Program: #15-20, Air Date: 05/11/15
She was a friend to many in the early music world (including us); this week, music from her last projects with the Medieval Women’s Choir and Shira Kammen.
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🔊 Three Medieval Discs
Program: #05-14, Air Date: 03/28/05
This program features three new releases in medieval music.
Read more and hear this show…Ars Subtilior and Solage–The Transition from Late Medieval to the Renaissance
Program: #07-18 , Air Date: 04/23/07
The time after Machaut's death was marked by unusual complexities of rhythm, notation, and text called Ars Subtilior--a new disc by the Gothic Voices focuses on the shadowy figure of "Solage," active in French court circles in the 1380s. Not only are some of the pieces recorded of the first time, this disc adds ten works never before attributed to the oeuvre of Solage on stylistic grounds.
Read more and hear this show…Machaut’s Motets & the Blessed Henry Suso–The Transition from Late Medieval to the Renaissance
Program: #07-17 , Air Date: 04/16/07
Thanks to the work of Anne Walters Robertson, we have an amazing theory--that the motets 1-17 of Machaut form a vast cycle on the aspects of spiritual love as delineated by the popular mystic and Dominican friar, Blessed Henry Suso in his treatise "Wisdom's Watch Upon the Hours"--and with two recent recordings, we can track these astounding works.
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