Canadian ensemble Anonymous has collected a variety of French, Italian, and Spanish pieces from the medieval and early Renaissance periods and organized them seasonally. Each month is represented by one or more pieces, secular or sacred, instrumental or vocal, that are thematically related to the season. For the most part, the CD avoids the most familiar representatives of this repertoire that tend to show up on compilations like this one, and offers a diverting miscellany that includes chansons, several varieties of ...
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Canadian ensemble Anonymous has collected a variety of French, Italian, and Spanish pieces from the medieval and early Renaissance periods and organized them seasonally. Each month is represented by one or more pieces, secular or sacred, instrumental or vocal, that are thematically related to the season. For the most part, the CD avoids the most familiar representatives of this repertoire that tend to show up on compilations like this one, and offers a diverting miscellany that includes chansons, several varieties of estampies, saltarellos, and liturgical song. Ensemble Anonymous sings and plays the pieces with energy and obvious enjoyment, but also with restraint and a concern for correctness that keeps the music from really soaring. Particularly in its attention to rhythmic regularity and precision, it fails to take into account the rambunctious social settings in which much of the secular music would have been originally played. The most effective performances of secular music from these periods are...
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