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Offer, Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of God
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Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
Gothic Voices chose to perform the hymns and sequences with great simplicity, alternating a single voice with unison voices over drones. Bingen's spellbinding melodies are clear and meditative,... — More…
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Dufay: Les Messes à Teneur
Cut Circle, Jesse Rodin
These are all top-rate singers with pure and excellently focused voices: every one of them appears here as a soloist in one of the duet sections, and the intonation and ensemble are beyond reproach — More…
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2 CDs
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Western Wind
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Music By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive... — More…
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Offer, Machaut: Sovereign Beauty
The Orlando Consort
Machaut at his most engaging and varied...this really is one bullseye after another...Rarely since the Gothic Voices has the vocalisation of the lower lines appeared so self-evidently the right... — More…
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Offer, Music for the 100 Years' War
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
A fascinating musical account of the English court from the late 14th century onwards. The Binchois Consort is on stellar form. — More…
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In this ingeniously assembled collection they delight us with songs of defiance and gentle rebuke directed against the gossips and naysayers of 14th and 15th century society. The result is a... — More…
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Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts (Missa Ecco si Beato Giorno)
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I Fagiolini, Robert Hollingworth
The instruments transfigure much of this music. They do the heavy lifting for some of the choir parts in the Mass and Ecce beatum lucem, contribute to the spacious sonorities, and add delicate... — More…
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Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Graindelavoix, Bjorn Schmelzer
Grandelevoix explore the sacred in Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame with portamento and vocal twists and turns, shocking with visceral, stone-ground sonorities in exciting, idiosyncratic,... — More…
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Arnold & Hugo de Lantins: Secular Works
Le Miroir De Musique, Baptiste Romain
The vocal pieces are performed equally well with some arresting imitative singing in Celsa sublimatur, calm beauty in Tota pulchra es…and extraordinary fluency in the complex cross-rhythms of... — More…
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Offer, Gothic Voices
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Gramophone Award Winners Collection
Emma Kirkby (soprano) & Andrew Lawrence-King (harp)
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
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3 CDs
($17.50) $14.00