Recordings
Herz, prich!
Our fourth CD containing German songs was released in March 2010.
More information about the CD at Alba Records.
- 02_ain_graserin.mp3
- 03_under_der_linden.mp3
- 04_de_unghelarde.mp3
- 05_du_ausserwelter.mp3
- 06_blozen.mp3
- 07_wenn_ich_betracht.mp3
- 09_herz_prich.mp3
- 10_mir_hat.mp3
- 12_mit_gunslichem.mp3
- 13_o_wie_gern.mp3
- 14_grasselick_lif.mp3
- 15_ain_tunckle_farb.mp3
Joie fine
The thirds CD of Oliphant was published in April 2006. It contains medieval pious trouvère songs.
The publisher is Alba Records, from whom you can get more information. The CD can be ordered from Alba's web site.
Here are samples from the CD in mp3 format. Duration of each sample is about 30 seconds.
- Eyns ne soy ke pleynte fu (Before, I knew not to complain)
- On doit la mere Dieu honorer (One must honour the Mother of God)
- Chanter voel par grant amour (I wish to sing out of great love)
- Remambrance que m’est ou cuer entreie (The memory in my heart)
- Mauvez arbres ne puet fl orir (A bad tree can not flower)
- Li debonnaires Dieus m’a mis en sa prison (The good Lord cast me in his prison)
- Amis, amis, trop me laissiez en estrange païs (Friend, friend, too long you have left me in a strange land)
- Douce Dame Virge Marie (Great Lady, Virgin Mary)
- Li solaus qui en moy luist est mes deduis (The sun that shines in me is my joy, and God is my guide)
- Deus est ensi conme li pellicans (God is like a pelican)
Gace Brulé
The second CD of Oliphant was published in March 2004. The CD consists solely of the music by the trouvere Gace Brulé.
Here are samples from the CD in mp3 format. Duration of each sample is about 30 seconds.
- De la joie que desir tant (Joy I Long for So Much)
- L’autrier estoie en un vergier (One Day in a Garden)
- Bien cuidai toute ma vie joie et chançon oblïeir (Joy and Song I Thought Were Lost for Ever)
- A mal aise est qui sert en esperance (Restless is He who Serves in Hope)
- Ahi, Amours, con savez sagement (Oh Love, how Well You Know)
- Fine amors est de tel force establie (The Power of Nobel Love is so Great)
The publisher is Alba Records, from whom you can get more information.
Deus ad un turnei enpris (Songs from the Crusades)
The first CD by Oliphant was published in 2000, and nominated as one of the Recordings of the Year by Helsingin Sanomat, a major Finnish news paper.
Read a review by Gary Higginson from MusicWeb.
Here are samples from the CD in mp3 format. Duration of each sample is about 30 seconds.
- Anonymous: Chevalier, mult estes guariz (Knights, you are in safe hands)
- Conon de Béthume: Ahi, Amours! (Oh Love!)
- Hugues de Bergé: S'onques nus hom por dure departie (If ever a man for a harsh separation)
- Dame, einsi est qu'il m'en couvient aler (Indeed I must go now, lady)
- Jerusalem se plaint et li pais (Jerusalem bewiles)
- Nus ne porroit de mauvere reson (No one could make a good song of a bad thing)
- Seignor, saichiés qi or ne s'en ira (Hark, my lords!)
The publisher is Alba Records, from whom you can get more information.