Gothic Voices - Echoes of an Old Hall: Music from the Old Hall Manuscript (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 76:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | # CKD644 | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 337 Mb | Total time: 76:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | # CKD644 | Recorded: 2018
Gothic Voices’ eagerly awaited new album features music from The Old Hall Manuscript: a wonderful collection of classy compositions from late fourteenth- to early fifteenth-century England. It embodies the English ‘flavour’ of music of the time, with its smooth melodies and sweet harmonies, irresistible to Franco-Flemish composers writing a generation or so later, and known by them as the ‘Contenance Angloise’. This highly expressive and quirky music, ranging in atmosphere from gently suave strains to high-octane cascades of sound, benefits from the gorgeous acoustics of Boxgrove Priory.