Lancaster and Valois
French and English Music, c1350-1420
Machaut - Solage - Pycard - Sturgeon - u.a.
Gothic Voices - Christopher Page (Dir)
Label : Helios (Hyperion Records)
Artikelnummer: CDH55294
1 CD Spielzeit : 057:34
CHF 13.50
Original-Ausgabe CDA66588 // This is the most prolific composer of the fourteenth century, Guillaume de Machaut, referring to a polyphonic song that he had recently composed. Although Machaut is describing the individuality of his own work in this letter, his description of the ballade in question as 'very unusual' (mout estrainges) and 'very novel' (mout nouviaus) evokes the whole repertoire of fourteenth-century French music.