The Voice in the Garden: Spanish Songs and Motets 1480-1550 (1993)

Hyperion's The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page, is 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 ... Read More

Hyperion's The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page, is 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 trigger the volume jockey in some, but the disc as a whole is actually comfortably balanced and to best enjoy it one should leave the volume knob in one place. In The Voice in... Read Less

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