This collection includes three Gramophone Award-winning CDs by early music ensemble Gothic Voices, founded and conducted by Christopher Page. A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Hildegard of Bingen (1980), was the group's first release and was one of several catalysts for a renewal of popular interest in Hildegard's music. The ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a collection of some of the earliest motets, dating from the thirteenth century, an era bereft of composers' names and, for most of us, devoid of context. Thankfully, Christopher Page and Gothic Voices add some monophonic trouvère songs by named composers into the mix and, as Page points out in his dense but very ...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a collection of some of the earliest motets, dating from the thirteenth century, an era bereft of composers' names and, for most of us, devoid of context. Thankfully, Christopher Page and Gothic Voices add some monophonic trouvère songs by named composers into the mix and, as Page points out in his dense but very ...
This disc, originally released in 1992, is part of a series of three covering French music of the fourteenth century. Several of the singers and players in director Christopher Page's Gothic Voices have gone on to careers of their own, and in general the performances sound as strong as they did when they first appeared. At the budget price of the ...
Lancaster and Valois: French & English Music, ca.1350-1420 features the English early music vocal group Gothic Voices firing on all cylinders in a much loved repertoire: surveying musical currents beginning with Guilliame Machaut and leading up to the dawn of the Renaissance in about 1420. This era is the dominion of single-named composers ...
One could not be blamed for thinking the title of this Gothic Voices collection of late fourteenth and early fifteenth century French chansons and motets -- The Medieval Romantics -- as a little oxymoronic. After all, didn't the Romantics live some four centuries later? Yes, they did, but there's no shortage of examples of late medieval music that ...
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