The Medieval Romantics: French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440
Editorial Reviews
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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 14th century in France was truly a period of Romantic composition." You won't disagree, whether you're listening to the anonymous, harmonically ravishing rondeau that begins the disc or to a delightful virelai by Machaut. --David Vernier
The Medieval Romantics: French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440, Music, Margaret Philpot, Donald Greig, Donald Grieg, Stephen Charlesworth, Anonymous, Anonymous Notre Dame School, Codex Chantilly Anonymous, French Anonymous, Guillaume Dufay, Jacob de Senleches, Johannes de Lymburgia, Guillaume de Machaut, J. de Porta, Solage, Paolo Tenorista, Gilet Velut, Gothic Voices, Andrew Lawrence-King, Andrew Tusa, Charles Daniels, Leigh Nixon, Rogers Covey-Crump, Chamber, Chamber Music, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Early Music / Chant, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Miscellaneous Vocal Music, Part Song/Glee/Music for Unaccompanied Voices, Rondeau, Virelai, Vocal, Vocal Music
Average customer rating:
- Rogers, i'm drooling over your voice.
- Standing the test of time - truely beautiful
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The Medieval Romantics: French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440
Manufacturer: Hyperion
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Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000002ZOR
Release Date: 1993-11-19 |
Tracks:
- Quiconques Veut D'amors Joir
- Je Languis D'amere Mort
- Joieux De Cuer En Seumellant Estoye
- Quant Voi Le Douz Tans; En Mai; [Immo]LATUS
- Alma Polis Religio; Axe Poli Cum Artica
- C'est Force, Faire Le Weil
- Sofrir M'estuet Et Plus No Puis Durer
- Plus Bele Que Flors; Quant Revient; L'autrier Jouer
- Tant Doucement Me Sense Emprisonnes
- Degentis Vita; Cum Vix Artidici
- Mais Qu'il Vous Viengne A Plaisance
- En Ce Gracieux Tamps Joli
- Comment Qu'a Moy Lonteinne
- Je Requier A Tous Amoureux
- Las, Que Feray? Ne Que Je Devenray?
- Je Voel Servir Plus C'onques Mais
- Tota Pulcra Es, Amica Mea
Amazon.com
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 14th century in France was truly a period of Romantic composition." You won't disagree, whether you're listening to the anonymous, harmonically ravishing rondeau that begins the disc or to a delightful virelai by Machaut. --David Vernier
Customer Reviews:
Rogers, i'm drooling over your voice........2001-05-06
I first heard this cd when i went to see nature, at a forestnear my house and my friend made me a surprise & gave me this cdas a gift ... i heard it in my disk-man. i was amazed of the beautiful voices (especialy rogers covey-cromp! his voice is so warm and sensual.)i love french songs from the 14th century,they are so sensitive to true beauty and this album has its own fasson. buy it !!!
Standing the test of time - truely beautiful.......2000-06-20
The Medieval Romantics is a beautiful album. Each song is done with subtle, contemplative passion and shows a very rich, melodious and complicated thought process.
You can see bits and pieces of these songs and motets laying the way for the coming Renaissance.
The Gothic Voices have painstakingly tried to reproduce what these very old songs probably would have sounded like as there is very minimum background instruments.
This album has a strange beauty all it's own and is a study of where we have come from as a species in our music, man's soul.
Worth every penny.
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