The four women of Anonymous 4 are not the first early music ensemble to release an album of American religious music, but they bring to American Angels their characteristic precise harmony singing and investigative musical spirit. American Angels is largely devoted to shape-note hymnody, a tradition so called because the note heads in its printed ...
After 18 years spent together on the road and in the recording studio, Anonymous 4 decided to call it a day at the end of its 2004 touring season. Sad news for the early music world to be sure, but Anonymous 4 has decided to go out with a bang rather than a whimper, producing as its last scheduled Harmonia Mundi album a second collection of ...
The Codex Calixtinus, a document housed at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, includes an odd assortment of writings relating to St. James the Greater -- sermons, lessons, miracle stories, guides to medieval pilgrimage routes, grammatical exercises for schools boys, and a wealth of chant, as well as some of the earliest examples of two- and ...
Anonymous 4, the a cappella women's vocal quartet, has recorded a number of albums of sacred music for the Christmas season, and this set is a reissue of four of the most popular -- Legends of St. Nicholas: Medieval European Chant and Polyphony, Wolcum Yule: Celtic and British Songs and Carols, On Yoolis Night: Medieval Carols and Motets, and A ...
It is difficult to imagine a better celebration of the immense spiritual and historical richness of Yuletide than this multi-faceted and deeply rewarding disc. Accompanied by Andrew Lawrence-King, who plays the Irish harp, Baroque harp, and psaltery with exquisite grace and refined expressiveness, the crystalline voices of the Anonymous 4 weave an ...
The Codex Calixtinus, a document housed at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, includes an odd assortment of writings relating to St. James the Greater -- sermons, lessons, miracle stories, guides to medieval pilgrimage routes, grammatical exercises for schools boys, and a wealth of chant, as well as some of the earliest examples of two- and ...
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