Vocalist Emily van Evera has participated in the making of many early music recordings over the years, mainly as a performer within a group, among them Taverner Consort, Hilliard Ensemble, Tragicomedia, Sequentia, and Gothic Voices. The most famous, and notorious, of van Evera's associations is her vocal portrayal of Hildegard von Bingen as set to an electro-disco backdrop for the EMI Angel album Vision. It sold boatloads of units, but did not help solidify van Evera's reputation. Avie's My Lady Rich appears to be the first ...
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Vocalist Emily van Evera has participated in the making of many early music recordings over the years, mainly as a performer within a group, among them Taverner Consort, Hilliard Ensemble, Tragicomedia, Sequentia, and Gothic Voices. The most famous, and notorious, of van Evera's associations is her vocal portrayal of Hildegard von Bingen as set to an electro-disco backdrop for the EMI Angel album Vision. It sold boatloads of units, but did not help solidify van Evera's reputation. Avie's My Lady Rich appears to be the first instance in van Evera's long career where her name appears above the title. Unlike Vision, a project with a clear commercial purpose, My Lady Rich is a straight-ahead collection of Elizabethan songs, choruses, and instrumental music. Van Evera is here again channeling the spirit of a long-departed feminine singer and icon, in this instance Lady Penelope Rich. Whether one buys into the idea of this kind of musical séance is decidedly up to the listener, but the research that went...
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