occitania s refined culture culminated in the troubadour tradition, which subsequently spread to Italy, Spain and Greece. Related movements sprang up throughout Europe: the Minnesingers in Germany, trovadorismo in Galicia and Portugal and the trouvères in northern France. On this album, Jordi Savall not only explores the classical period of the troubadour school from around the turn of the 13th century, but also provides us with a comprehensive historical and artistic background of this Golden Age. It is time we remembered this forgotten kingdom where much of what we call Western culture was incubated.

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