Hyperion's The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page, is subtitled "Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550"; this disc presents a mixed recital of popular songs, Latin religious pieces, and instrumental solos that provides the panoramic view of middle-renaissance Spanish culture. Page and his group have studied the accents of the highly colloquial Spanish language of this era and deliver the music in a slightly casual and slangy way, not employing the usual purity of tone heard in their ...
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Hyperion's The Voice in the Garden, featuring Gothic Voices under Christopher Page, is subtitled "Spanish Songs and Motets, 1480-1550"; this disc presents a mixed recital of popular songs, Latin religious pieces, and instrumental solos that provides the panoramic view of middle-renaissance Spanish culture. Page and his group have studied the accents of the highly colloquial Spanish language of this era and deliver the music in a slightly casual and slangy way, not employing the usual purity of tone heard in their realizations of English and French music, though this approach is utilized on a couple of the Latin sacred pieces heard here. The instrumental pieces, taken from intabulations, are beautifully played by Christopher Wilson on vihuela and Andrew Lawrence-King. These come through much quieter than the vocal pieces and may trigger the volume jockey in some, but the disc as a whole is actually comfortably balanced and to best enjoy it one should leave the volume knob in one place. In The Voice in...
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