Nuits Occitanes: Songs of the Troubadours by l'ensemble Céladon - Album trailer

Video direction: Philippe de Magnée

Ensemble Céladon : Paulin Bündgen, artistic director and countertenor / Clara Coutouly, soprano / Nolwenn Le Guern, fiddle and rebab / Florent Marie, medieval lute / Gwénaël Bihan, recorder / Ludwin Bernaténé, drums.

Under the title 'Occitan Nights', a few troubadour songs have been collected here. Those poet-musicians celebrated the beauty of women, praised the courage of men and evoked the parting of lovers at daybreak. The CÉLADON Ensemble offers us a poetic, inspired vision of these lovely melodies (proposed with their complete texts), and the accompaniment, with four instruments (fiddle or rabab, lute, recorders and percussion), provides a particularly elegant sound environment sublimated by the perfect acoustics of the church of Notre-Dame de Centeilles.

[bennettbullock]

I've been going down a troubadour rabbit hole recently. I forgot how wildly sexy and yet subtly mystical this poetry and culture really was. God I love this.

[skellez]

I often come back to this. Makes me want to have a drink, and a laugh. Makes me want to live! As a musician myself, I would love to make music together and drink away the clouds!

[SinilkMudilaSama]

It's interesting and charming occitan songs have argelian, maltese, marroquin influences in arregements
It's charming song❤

[anaconda]

I'm listening to this piece while leaving Carcassonne and Languedoc behind. What a farewell, thank you.

[sandykl]

Absolutely fantastic and mesmerizing. The fact that they are in a natural setting with modest clothing and being barefoot really helps to paint the picture of an idea of 12 -13th century life. Even if it's subtle, it really helps! I can only dream of what it was like. The handmade instruments, hand dyed clothing, medieval haircuts. Wish I could have seen in it! Glad they are using wooden instruments to make this scene more realistic to its origin! Bravo!

[brontecazeri]

What a beautiful song and music… I’m speechless…

[carolinaluiggia]

Found out about this music while reading “To Kill a Troubador” by Martin Walker and the musical group and their songs are mentioned..so delighted to have found them their performance is sublime!

[crieverytim]

i saw the word troubadour and thought 'hey, i never really googled that before' and now i'm here. how awesome

[sofoniyasyosef]

you guys don;t know how useful this is thank you 🙏

[AhmedBalalo]

That's so fantastic! I love it so much. It's seems like Andalusian Arabic Muwassah poetry to me.

[TheBurgessNetwork]

This is beautiful music! Really hits me in my soul.

[eddybrevet]

Sensual beyond the limits of only the most fortunate, Stephanie...

[simeonsimeonov]

Great Catar and Bogomils music! Still used the instruments in traditional Bulgarian music : Gadulka, Caval, Tupan and Tambura eventually Gaida. Thank you

[DS-ygqs]

Great ensamble... great quality. Superb people.

[suzannederringer]

So beautifully done, such a joyous performance!

[fassie]

I love how their are all on their feet :D

[jackbuckley]

As a huge fan of authentic medieval music & vocalizing, what I, and what we all should do is, while this is running, minimize or remove from view, if preferred---leaving the audio ON, then open another window, either You Tube or Google gallery of images, bringing up photos of castles, either video or still-frames, magnify, etc. It's extremely evocative of the Middle Ages!

[pokoid]

This is such a wonderful version of this song. Beautiful!

[amphionification]

This is fantastic. I love to hear musicians able to bring life to pieces like this.

[josepj.f.]

The original title is "Tant m'abelis joys et amors e chans" (I like so much the joy, love and song). It's a catalan poem written by Berenguer de Palou o Palazol.