The Chaucer Songbook

Carol Wood (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Carol Wood
• Audio CD (June 8, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eroica Classical Recordings
• ASIN: B00004U4SQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #293,939 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Angelus ad virginem (English)

2. Symlen Ben-bys (The beckoning fair one)

3. Nes que on porroit, ballade for 3 voices

4. King Orfeo

5. arranged as "My lief is faren in a Londe"

6. arranged as "My lief is faren in a Londe"

7. Sanctus [Roy ("Roi") Henry]

8. Alma Redemptoris Mater

9. The Pear Tree (tune: Pray for us)

10. I Have a gentil cock (tune: I Pray you all), for voice, harp & percussi

11. Ich am or Irlaunde (after medieval Bendicite Deo), for harp, voice, rec

12. Edi Beo Thu, Hevene Queene, carol (English)

13. Roundel of the Birds (after Machaut's Le lay de plour), for harp, voice

14. Ton y Brenhim, for harp

15. Maid in the Moor

16. Alma Redemptoris Mater

17. Glenkindie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Relaxing and Beautiful Trip into the Middle Ages, July 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Chaucer Songbook (Audio CD)

The singing and playing on this disk, as well as the music itself, is quite wonderful. There is also an extremely interesting, informative, and attractive booklet that comes with it filled with a great deal of information about Chaucer, the music, the sources of the music, and translations. Whether one is interested in Chaucer or not, the music is very compelling and quite beautiful, and all the facts about the Middle Ages were quite interesting, too. All three of the female vocalists are superb, as is the harp playing and the other instrumental music. I have listened to this CD many times now and find it very relaxing, especially after a day of work. So it has my highest recommedation for several reasons.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Refreshing Change, February 13, 2003

By 

Dorothy Douglas (Santa Fe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Chaucer Songbook (Audio CD)

Carol Wood is a well-known Celtic scholar with a Ph.D. in Medieval Welsh literature and several books on Celtic poetry and early music. I once had the pleasure of hearing her perform in Paris. Her approach to early music and to the performance of the works on this beautiful disk as well as on her other CDs is a refreshing change from those pseudo-"authentic" performances on pseudo-"ancient" instruments that self-styled "scholars" insist is the only "correct" approach. Her love of this music comes through in the joy of her performance and in her truly "professional" and "scholarly" approach to it. I heartily recommend it to all lovers of early music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Hit Wonder...NOT!!!, January 18, 2006

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P. Vanderlinden "H-Town Hustler" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Chaucer Songbook (Audio CD)

There is so much more to this album than "I Have A Gentil Cock". Like most, I originally purchased the album for this harmonious hit single, but after a few months I was beginning to get burnt out on it. I eventually decided to give the rest of the CD a try and was amazed. DONT MAKE THE MISTAKE I MADE!!! Dont get me wrong, "I Have A Gentil Cock" is a brilliantly mastered song but please do yourself a favor and give the rest of this cd a try. You wont be sorry!