Gothic Voices Discography

Gothic Voices is one of the leading English medieval ensembles. Its director, Christopher Page, is known primarily for his arguments in favor of performing medieval secular polyphony entirely by voices. The group has acted as a crucible for these ideas, and has included some of England's finest early music singers since its founding in 1980.

The unprecedented success of their first album, one of the first devoted to Hildegard, has allowed the group a freedom to choose recording programs. They have centered their repertory on the 14th century (although moving increasingly into the 15th of late), and on the geographical regions of England and Northern France.

Recordings, listed chronologically by production date:

A Feather on the Breath of God

Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen
Hyperion 66039

The Mirror of Narcissus

Songs by Machaut
Hyperion 66087

The Garden of Zephirus

Courtly songs of the early fifteenth century
Hyperion 66144

The Castle of Fair Welcome

Courtly songs of the later 15th century
Hyperion 66194

The Service of Venus and Mars

Music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440
Hyperion 66238

A Song for Francesca

Music in Italy, 1330-1430
Hyperion 66286

Music for the Lion-Hearted King

Hyperion 66336

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Motets and Songs from Thirteenth Century France
Hyperion 66423

The Medieval Romantics

French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440
Hyperion 66463

Lancaster and Valois

French and English music, 1350-1420
Hyperion 66588

The Study of Love

French Songs and Motets of the 14th Century
Hyperion 66619

The Voice in the Garden

Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550
Hyperion 66653

The Spirits of England and France - I

Music for Court and Church from the later Middle Ages
Hyperion 66739

The Spirits of England and France - II

Songs of the Trouvères
Hyperion 66773

The Spirits of England and France - III

Binchois and his Contemporaries
Hyperion 66783

The Spirits of England and France - IV

Missa Caput / Story of the Salve Regina
Hyperion 66857

The Spirits of England and France - V

Missa Veterem hominem - An anonymous English Mass setting from c.1440
Hyperion 66919

La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix

Hyperion 67010

Jerusalem: Vision of Peace

Songs and Plainchants of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
Hyperion 67039

Masters of the Rolls

Music by English Composers of the Fourteenth Century
Hyperion 67098

The Earliest Songbook in England

Hyperion 67177

The Unknown Lover

Songs by Solage & Machaut
Avie 2089

A laurel for Landini

14th Century Italy's Greatest Composer
Gothic Voices / Andrew Lawrence-King
Avie 2151

Mary Star of the Sea

Linn Records 541

The Dufay Spectacle

Linn Records 568

Nowell synge we bothe al and som

A Feast of Christmas Music in Medieval England
Linn Records 591

Echoes of an Old Hall

Linn Records 644

The Splendour of Florence

With a Burgundian Resonance
Linn Records 700

A reissue collection:

Gothic Voices Gramophone Award Winners Collection

Hyperion CDS 44251/3 [CDx3]

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