French and English music, 1350-1420

Lancaster and Valois
French and English music, 1350-1420
Gothic Voices - Christopher Page
Hyperion CDA 66588
Hyperion "Helios" CDH 55294

Contents:

  1. Machaut: Donnez, signeurs (3 voices)
  2. Anon: Puis qu'autrement ne puis avoir (voice, harp, lute)
  3. Anon: Soit tart, tempre, main ou soir (4 voices)
  4. Solage: Tres gentil cuer (3 voices)
  5. Pycard: Credo (4 voices)
  6. Machaut: Quand je ne voy (voice, harp, lute)
  7. Anon: Le ior (harp)
  8. Anon: Avrai je ja de ma dame confort? (3 voices)
  9. Machaut: Riches d'amour (voice, harp)
  10. Machaut: Pas de tor en thies pais (3 voices)
  11. Sturgeon: Salve mater domini / Salve templus domini (3 voices)
  12. Anon: Sanctus (3 voices)
  13. Fonteyns: Regali ex progenie (3 voices)
  14. Cesaris: Mon seul voloir / Certes m'amour (3 voices)
  15. Cordier: Ce jour de l'an (3 voice)
  16. Cesaris: Se vous scaviez, ma tres douce maistresse (3 voices)
  17. Anon: Je vueil vivre au plaisir d'amours (4 voices)

Performers: Margaret Philpot, Rogers Covey-Crump, Andrew Tusa, Charles Daniels, Leigh Nixon, Stephen Charlesworth, Donald Grieg, Andrew Lawrence-King, Christopher King

Playing time: 59'

Recording date:
December 1991; rel.: 1992 (CDA), 2008 (CDH)

Reviewed in:
Fanfare (vol./#-p): 16/3- (Jan/Feb 1993) & 32/2-375 (Nov/Dec 2008)
Goldberg (y., #-p.): 2008, 53-83

This is a landmark recording, made after Gothic Voices had resolved a polyphonic vocalization style. It represents a certain set of ideas on vowel color and simultaneous vocal articulation. Much of the English music of the period is liturgical, and the Latin pieces above are from England.

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Todd M. McComb