La bele Marie
Songs to the Virgin from 13th-century France
Anonymous 4
sublime...Coupled with superb production, the quartet’s programme explores thirteenth-century song, largely from the northern French trouveres tradition, with exquisite clarity and warmth.
La bele Marie
Songs to the Virgin from 13th-century France
Anonymous 4
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sublime...Coupled with superb production, the quartet’s programme explores thirteenth-century song, largely from the northern French trouveres tradition, with exquisite clarity and warmth.
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A radiant and varied collection of 13th-century French conductus and chansons in praise of the Virgin Mary from 2002. Drawn from the Notre Dame repertoire, or adapted from vernacular lyrics of the northern French trouvères, these ardent songs echo the European prehistoric culture of goddess worship.
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6 October 2002
sublime...Coupled with superb production, the quartet’s programme explores thirteenth-century song, largely from the northern French trouveres tradition, with exquisite clarity and warmth.
Anonymous 4 cast a spell difficult to resist.
