Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre Dame
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Gautier de Coincy: Miracles of Notre Dame $21.98 Thirteenth-century troubador Gautier de Coincy’s blend of mystical religious poetry and the popular tunes to which he set his poems proves irresistible, especially in the Harp Consort’s lively renditions. Given the nature of the material, the sheer variety of rhythms, sounds, and colors on this disc is astounding; the vocal soloists are all excellent, the small chorus adept, captivating when it si… |
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Gautier De Coincy: Les Miracles de Nostre-Dame $16.99 If not for the music manuscripts that have survived from the Middle Ages, we would know infinitely less about ancient life, morals, attitudes, priorities, and behavior. The 12th and 13th-century world would also seem far less colorful if not for our ability to experience songs such as those on this disc. These songs are the product of the prolific and apparently quite gifted writer Gautier de Coin… |
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August 16th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Brimming with exuberance,
Every recording by Andrew Lawrence-King is something of an event. Few recording artists in the Medieval-Renaissance Music field produce such consistently instantly fascinating sounds as he does. In fact he deserves to have something of a cult following both amongst general music listeners (I mean people who would usually never listen to mainstream Classical Music) as well as Early Music afficianados. If you have never listened to Medieval Music in your life this would be a fine place to start for there are pieces here that will have you dancing on your table out of sheer exuberance.
Les Miracles de Notre-Dames were the creation of Gautier de Coincy in the early 1200′s. The songs are all based on trouvére love poetry – applied not to courtly love but to the Virgin Mary.
Instruments on display here include medieval harps, cornetto, vielle, shawn, organetto, psaltery, bagpipes as well as vocal parts. The spirit of the music is far from that of plain chant, rather being sometimes closer to that of ‘pagan excesses of peasant celebrations’ as the excellent liner notes describe it. The church simply took in these popular trends and transformed them into more respectable Marian music.
Another triumph by Andrew Lawrence-King. Enthusiastically recommended!
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|August 16th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Magnificent Medieval Music,
I was first exposed to Medieval and Renaissance Music when I took a course for musical illiterates in college. We could not read music, but we could listen. Being exposed to only popular music, it suprised me how much I loved ancient music. I have collected many recordings of this music over the last 30 years. Miracles of Notre-Dame is absolutely the best recording of music in the troubadour tradition that I have ever heard. Of course, you would not expect anything less than a magnificent product from Harmonia Mundi. I have played this recording repeatedely. It is not a CD you will put aside and listen to months later. If you have any interest in music of this time, you must have this. The singing. the playing, the music are not to be missed.
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|August 16th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Masterful,
Even if secular medieval music is NOT one of your favorites genres, the energy and mystical beauty of this CD shines throughout all 20 tracks. The recording quality is magnificent. I cannot recommend this CD strongly enough!
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