A Mediaeval Banquet: Music from the Age of Chivalry [Box set]

Martin Best (Composer), Anonymous (Composer, Orchestra), Beatriz de Dia (Composer), Gregorian Chant (Composer), Trouveres Anonymous (Composer), Troubadour Anonymous (Composer), French Traditional (Composer), Jaufre Rudel de Blaye (Composer), Montpellier MS Anonymous (Composer), Petrus de Cruce (Composer), Giraut de Bornelh (Composer), English Anonymous (Composer), Guillaume IX (Composer), Huon D'Oisy (Composer), King of Navarre Thibault IV (Composer), Marcabru (Composer), Blondel de Nesle (Composer), Moniot d'Arras (Composer), Bernart de Ventadorn (Composer), Raimbaut D'Aurenga (Composer), Mediaeval Consort (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Orchestra: Anonymous
• Composer: Martin Best, Anonymous, Beatriz de Dia, Gregorian Chant, Trouveres Anonymous, et al.
• Audio CD (May 18, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 6
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Nimbus Records
• ASIN: B00000J7VP
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,019 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #12 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Chants
  • #15 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Chansons
  • #20 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Partsongs

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A heapin' helpin' of early music, October 13, 2005

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R. Snare (Williamsburg, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Mediaeval Banquet: Music from the Age of Chivalry (Audio CD)

Wonderful from start to finish, this set is quite a sampler, with enjoyable selections performed and recorded well. I suspect some accomodation is being made to the comtemporary listener here and some of the performances may not be 100% "historically accurate." But so what? I've been listening to this at home and while out and about on my iPod. There's quite a variety here which causes the set to avoid the "sameness" of many other sets of this type I've purchased. And the price is defnitely right, particularly for a used copy. What've you got to lose? Give it a shot!

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars but what are they saying?, June 5, 2006

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Dr Tom (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Mediaeval Banquet: Music from the Age of Chivalry (Audio CD)

This is, musically, a wonderful set. But beware: there are no song text translations; a fatal oversight for six CDs of almost exclusively vocal music by composers to whom text was as important as melody, and in languages that don't exist anymore. In that regard, it was very disappointing.

7 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exclent cd for mediaeval music., November 8, 1999

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Ralph Hahn (Burlington, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Mediaeval Banquet: Music from the Age of Chivalry (Audio CD)

If your just getting into music from this time period this is the cd for you. It gives samples of music that dates from the 1100s to the 1400s.