[DSD][OF] Gerard Zuchetto - La Primavera d’Amore (Трубадуры XII-XIII веков) - 2015 (Classical/ Medieval)

The world of the troubadours is remote, fantastic and impenetrable. However, history tells us that as soon as the 11th century, a new form of poetry, the trobar, arises with the quill pen of Gui Ihem de Poitiers: the first, the inventor. It is a new spring of joy, love and youth, unlimited, full of exuberance and in its mother tongue, occitan. This poetry has new sounds, it is sung and declaimed in full liberty. The troubadours cross a major part of Europe, France (Limousin, Aquitaine, Languedoc, Auvergne, Provence ...), Spain (Catalonia, Castillo, Aragon...), Portugal, Northern Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Germany, or Hungary ... and travel as far as the Middle East. The poets, come singers, ore representative of different moments in literary, political and religious history in the 12th and 13th centuries. From Bernart de Ventadour, troubadour of courtly love, to Guilhem Figueira who rises up against the Inquisition and denounces the Crusade against the Albigensians.
If the metrical composition of the songs is rigorous, the melodies which embellish the poems of all the musical quality of the singing and the instruments gives vent to the expressions of feelings, and today, to the expressions of those who interpret them.
This recording is a tribute to the maestrio de trobor, a poetical-musical art, whose songs are composed according to inspiration, along with science, knowledge, skill and inventiveness.
Gerard Zuchetto studies the poetical and musical works into original manuscripts. By digging into the roots of trobor, he searches for an authenticity and an interpretation of the canso from days gone by, in order to render its true tones and emotions: ''l\lchemy of words and sounds, a canso is a lyric drama which I feel must be interpretated today with full knowledge of its distinctive context, with its live context: cheek as well as meditation, which the text offers us". A researcher, composer and singer, Gerard Zuchetto, who published "The land of troubadours" in 1996, an anthology, CD and CD Rom, is the author of several recordings dedicated to the troubadours and to contemporary poetry of the langue d'oc.