Helios is the subsidiary of Hyperion that reactivates its full-price catalog titles that have been unavailable for a while. The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices, and throughout the series as a whole there are some splendid performances of work drawn from the vast canon of unaccompanied medieval vocal music. The idea behind the series was to contrast examples drawn from the ample extant French medieval literature with the more scant ...
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Helios is the subsidiary of Hyperion that reactivates its full-price catalog titles that have been unavailable for a while. The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices, and throughout the series as a whole there are some splendid performances of work drawn from the vast canon of unaccompanied medieval vocal music. The idea behind the series was to contrast examples drawn from the ample extant French medieval literature with the more scant English variety, and overall it demonstrates that Franco-Flemish musical practice had more in common with the English than to other music-producing cultures during this era, even as England and France were continually warring with one another.This first volume, subtitled "Music for Court and Church from the Later Middle Ages," is an odd mixture of various things and may represent Gothic Voices getting their feet wet in this concept. Among the most notable successes here are the four...
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