Program: #93-05, Air Date: 02/01/93
The troubadours of 12th century France were the first Europeans to sing lyric poetry in the language of the people. Witty and sophisticated, these virtuoso poet-singers celebrated the new ideal of courtly love. Guest artists Peter Becker and Carol Wilson join the Folger Consort in a performance of poetry and dialog songs as relevant to today's relationship between the sexes as they were eight centuries ago. (Recorded live at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.)
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