Helios is the subsidiary of Hyperion that reactivates its full-price catalog titles that have been unavailable for a while. The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices, and throughout the series as a whole there are some splendid performances of work drawn from the ...
Gothic Voices is a durable British ensemble that has performed medieval secular music mostly in vocal a cappella style. You may or may not like that approach, but if you'd like to give it a try, this disc contains repertory in which unaccompanied singing works well. The group sings some of the fixed-form chansons of Machaut -- and not the usual ...
The title of this album by the Orlando Consort -- Medieval Christmas -- should be taken at face value -- this is not the kind of familiar merry Renaissance music that is sung and played by costumed revelers at madrigal dinners, this is unaccompanied vocal music primarily of the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, presented without ...
Some scholars believe that the music of the Notre Dame period, the Ars Antiqua and Ars Nova movements (approximately 1250-1320 and 1320-1380 respectively) are the foundations of the Western classical music tradition. This is music worth investigating, and The Early Music Consort of London, under the direction of David Munrow, do a superb job of ...
The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices. The idea behind the series was to contrast examples drawn from the ample extant French medieval literature with the more scant English variety, and overall it demonstrates that Franco-Flemish musical practice had more in ...
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 ...
Marcel Pérès and Ensemble Organum's Codex Chantilly: Ballades & Rondeaux takes on the toughest of all medieval manuscript collections this side of the Llibre Vermell, the Codex Chantilly, a late fourteenth century gathering of 112 pieces that is our primary testimony to the ars subtilior, a kind of avant-garde music favored at the papal court ...
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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