Gothic Voices è un gruppo musicale britannico di musica antica specializzato nell'esecuzione di musica medioevale.
Storia
L'ensemble è stato fondato nel 1980 da Christopher Page.
Il suo repertorio è principalmente incentrato sulla musica polifonica a cappella di carattere profano di compositori del XIV secolo inglesi e del nord della Francia.
Componenti
Catherine King - mezzosoprano Steven Harrold - tenore Julian Podger - tenore Leigh Nixon - tenore Stephen Charlesworth - baritono
Fra gli artisti che hanno collaborato al gruppo in passato si ricordano Emma Kirkby, Charles Daniels, Rogers Covey-Crump, James Gilchrist, Paul Agnew, Andrew Parrott, John Mark Ainsley e Peter Harvey.
Discografia
1981 - A Feather on the Breath of God. Sequences and Hymns by Abbess Hildegard of Bingen (Hyperion, 66039) 1983 - The Mirror of Narcissus. Songs by Machaut (Hyperion, 66087) 1984 - The Garden of Zephirus. Courtly songs of the early fifteenth century (Hyperion, 66144) 1985 - The Castle of Fair Welcome. Courtly songs of the later 15th century (Hyperion, 66194) 1986 - The Service of Venus and Mars. Music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440 (Hyperion, 66238) 1987 - A Song for Francesca. Music in Italy, 1330-1430 (Hyperion, 66286) 1988 - Music for the Lion-Hearted King (Hyperion, 66336) 1990 - The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Motets and Songs from Thirteenth Century France (Hyperion, 66423) 1991 - The Medieval Romantics. French Songs and Motets, 1340-1440 (Hyperion, 66463) 1991 - Lancaster and Valois. French and English music, 1350-1420 (Hyperion, 66588) 1992 - The Study of Love. French Songs and Motets of the 14th Century (Hyperion, 66619) 1993 - The Voice in the Garden. Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550 (Hyperion, 66653) 1994 - The Spirits of England and France I. Music for Court and Church from the later Middle Ages (Hyperion, 66739) 1994 - The Spirits of England and France II. Songs of the Trouvères (Hyperion, 66773) 1995 - The Spirits of England and France III. Binchois and his Contemporaries (Hyperion, 66783) 1996 - The Spirits of England and France IV. Missa Caput. Story of the Salve Regina (Hyperion, 66857) 1996 - The Spirits of England and France V. Missa Veterem hominem. An anonymous English Mass setting from c.1440 (Hyperion, 66919) 1997 - La Rue. Missa de Feria. Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix (Hyperion, 67010) 1998 - Jerusalem: Vision of Peace. Songs and Plainchants of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries (Hyperion, 67039) 1999 - Masters of the Rolls. Music by English Composers of the Fourteenth Century (Hyperion, 67098) 1999 - The Earliest Songbook in England (Hyperion, 67177) 2006 - The Unknown Lover. Songs by Solage and Machaut (Avie, 2089) 2008 - A Laurel for Landini. 14th Century Italy's Greatest Composer (Avie, 2151)
Collegamenti esterni
Discografia del gruppo sul sito delle Early Music F.A.Q.
Categoria:Gruppi musicali di musica antica