Mediaeval Carols III Double CD
Mediaeval Carols III Double CD
Join Opus Anglicanum on a Christmas journey 800 years back in time, visiting spellbinding music and words from our mediaeval past. Masterworks include Perotin’s spell-binding solo Beata viscera, and Obrecht’s dazzling Factor orbis. Our readings, performed by Zeb Soanes, invite the listener to encounter great mediaeval spiritual thinkers, poets and artists, spanning a thousand years to illuminate the surrounding music.
Presented on two CDs, one containing both music and readings and the other, music only.
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Opus Anglicanum: John Bowen, David De Winter, James Birchall, Stephen Burrows, Roland Robertson, Zeb Soanes
Sample Music and a Reading:
‘Definitely one to listen to again and again.’
— Robert Hugill
This CD offers a lot more than the modest title suggests. In fact it spans 1000 years, and, as you’d expect from the evergreen Opus Anglicanum, this programme is no mere anthology but a sequence, telling the Christmas story step by step; every item is a distinctive delight, beautifully sung, and interspersed are readings, perfectly judged by Zeb Soanes. Expect the unexpected here; the story begins with the familiar accounts of St John, but as translated and expanded by Wycliffe; then comes a series of declarations and homilies of startling power and humanity. We may think of carols mostly as singalong pieces, which alas we can’t enjoy at the moment! but we can engage with this dynamic programme as grateful listeners.
— Dame Emma Kirkby
