Tydings Trew

Anonymous (Composer), English Anonymous (Composer), Gregorian Chant (Composer), Christmas Traditional (Composer), English Traditional (Artist), Lionheart (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Anonymous, English Anonymous, Gregorian Chant, Christmas Traditional
• Audio CD (October 7, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Koch Int'l Classics
• ASIN: B0000AYLIQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #127,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #30 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Chants

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A spiritual holiday treat, November 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Tydings Trew (Audio CD)

Lionheart once again delights with a splendid mixture of chants and hymns, this time centered on medieval Christmas fare. Their sense of ensemble and balance is magical - there are no individuals in this group - they sing as one luscious voice.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Christmas music, December 25, 2007

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Darel Paul (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tydings Trew (Audio CD)

This is an excellent change of pace Christmas album. Lionheart here presents 22 hymns, carols, motets and antiphons popular in late medieval England. The selections offer a commendable mixture of Latin motets and hymns from the Divine Office on the one hand, and carols in Middle English on the other. If you own The New Oxford Book of Carols, you will find many of the best pre-1700 selections sung here to an exceptionally high standard. Lionheart's sound is fantastic. They are quite frankly as good as Chanticleer.

Although the physical copy of this album is $1 more than the price of the downloaded album, the booklet with background information to individual musical pieces and all the lyrics (in their original language and in modern English translation) is worth far more than the price difference. Spend the extra $1 and get the CD.

If Adeste Fidelis and Joy to the World are wearing thin, this is some truly Old School Christmas music to sweep you to a different era and to a tremendous level of solemnity.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best male early music group, January 14, 2008

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John E. Slavick (New York, N.Y., USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tydings Trew (Audio CD)

Heard this in concert at the Cloisters in New York. It confirms our belief that Lionheart is the best male early music group we have heard.