The Medieval Romantics: French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440 [IMPORT]

Donald Greig (Performer), Donald Grieg (Performer), Stephen Charlesworth (Performer), Anonymous (Composer), Codex Chantilly Anonymous (Composer), Codex Paris Reina 6771 Anonymous (Composer), French Anonymous (Composer), Montpellier MS Anonymous (Composer), Guillaume Dufay (Composer), Jacob de Senleches (Composer), Johannes de Porta (Composer), Johannes de Lymburgia (Composer), Guillaume de Machaut (Composer), J. de Porta (Composer), Jacob de Senleches (Composer), Solage (Composer), Paolo Tenorista (Composer), Gilet Velut (Composer), Adam de la Halle (Composer), Gothic Voices (Performer)

Product Details

• Performer: Donald Greig, Donald Grieg, Stephen Charlesworth, Gothic Voices
• Composer: Anonymous, Codex Chantilly Anonymous, Codex Paris Reina 6771 Anonymous, French Anonymous, Montpellier MS Anonymous, et al.
• Audio CD (November 19, 1993)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Hyperion UK
• ASIN: B000002ZOR
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #455,188 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rogers, i'm drooling over your voice., May 6, 2001

By	abraham aziz lorensozo "[e-mail]" (Israel) - See all my reviews

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 !!!

4.0 out of 5 stars Standing the test of time - truely beautiful, June 20, 2000

By	CMH (Illinois) - See all my reviews

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.