This collection includes three Gramophone Award-winning CDs by early music ensemble Gothic Voices, founded and conducted by Christopher Page. A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Hildegard of Bingen (1980), was the group's first release and was one of several catalysts for a renewal of popular interest in Hildegard's music. The group is joined by soprano Emma Kirkby in singing Hildegard's distinctive, melodically remarkable monophonic chants, some as solos and some in choral unison, some unaccompanied and ...
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This collection includes three Gramophone Award-winning CDs by early music ensemble Gothic Voices, founded and conducted by Christopher Page. A Feather on the Breath of God: Sequences and Hymns by Hildegard of Bingen (1980), was the group's first release and was one of several catalysts for a renewal of popular interest in Hildegard's music. The group is joined by soprano Emma Kirkby in singing Hildegard's distinctive, melodically remarkable monophonic chants, some as solos and some in choral unison, some unaccompanied and some supported with a drone. Several of the selections are sung by men, a practice that would currently be looked on as historically questionable, but the lower voices do lend variety to the collection. A second disc, The Service of Venus and Mars: Music for the Knights of the Garter (1988), is devoted to English and French polyphonic music of the very late Middle Ages. It's the most musically diverse disc in the set, with pieces ranging from carols to ballades to complex isometric...
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