Helios' The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page and originally released on Hyperion, comes from a time when the early music revival movement was at its peak of popularity and is nevertheless outstanding even within that context. Subtitled "Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550," this disc presents a mixed recital of popular songs, Latin religious pieces, and instrumental solos that provides the panoramic view of middle-renaissance Spanish culture. Page and his group have studied the accents of ...
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Helios' The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page and originally released on Hyperion, comes from a time when the early music revival movement was at its peak of popularity and is nevertheless outstanding even within that context. Subtitled "Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550," this disc presents a mixed recital of popular songs, Latin religious pieces, and instrumental solos that provides the panoramic view of middle-renaissance Spanish culture. Page and his group have studied the accents of the highly colloquial Spanish language of this era and deliver the music in a slightly casual and slangy way, not employing the usual purity of tone heard in their realizations of English and French music, though this approach is utilized on a couple of the Latin sacred pieces heard here. The instrumental pieces, taken from intabulations, are beautifully played by Christopher Wilson on vihuela and Andrew Lawrence-King. These come through much quieter than the vocal pieces and may...
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