5.0 out of 5 stars
A Tapestry in Music, September 7, 2011
This review is from: Pérotin and the Ars Antiqua (Audio CD)
A delightful presentation of music by Magister Perotin performed by the Hilliard Ensemble. For this listener, the extraordinary long syllables of the Viderunt Omnes are one of the highlights of this collection of organa by the master whose compositions laid the foundations for the development and wider adoption of polyphonic harmony in Western music. To hear this music is (with perhaps the exception of the applause that greets the Ensemble in the opening track) to eavesdrop on some of the finest avant-garde music-making of thirteenth century Paris.
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