{"title":"Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"missa-luba","title":"Missa Luba","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe centrepiece of this edition is the the \u003ci\u003eMissa Luba\u003c\/i\u003e, a version of the Latin mass bewitchingly performed by Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin. It includes the beautiful \u003ci\u003eSanctus\u003c\/i\u003e which was deployed by director Lindsay Anderson to magical effect in his extraordinary 1968 film, \u003ci\u003eIf...\u003c\/i\u003eThis edition presents the \u003ci\u003eMissa Luba\u003c\/i\u003e complete in a programme which also includes the delightful Christmas in the Congo album and a selection of both children's songs and songs from Luba folklore, (eight of which are released here in digital format for the first time); all performed joyfully by Father Guido Haazen's remarkable youth choir. Taking its cue from both Sanctus and \u003ci\u003eIf...,\u003c\/i\u003e the remainder of this edition surveys the use of unusual and classical music in post-war cinema by progressive film makers; among them Welles, Bergman, Buñuel, Kubrick, Powell, Visconti; poets and mavericks for whom cinema transcended even art. Malcolm McDowell's choice of \u003ci\u003eSanctus\u003c\/i\u003e for \u003ci\u003eIf... \u003c\/i\u003ewas inspired. The other-worldliness of the music seems the perfect metaphor for the fight for freedom that Lindsay Anderson suggested If... was mostly about. Among some other sublime and powerfully effective examples of where film and music have become inseparable are included in this set; Mahler's Fifth Symphony in Visconti's Death in Venice; Chopin and Bach establishing atmosphere for Ingmar Bergman in Cries and Whispers; Bach and Beethoven haunting Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock; Chopin for Jack Nicholson in Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces; Bach again, played by Glenn Gould, in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse-Five; Paganini (\"a wizard of a different sort of fiddle\") for Orson Welles in F for Fake; and for Wim Wender' Fitzcarraldo, Enrico Caruso, recorded in 1907, singing from Puccini's La Bohème. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EL","offers":[{"title":"CD | x3","offer_id":50449337745739,"sku":"1047172","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e7249ba9-f66c-4a30-a8b3-770a19579e6d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727101724"},{"product_id":"christmas-in-the-congo","title":"Christmas In The Congo","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn forming and guiding the \u003cstrong\u003eTroubadours du Roi Baudouin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Father Guido Haazen chose to add a new and marvelous chapter to the long history of African influence in music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe curiously irreverent jazz that was played at the New Orleans funerals is indebted to this influence; the poignant spirituals of the plantations recall their melancholy roots; the sambas and the marchas composed for the Mardi Gras Carnivals in Rio de Janeiro pulsate with similar rhythms; and today's gospel music strongly reflects its African source.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe musical richness of the environment was immediately apparent to Father Haazen upon arriving in the Congo in 1953. Soon he had assembled forty-five boys, from the ages of nine to fourteen and fifteen teachers, into a choir (with a percussion section added) that has since gained world renown as the \u003cem\u003eTroubadours du Roi Baudouin\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50530280177995,"sku":"369527","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/266d3dc6-66fb-43f9-8d6e-a77a7c0fa98b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728075651"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/les-troubadours-du-roi-baudouin.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}