Informal recital

Date: 
Monday, December 2, 1957
Time: 
5.15 pm
Season/No: 
1957-58

An informal recital of Eight songs and incidental music from "Aucassin et Nicolette"

Venue:

Participant(s): 

Singers:
Barbara Delano Laing
Iain Robertson

with  the
New Edinburgh Quartet

Work(s) / Composer(s) / Opus No(s): 

Eight songs and incidental music from:   "Aucassin et Nicolette" ... Sidney Newman

Act I
1. Nicolette - "Hélas! au pauvre chétive"
2. Aucassin - "Nicolette au beau maintien"
3. Le guetteur - "Jeune fillette au coeur franc"
4. Entr'acte - (based on Chansonnier Cange no. 87 - Chanson du roi de Navarre [Raynaud 1727])

Act II
5. Nicolette - Père, Roi de majesté"
6.  Le pastoureau - "Beaux compagnons, que Dieu aide Aucassinet"
7. Aucassin - "Nicolette au corps charmant"
8. Aucassin - "Etoilette, je te voie"
9. Intermezzo - (melody C.C. No. 61, Chanson de Gace Brulé [Raymaud 1572])

Act III
10. Entr'acte - (based on song no. 2 above and upon C.C.No. 79, Dévat anonyme [Raymaud 1775])
11. Nicolette - "Ecoutez, nobles barons, ceux d'aval et ceux d'amont!"
12. Final Curtain Music (melody C.C. No. 13, Chanson de Thibaut de Blason [Raymaud 1402])

 

Composer(s):

Group/Ensemble: 
The (New) Edinburgh (String) Quartet

Performance Type:

Programme: 
Single f/c typed sheet
Programme Notes: 

No programme notes.

Documents: 
PDF icon 1957 2 Dec.pdf (1.33 MB)
Ticket and/or Programme Price(s): 
no charge
Publicity and Reviews: 

Advance leaflet.  Invitation extended to any students or members of staff and their friends who wish to be present.

[Reid] Professor: 
Newman, Sidney T. M. 1906-1971

Promoter:

Notes: 

C.C. = "Chansonnier Cange (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms Francais No. 846) public en Facsimilé et transcrit en notation moderne par Jean Beck - 2 vols 1927, Paris and Philadelphia (from Corpus Cantilenarus Medii Aevi - Première Serie - Les Chansonniers des Troubadours et des Trouvères.)