Medieval Christmas. Orlando Consort
) | Label: harmonia mundi Catalog: HMX 2927418 Format: CD 10th to 16th-century secular & liturgical music for feast daysThe Orlando Consort On Medieval Christmas, The Orlando Consort present an unusual collection of carols, ranging from devotional to boisterous, drawn from a 500-year span of secular and liturgical music from England, France and the Low Countries. These rarely heard tunes may not sound like "Christmas music" to modern ears, but they are an accurate recreation of what Christmas music sounded like to Medieval Europeans. This fascinating disc will provide absorbing and enlightening listening pleasure year round. |