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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Hyperion's The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page, is subtitled "Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550"; this disc presents a mixed recital of popular songs, Latin religious pieces, and instrumental solos that provides the panoramic view of middle-renaissance Spanish culture. Page and his group have studied the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Francesco Landini, who died in 1397, was long known through just a few pieces chosen to represent Italian music of the fourteenth century. Recordings treating his music in more detail, however, and this one by Britain's Gothic Voices, can stand up to any of them. The mixed-voice group (one women, four men) takes a sparse approach, with many pieces ...
Helios' The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page and originally released on Hyperion, comes from a time when the early music revival movement was at its peak of popularity and is nevertheless outstanding even within that context. Subtitled "Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550," this disc presents a mixed recital of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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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