A Feather on the Breath of God was the first release by the early music ensemble Gothic Voices, founded in 1980 by Christopher Page. The album was at the forefront of the surge of musical interest in Hildegard of Bingen, the remarkable twelfth century polymath who founded and managed two convents, exercised considerable political influence for a ...
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 ...
Christopher Page and the Gothic Voices' 1985 release The Garden of Zephyrus: Courtly Songs of the Early Fifteenth Century was the follow-up to their career-making 1984 recording A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen -- and it is nearly as beautiful as its predecessor albeit in an entirely different way. ...
Gothic Voices' collection of music by French and English composers written between the mid-fourteenth and the mid-fifteenth centuries is loosely organized around the association of English noblemen established by King Edward III, known as the Knights of the Garter. The chivalric order (which has continued to the present day) is perhaps better ...
In the history of western music, the works of the late Medieval period are among the most foreign-sounding to modern ears -- they can delight those who love musical novelty, but can seem just plain odd to listeners who are most at home in the Baroque/Classical/Romantic repertoire. The music often has a strong but irregular or shifting pulse, with ...
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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