Joel Cohen

Erato brings you perhaps The Boston Camerata's most ambitious programs. Joel Cohen and his ensemble recreated 'Tristan & Iseult ' the legend of the most famous and tragic love story of the whole Western culture by mixing captivating recitations of the earliest German and French written sources with love songs from 12th and 13th centuries’ troubadours and adaptations of pieces excerpted from the famous Vienna manuscript. Now available on digital platforms, this album was an absolute hit of Medieval music at the time of its release and won unnumberable prizes. It was dedicated to the memory of star counter-tenor Henri Ledroit, who portrays Tristan.

The Boston Camerata explores again a little-known side of early music repertoire; Douce beauté (Sweet Beauty). With its accessible melody, strophic form and simplified polyphony to facilitate the understanding of the text, the air de cour marks the entry of France into the baroque era.

Another throwback project with the pioneering trailblazing conductor of early repetoires Joel Cohen, paired with the Camerata Mediterranea, an ensemble promoting intercultural dialogue between both sides of the sea, he recorded this beautiful program centered on the love songs of Bernard de Ventadour, the greatest troubadour of his time. Each song alternes with an Occitan poem by Uc de Saint-Circ relating the adventurous sentimental live of Bernard.

The Boston Camerata explores again a little-known side of early music repertoire; Douce beauté (Sweet Beauty). With its accessible melody, strophic form and simplified polyphony to facilitate the understanding of the text, the air de cour marks the entry of France into the baroque era.

Erato brings you perhaps The Boston Camerata's most ambitious programs. Joel Cohen and his ensemble recreated 'Tristan & Iseult ' the legend of the most famous and tragic love story of the whole Western culture by mixing captivating recitations of the earliest German and French written sources with love songs from 12th and 13th centuries’ troubadours and adaptations of pieces excerpted from the famous Vienna manuscript. Now available on digital platforms, this album was an absolute hit of Medieval music at the time of its release and won unnumberable prizes. It was dedicated to the memory of star counter-tenor Henri Ledroit, who portrays Tristan.