The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices. 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 ...
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The Spirits of England and France is the first volume in a series of five recorded by Christopher Page's group Gothic Voices. 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 monophonic pieces on the program, sung byAndrew Tusa, Paul Agnew, Julian Podger, and Leigh Nixon, respectively; all of these are beautifully done. Nixon ably sings the conductus "In rama sonat gemitus," a sad piece dating from 1160 that laments the exile of...
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