The Art of Courtly Love takes center stage on Duo Trobairitz's Hyperion CD The Language of Love, which is devoted to French troubadour and trouvère songs of the eleventh through thirteenth centuries. These are monophonic songs originally performed in the courts of France of that day, and performing them in modern times has proven a challenge; as ...
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 ...
To listen to the 1970s recordings of David Munrow and his Early Music Consort of London is to realize how pivotal they were in transforming early music from an academic specialty into a living performance tradition. The performances are based on thorough academic research, but they are varied, vital, and enthusiastic, meant for concert audiences ...
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 ...
The identity of the trouvère poet and composer Gaultier d'Épinal is much in dispute; the name has been hypothetically connected with two individuals, one active in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and the other active in the mid-thirteenth, dying in 1272. Whoever he may have been, the several dozen chansons attributed to him are ...
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