Trio Mediaeval is a group of three women from Norway who sing unaccompanied harmonies using medieval polyphony as a point of departure. Even given that we can never really know what 800-year-old music sounded like in its own time, it can be said that they remake medieval pieces according to their own wishes rather than researching their original ...
Tonus Peregrinus is a group of expert singers who come together once in awhile to attack a special project, this one being Léonin/Pérotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Naxos' early music series. Any attempt to perform or record twelfth century polyphony requires some ingenuity in preparing a text that remains musical, yet makes ...
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 ...
This three-CD set from Harmonia Mundi purports on the packaging to offer "the finest masses in musical history." Of course that's an impossible goal, and the liner notes back off from it with various disclaimers. The question to ask about a set like this, assembled from existing Harmonia Mundi releases going back to 1986, is whether it either ...
U.K.-based Coro label has concentrated on a useful series of reissues of Harry Christophers' group the Sixteen, releases originally made for Collins Classics but stranded when that company shuttered its doors in 1999. With Pérotin and the Ars Antiqua, Coro turns its attention to a different project, Hilliard Live, a series of live recordings taken ...
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 ...
The cover of this "inspection of love" suggests one of the many collections of courtly love songs that flowered in the late medieval period. But actually the contents are something different and, as with all the various discs by the ensemble La Reverdie, quite intellectually challenging. In fact, the group almost completely avoids the conventional ...
Does a plain copper cover say "Christmas" to you? The entire presentation of this album is rather intimidating, which is something of a shame considering the simple, appealing contents -- Christmas hymns from various eras of early music up to the late Renaissance, sung by a really expert male quintet. The tale told by the booklet stretches back to ...
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