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Medieval & Renaissance Minstrels, Songs & Dances(more) »rank: 25646from: Legacy
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Scattered Rhymes(more) »rank: 38158from: Harmonia Mundi
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Guillaume Du Fay: Mille Bonjours!(more) »rank: 94969from: Alpha Productions
:Album Description:Guillaume Dufay is one of the key representatives of the French musical genius. His masterful work is a comprehensive and brilliant apotheosis of the middle ages. |
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The Study of Love(more) »rank: 99380from: Hyperion UK
:Album Description:Guillaume Dufay is one of the key representatives of the French musical genius. His masterful work is a comprehensive and brilliant apotheosis of the middle ages. |
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Antoine Busnois: Missa O Crux lignum; Motets; Chansons(more) »rank: 118166by: Antoine Busnois, Orlando Consort
: :This all-Busnois disc is an early music fan's delight, especially as performed by the four accomplished singers of the Orlando Consort, who convey both the purity of Busnois' music and the many surprises lurking within it. The Mass is the 'big' work, almost half-an-hour in length. But interest never flags since the music is unfailingly inventive, the voices perfectly matched, the rhythms buoyant. The Mass is preceded and followed by selections of chansons, a hymn, and a pair of motets. In these too, the 15th-century master of polyphony constantly startles with unexpected twists and turns of the long musical lines. His ... |
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The Medieval Romantics: French Songs & Motets (1340-1440)(more) »rank: 112039from: Hyperion UK
: :This all-Busnois disc is an early music fan's delight, especially as performed by the four accomplished singers of the Orlando Consort, who convey both the purity of Busnois' music and the many surprises lurking within it. The Mass is the 'big' work, almost half-an-hour in length. But interest never flags since the music is unfailingly inventive, the voices perfectly matched, the rhythms buoyant. The Mass is preceded and followed by selections of chansons, a hymn, and a pair of motets. In these too, the 15th-century master of polyphony constantly startles with unexpected twists and turns of the long musical lines. His ... |
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The Medieval Romantics: French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440(more) »rank: 112809from: Hyperion UK
: :There are a few ensembles that you can count on consistently to deliver performances of the highest quality. Gothic Voices fit that description, and their many recordings of medieval music are invariably among the finest in the catalog. This disc, with its seemingly oxymoronic title, reveals aspects of 14th-century French music that suggest the term romantic is absolutely correct. Director Christopher Page's lucid liner notes explain,'if Romanticism implies a taste for beauty touched by strangeness, and if it is associated with a desire to expand the resources of musical language (especially harmony) . . . then the second half of the ... |
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The Mirror of Narcissus - Secular Songs by Guillaume de Machaut(more) »rank: 104900from: Hyperion UK
: :The second Gothic Voices recording was something of a milestone: the first recording of 14-century music performed by voices alone. The absence of instruments permits very precise tuning (no small matter in this repertory) and doesn't obscure Machaut's poetry (which was admired by no less than Geoffrey Chaucer). Belying its scholarly-but-dull reputation, Gothic Voices sings with plenty of energy and rhythmic snap; the monophonic songs, performed by a single unaccompanied voice, come off particularly well. The best example of this disc's achievement is the famous 'Douce dame jolie,' which has been done as everything from a catchy little ditty to a ... |
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Remede de Fortune(more) »rank: 163693from: New Albion Records
: :Machaut was not only a composer of liturgical music, but also was equally famous for his secular works. Among these secular pieces is 'Remede de Fortune' (Remedy of Fortune)-which became one of the most popular love poems in medieval Europe, securing Machaut's position as the premiere poet musician of 14th century France. The very lengthy work-- 4300 lines, selections of which are performed here--describes a deeply emotional outpouring of feelings of romantic love-of pain, desire, devotion, beauty, hope, and longing--which the speaker/writer never can reveal to the subject of his love. The poetic language is extraordinarily beautiful, and the melodies perfectly ... |
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Llibre Vermell De Montserrat(more) »rank: 99601from: Rhino / Wea
: :Machaut was not only a composer of liturgical music, but also was equally famous for his secular works. Among these secular pieces is 'Remede de Fortune' (Remedy of Fortune)-which became one of the most popular love poems in medieval Europe, securing Machaut's position as the premiere poet musician of 14th century France. The very lengthy work-- 4300 lines, selections of which are performed here--describes a deeply emotional outpouring of feelings of romantic love-of pain, desire, devotion, beauty, hope, and longing--which the speaker/writer never can reveal to the subject of his love. The poetic language is extraordinarily beautiful, and the melodies perfectly ... |

