Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

On this CD:

1. O Virgo splendens (Llibre Vermell)
Composed by Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

2. Los Set gotxs recomptarem
Composed by Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

3. Stella splendens in monte
Composed by Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

4. Laudemus virginem...Splendens ceptigera (Llibre Vermell)
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

5. Cuncti simus concanentes
Composed by Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

6. Mariam Matrem Virginem
Composed by Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

7. Nota Cantionis de illo viro Capistrano
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

8. Imperayritz de la Ciutat Joiosa (Livre Vermeil de Montserrat)
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

9. Tuba Gallicalis
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

10. Polorum regina (Llibre Vermell)
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

11. Cedit Frigus, Virelais a 1 (Codex Ripoll, Paris, BN lat. 5132: fol. 108)
Composed by Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

12. Ad Mortem Festinamus (fol. 26v)
Composed by Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Performed by Theatrum Instrumentorum

Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, Music, Gabriele Coltri, Simona Bozzoli, Anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Virelai, Vocal
The Black Madonna
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Bursting with Visceral Life and Earthy Joy!
  • Unexpected delight
  • Would be Worth Buying at Three Times the Price
  • Here's my two cents
  • a window on another world
 The Black Madonna

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ASIN: B000007N63
Release Date: 1998-05-26

Tracks:

  1. Cuncti simus concanentes
  2. Quant voi la flor novele
  3. A Madre do que a bestia
  4. Amours, ou trop tart me sui pris
  5. Quant ay lomon consirat
  6. Mariam, matrem Virginem
  7. O Virgo splendens
  8. Tanto son da groriosa
  9. Comencerai a fere un lai
  10. Cantiga de Santa Maria No.77-119
  11. O Maria, maris stella
  12. Los set gotxs

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Bursting with Visceral Life and Earthy Joy!.......2007-02-16

Hard to believe we can buy this precious gem for under $10 -- and what a gem it is! Easily my favourite medieval music CD. This isn't museum music, or a cerebral esoteric dip into European medieval cultures. This music leaps out and grabs you -- recalling images of everything from the still smile of a 13th-century Madonna to the chaos of Breugel and Bosch. Belinda Sykes' voice is alive with earth, grit, heat, and a transcendent beauty that needs to be experienced to be believed. The musicians are magicians: they'll have you dancing, singing, praying -- getting your bare feet soiled in the hot holy dust of a pilgrim's trail: enjoy!

5 out of 5 stars Unexpected delight.......2006-08-29

Not sure what I was expecting, but this is a very refreshing collection. Hypnotic and robust at the same time. Two thumbs up -- 'at's all I got.

5 out of 5 stars Would be Worth Buying at Three Times the Price.......2006-02-19

One of the hidden gems of the Naxos catalog are the series of recordings of Medieval music by the Ensemble Unicorn with Michael Posch. The music they choose to record here comes from the 14th century Llivre Vermell de Monstserrat preserved there in an codex of five parts. The book resulted from an attempt to set contemporary popular music to spiritual texts to help to reach out to a wider audience.

This CD is exemplary in every possible way. The liner notes written by Michael Posch himself are superb. Furthermore, the recorded sound quality is pretty much audiophile grade and runs rings around those produced by major record labels for the fraction of the price. The music making is beautiful, evocative and fascinating with all performances having the intensity and brilliance you can always count on from this superb ensemble.

Very highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars Here's my two cents.......2006-02-10

Let me add my two cents to the laudatory reviews already given. I bought this CD some time ago when I was developing an interest in early music. The title and the theme fascinated me. Also it was inexpensive, and I know from my experience that NAXOS, even though inexpensive, delivers quality goods. I was not the least disappointed. This is the music of an important era in history brilliantly performed by Unicorn Ensemble and Belinda Sykes. Belinda Sykes deserves to be better known than she is. She has a marvelous voice, and her delivery is without peer. When she sings, I am transported back to the days of those pilgrims whose songs she is singing. This music is not like other music. at times it may seem raucous. Just keep in mind the epoch from which these songs come. Open your mind. I assure you that you will be transformed.

5 out of 5 stars a window on another world.......2005-12-05

I picked up this cd because of a family connection with the Black Madonna of Monserrat. She's an integral part of the religious life of my dad's hometown. I thought the cd would make a good present for my dad but I didn't really expect the music to be anything special. However, I was simply blown away upon listening to it. This is an incredible blend of voice, rhythm and percussion that conveys the earthiness and transcendence of peasant pilgrim experience. I'm not a fan of early music -- I don't dislike it, I just don't know that much about it. Most of the early music I have listened to, however, is nowhere near as textured and intricate as these songs. What's amazing to my ears is that arrangements manage to sound both ancient and startlingly contemporary at the same time. I'm betting that sooner or later, someone will be giving these songs a trance-music treatment -- if that hasn't already happened.
Pilgrimage to Santiago
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Transcendant spiritual beauty
  • More Gardiner than "Renaissance", but nonetheless undeniably vivid...
 Pilgrimage to Santiago

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ASIN: B000IFRPUA
Release Date: 2006-11-14

Tracks:

  1. Dum Pater Familias
  2. Congaudeant Catholici
  3. O Virgo Splendens
  4. Parce Mihi Domine
  5. Alma Perpetui
  6. Jesu Rex Admirabilis
  7. Rite Majorem
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  10. Psallat Chorus Caelestium
  11. Gloria
  12. O Lux Et Decus Hispaniae
  13. Sanctus
  14. Benedictus
  15. O Venerande Christi
  16. Agnus Dei
  17. Nesciens Mater
  18. O Maria Vernans Rosa
  19. Vadam Et Circuibo
  20. Justorum Animae
  21. Sanctus

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Transcendant spiritual beauty.......2007-05-19

After arriving at the end of this astonishing CD, any critical objectivity was swept away by the sheer transcendent quality of these performances. One need not be religious to understand something out of the ordinary is happening here. This was recorded in London in between performances in France and Spain where the choir hiked from town to town and performed the program in abbeys and churches, ending with a performance in the Cathedral of Santiago de Campostela.Surely the memories of those churches, their extraordinary spiritual qualities and acoustics, remained in the singer's ears and hearts during this recording session. So much of it is so beautiful, with the motet 'O Maria vernans rosa' by Clemens non papa being for me the highlight. It is hard to imagine anything more transcendant than the soaring treble lines and prismatic harmonies in that music.All that is missing are the candles and the incense. Glorious!

5 out of 5 stars More Gardiner than "Renaissance", but nonetheless undeniably vivid..........2007-01-22

In his first non-Bach recording for the Monteverdi Choir's own 'Soli deo gloria' label, John Eliot Gardiner presents a sublime programme of works from the 12th-16th centuries inspired by the renowned Santiago pilgrim route. If the CD does not quite surpass the Monteverdi Choir's 2005 recording of similar music ('Santiago a cappella', Universal/Emarcy 0028947630104), it is still by any account a magnificent achievement. The performances exhibit both impeccable ensemble and near-faultless intonation, and are beautifully encaptured within a warm and reverberant acoustic. In addition, Gardiner frequently exploits a slow 'tactus' to great effect, resulting in readings which are spiritually charged and spacious (perhaps most obviously in Morales' ubiquitous 'Parce mihi Domine', Mouton's 'Nesciens mater' and Clemens 'O Maria vernans rosa').

If there can be any criticism of the disc, it is that, at times, the towering force of Gardiner's musical personality is perhaps a little too dominant. In his defence, Gardiner makes no pretence that this is anything but a highly idiosyncratic account, a fact as obvious from the presentation (note the CD cover and booklet notes featuring personal reflections from himself [pp.1-2] and members of the choir [pp.34-5]) as from the performances themselves. A number of the interpretations, for example, rely on a rhetorical approach to dynamics and tempo arguably more appropriate to late 16th/early 17th century secular music than 'prima prattica' (and earlier) sacred music, and whilst this musicological liberty is often effective, sometimes it is not. The declamatory 'forte' outbursts of Dufay's 'Rite majorem' are indicative of this over-emphasis on text; similarly the rather organic tempo in Victoria's motet 'O quam gloriosum' sounds a little mannered in places and seems to contradict what is known about tempo in Renaissance music (see below *). Additionally, the choice of forces (see below **) and occasional mannerisms (such as the clipped 'Hosanna' in the Sanctus and Benedictus of Victoria's Mass) are powerfully suggestive of the mixed-voice Cambridge choral tradition of Rutter, Marlow and Brown (Gardiner himself having studied there). And incidentally, why is the Credo from Victoria's Mass silently omitted...?!

If the overall result, then, is really more a personal invitation to Gardiner's insight than an accurate representation of the selected works, this does not detract from the profound and ethereal experience which is created upon listening to this marvellous release. Highly recommended.


(*) It would be dangerous to interpret sources too literally, but it surely significant that contemporary theorists almost consistently relate the tactus to mediums with a regular factor, most commonly the heartbeat (e.g. Ramis de Pareia [1482], Adam of Fulda [1490], etc...), but also breathing (Gaffurius, 1496), walking (Buchner c.1520), etc.
(**) Performance of Iberian polyphony with instruments - rather than 'a cappella' (as here) - is well documented, and Santiago Cathedral itself boasted 4 salaried ministriles from 1539. In Rome too, where Victoria's Mass was published (1583), instrumental participation was common. The English jesuit Gregory Martin, describing music in Roman churches c.1576-8, for example, notes: "...with the Organs a childes voice shriller and louder than the instrument, tuneable with every pipe: Among the quyre, Cornet or Sagbut, or such like above the voices..." (Roma Sancta, 1581, p.96)
From Byzantium to Andalusia: Medieval Music and Poetry
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 From Byzantium to Andalusia: Medieval Music and Poetry

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ASIN: B000EBEGWS
Release Date: 2006-03-21

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars nonexpert.......2007-06-28

I am not anyone to comment on the authenticity of this music. I have no idea how accurately it represents Medieval Mediterranean music. It sounds like it does: it sounds the way I might imagine the music of the period.

Regardless, the one thing I am qualified to evaluate is my pleasure listening to it. My favorite track is the first one, the Arab kyrie. Not quite like anything I've ever heard, but I would certainly go to any church where I could hear it.

This CD has helped to whet my appetite for more such music, and I suspect it would do so for anyone. If you are shopping here, I think you should strongly consider buying this one. I would, however, direct you to two other CDs as well (reminding you that I am by no means a knowledgeable person in this field): Sufi music such as Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (though there are many other less famous examples, at least as good), and Arab Christian music, especially Marie Keyrouz. If there is a god, that is the music he hears in heaven. But excepting those two sources of superlatively uplifting music, this is among the best CDs I own. At its price, it's too good to miss.

5 out of 5 stars Great CD!.......2007-05-19

I expected to like this one, so I wasn't surprised. The Kyrie is definitely catchy. This is a terrific cd.
Spanish Music of Travel and Discovery/ The Waverly Consort
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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  • A reworking of a prior disc - but now with 2 CDs
  • perfect by candlelight or in the office
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ASIN: B00004TQR2
Release Date: 2000-10-10

Tracks:

  1. Ayo Visto Lo Mappamundi
  2. Viva Gran Re Don Fernando
  3. Una Sanosa Porfia
  4. Imrpovisations On Tres Moricas M'enamoran/Tres Moricas M'enamoran
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  8. Virgen, Bendita Sin Par
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  10. En Memoria D'Alixandre
  11. La Alta ('La Spagna')
  12. Pase El Agoa, Ma Julieta
  13. Oy Comamos Y Bebamos
  14. El Paso Del Mar Rojo
  15. Ah, El Novio No Quere Dinero!
  16. Kyrie: Ayo Visto Lo Mappamundi
  17. Ayo Visto Lo Mappamundi
  18. Improvisations On Ayo Visto Lo Mappamundi

Tracks:

  1. O Virgo Splendens
  2. Stella Splendens In Monte
  3. Laudemus Virginem/Splendens Ceptigera
  4. Los Set Gotxs Recomptarem
  5. Cuncti Simus Concanentes
  6. Polorum Regina
  7. Mariam Matrem Virginem
  8. Imperayritz De La Ciutat Ioyosa
  9. Ad Mortem Festinamus
  10. Ondas Do Mar De Vigo/Mandad' Ei Comigo
  11. Mia Irmana Fremosa/Ay Deus, Se Sab' Ora
  12. Quantas Sabades Amar Amigo/Eno Sagrado En Vigo/Ay Ondas Que En Vin Veer
  13. Santa Maria, Strela Do Dia
  14. El Buesca Del Padre
  15. Las Hermanas Reina Y Cautiva
  16. El Sueno De La Hija

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beware! two old CDs reissued with a new name.......2006-08-02

I bought this CD with great anticipation because I love Spanish music of this era. To my disappointment, this was not a new recording, but a reissue of two CDs I already own: "1492: Music from the Age of Discovery" and "Traveler." If you don't have these CDs already, this double set is a great bargain. But check your CD rack before buying!

5 out of 5 stars A reworking of a prior disc - but now with 2 CDs.......2006-01-27

I was pleased to see that one of my favorite CDs had not really gone out of print, but was reworked into this title and now with a bonus CD. Even though I own the original "Music from the Age of Discovery 1492", I'll probably buy this disc just for the extras. Very nice mood music, lots of variety, exotic instruments and lovely voices.

5 out of 5 stars perfect by candlelight or in the office.......2000-10-20

i've owned this CD for several years, and never tire of it. weather i'm curled up with a book, or just in the office with headphones on, it's appropriate for any occasion (outside a raucus party). i highly suggest it if you're interested in exotic, mystical, and festive tunes.
A Mediterranean Christmas
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    		A Mediterranean Christmas
    Joel Cohen & The Boston Camerata
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    8. Gregorian Occitan, 12th c. -- Como Somos Per Conssello
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    17. Egypt -- Nani Ya Srira
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    Medieval Songs & Dances
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      		Medieval Songs & Dances

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      Release Date: 2006-05-23

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      26. Polorum Regina (Pilgrim Song)
      Llibre Vermell
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
      • Eclectic, sonorous, lively and ever-interesting!
      • Impressive.
      		 Llibre Vermell
      Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous , Sarband , and Vladimir Ivanoff
      Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
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      ASIN: B00004SSGW
      Release Date: 2000-07-04

      Tracks:

      1. O Virgo Splendens
      2. Laudemus Virginem
      3. Salve Virgo / Splendens Ceptigera
      4. Cedit Frigus
      5. Polorum Regina
      6. Mariam Matrem
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      10. Ad Mortem Festinamus
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      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Eclectic, sonorous, lively and ever-interesting!.......2002-11-25

      This recording by Sarband offers creative and varied interpretations of the songs of medieval pilgrims at Santa Maria de Montserrat. In the late 14th century, to dissuade enthusiastic travelers from profaning the monastery church with secular songs and dances, the monks of Montserrat gathered together some songs they felt were more appropriate. Ten of these selections have been passed down to us as part of a volume of folios later bound in red velvet--the "Libre Vermell". Sarband's director Vladimir Ivanoff, also of the group Vox, is well known for his focus on the cultural exchanges that have occurred over the centuries between European and Arabic music. Such influences were especially prevalent in Spain, which was occupied by the Moors for centuries. Tracks #9, "Stella splendens", and #10, "Los set gotxs", are standouts, and for lack of a more period term, they "really rock"! Indeed, they are specified as "round dances" in the text of the Red Book, with which the pilgrims could celebrate in a state of religious fervor the culmination of their long journey. Four vocal soloists and five instrumentalists perform, and are joined at key points by a full choir. Other fine recordings which also feature music from the Llibre Vermell include the Toronto Consort's "The Way of the Pilgrim: Medieval Songs of Travel", and Ensemble Unicorn's "The Black Madonna: Pilgrim Songs from the Monastery of Montserrat (1400-1420)". Sarband's subsequent recording, "Sacred Women: Women as Composers and Performers of Medieval Chant", continues to explore the pure and expressive power of the voice in expressing religious devotion--Catholic, Byzantine and Muslim.

      4 out of 5 stars Impressive........2000-07-13

      This CD contains what I always imagined great choral music should sound like; dynamic and powerful. While not all tracks are choral, all are very interesting--some very intense. This is music from the 14th century. I actually don't own this cd yet, I listened to much of it in a local cd store--I will be getting it though. I recommend this if you like early chamber and choral music. I am hardly an expert on choral or chamber music, and I don't know much about this album to be honest. I just found the sound inspiring and unusual to my ears, but very good, so I wanted to recommend it.
      The Chants of Camino De Santiago [Jade]
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        		The Chants of Camino De Santiago [Jade]

        Manufacturer: Jade / Bmg
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B00004VK8G
        Release Date: 2001-03-20

        Tracks:

        1. Jhesus Christ
        2. A Que Por Muy Gran Fremosura
        3. Romance De Don Boyso
        4. Pregoneros Van Y Vienen
        5. Nani, Nani
        6. El Rey De Francia
        7. Ondas Do Mar
        8. Mia Yrmana
        9. Lanquan Li Jorn
        10. La Perneta
        11. Gratulantes Celebremus Festum
        12. Non E Gran Cousa
        13. Mariam Matrem
        14. Ad Superni
        15. O Maria Maris Stella
        16. Cuncti Potens Genitor Deus
        17. Benedicamus Domino
        18. Sancta Mater Graciae/Dou Way, Robin
        19. Dum Pater Familias

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        This record will transport you into a different world of sound and spirit: simpler, purer, more tranquil and serene. The program consists of chants from the 12th to the 15th centuries and includes several Sephardic songs--some quite dancelike, some rather mournful. Though the melodic range of the chants is naturally very limited, and the prevailing mood is devotional and somber, they have a lot of textural diversity. Some are purely instrumental, others are for one or two unaccompanied voices. When the tenor and bass sing alone, the latter provides a drone to the former's more florid line, or they move in open intervals, alternating between unison and solo. Their duets with the soprano combine unison, conversational give and take, and counterpoint. Most of the chants use a wide variety of vocal and instrumental combinations, with fascinating results. The final song employs the entire group; vigorous, assertive, and celebratory, it keeps adding voices and instruments, becoming increasingly elaborate.

        The performing group is most admirable. Several singers also play numerous instruments, which include a citole, a cornemuse, a hackbrett simulating a psalterion, a Persian def, and a Syrian rek, in addition to the more familiar vieles and a large variety of flutes and percussion. Among the singers, tenor Hervé Lamy is outstanding. His voice is sweet and velvety, his expressiveness both chaste and intense.

        The disc's packaging is odd. The booklet gives neither the texts nor any information about the music or the performers. But both the makers of the instruments, which are, of course, modern reproductions of the ancient originals, and the dates when they were made are listed in meticulous detail. --Edith Eisler
        Songs & Dances of the Middle Ages
        Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
        • excellent companion if you are learning to play the recorder
        • Good Performances, Bad Becording
        • good effort, but...
        • Lively medieval song
        • I listen to this one alot!
        		 Songs & Dances of the Middle Ages

        Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000001Q6M
        Release Date: 1993-08-31

        Tracks:

        1. Danca (Improvised) - Lamento di Tristano - Istanpitta Gaetta
        2. A Virgen que de Deus Madre
        3. Quen a omagenta
        4. Se ome fezer
        5. A Virgen mut groriosa
        6. Ay ondas
        7. Der kuninc Rudolf
        8. Loibere risen
        9. Sic mea fata
        10. Palastinalied
        11. Chanconeta tedesca
        12. The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat: Stella splendens
        13. The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat: Mariam matrem
        14. The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat: Imperantz
        15. The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat: Los set gotex, Cuncti simus
        16. The Llibre Vermell of Montserrat: Polorum regina
        17. Can vei la lauzeta mover
        18. Quant je voi yver
        19. Hocket In seculum
        20. Dame ne regardez pas
        21. Comment qua moy
        22. Reis glorios
        23. Estampie real

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars excellent companion if you are learning to play the recorder.......2004-05-05

        I came to this CD after buying the sheetmusic with the same title in order to learn to play the recorder. (I want to learn since my 5 year old daughter is learning the piano and I want to be able to accompany her.) I was happy to get the CD and hear how the pieces are intended to be played. Actually my favorite tunes (some of them are actually very catchy) are performed with the shawm, forerunner to the oboe. I had to find this out from a google search, since little information about the instruments are included with the liner notes, not even which instrument plays on which track. I can't even pronounce some of the names of the instruments. As far as the recording quality goes, yes it has a low signal, so you have to turn the volume way up; but once this is done, I hear no backround noise, hiss etc. Anyway, a great way to learn the recorder, sure beats nursery rhymes.

        2 out of 5 stars Good Performances, Bad Becording.......2003-02-25

        This was my first introduction to music of the Middle Ages -- I purchased it to broaden my musical experience. The musicians and singers provide fine performances. However, the sound recording is very poor -- an occaisional pop is heard, as though it was recorded from an LP. Also, the signal level is too low (especially for a supposedly DDD recording). Increasing the volume makes the background noise annoyingly noticable along with a rumbling sound (as though from a turntable). Since, as another reviewer has observed, there are better collections available, I do not recommend purchasing this recording.

        2 out of 5 stars good effort, but..........2001-08-09

        ...this is hardly one of the best CDs out there. Those who think so have obviously not listened widely enough. I suppose its popularity stems from its title, which gives it away as an easy introduction to the period. Multiple preferable CDs exist for each of the areas it surveys: medieval dance (Istanpitta I and II), Cantigas de Santa Maria (multiple releases under that title), Llibre Vermell (the Sarband release; The Black Madonna), Minnesang (Wanderers' Voices), and trouvere/troubadour repertoire (too many). The bottom line: nice intro, but unnecessary if you want to do more than graze the surface of available talent.

        5 out of 5 stars Lively medieval song.......2000-08-17

        I love early music, but some performers approach it so solemnly they take the life out of it. Sonus is one of those rare early music groups that actually sound like they have fun playing. They improvise brilliantly, the vocals by Hazel Ketchum are natural sounding rather than operatic, and their taste in material is wonderful. Hearing them, you know why people 700 years ago liked listening to music.

        5 out of 5 stars I listen to this one alot!.......2000-07-03

        At least twice a week lately in fact :-) I find myself fascinated with music of this era and I am very glad I got this album. If you like early music please give the clips a listen and I think you will agree this album is worth buying!

        The liner notes contain the lyrics in both the language sung and an english translation. This is handy for folks like me who only know english and want to know exactly what is being sung :-)
        Close Encounters in Early Music: Le Temps des Legendes: Medieval and Renaissance Music from Byzantium, Spain, Italy, France, Flanders, Russia
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        		 Close Encounters in Early Music: Le Temps des Legendes: Medieval and Renaissance Music from Byzantium, Spain, Italy, France, Flanders, Russia

        Manufacturer: Opus 111
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        ASIN: B000005W2I
        Release Date: 1996-04-10

        Customer Reviews:

        4 out of 5 stars Mistaken.......2005-10-03

        When I first saw this disc, i thought the label was opus 3 (scandinavian audiophile label) since it appears in Amazon as Opus III. But, it ends to be Opus 111 (french label). Has quality, but not as much as Opus 3 usually has. A terrible mistake.

        5 out of 5 stars Strike a chord in your heart.......2001-01-03

        This assemblage of early music includes acapella pieces as well as instrumental. It is the ultimate beginner (and expert) CD to Middle Age music. The CD features such wonderful groups as Micrologus and the Greek bizantine Choir. Opus 111 has a great selection of Bizantine music, so look for their other CDs.

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