The Service of Venus and Mars: Music for the Knights of the Garter (Special Limited Edition)

Music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440

Christopher Page directs Gothic Voices in a recording of music for the Knights of the Garter, 1340-1440.

"The music is fascinating. Readers interested in trying medieval repertoire could hardly do better than start here." (Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

The works on this recording:

KING EDWARD III (1312-77), Founder of the Order of the Garter
1. Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) Gratissima virginis/Vos qui admiramini/Gaude gloriosa/Contratenor
2. Anonymous: Singularis laudis digna
3. Pierre des Molins (fl.1190-220): De ce que fol pense
4. Anonymous: De ce fol pense (after Pierre des Molins)

JOHN OF GAUNT, DUKE OF LANCASTER (1340-99)
5. anonymous Lullay, lullay
6. Pycard (late 14th C-early 15th C) Gloria

THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE (?1388-1421)
7. anonymous Ther is no rose of swych virtu
8. Leonel Power (c.1375-1445) Sanctus

KING HENRY V (1387-1422)
9. Franchois Lebertoul (fl.1409-28) Las, que me demanderoye
10. anonymous Le gay playsir
11. anonymous Le grant pleyser
12. John Pyamour (d1431) Quam pulchra es

HUMPHREY, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER (1391-1447)
AND JOHN, DUKE OF BEDFORD (1389-1435)
13. John Dunstable (c1390-1453) Speciosa facta es

RICHARD BEAUCHAMP, EARL OF WARWICK (1382-1439)
14. Soursby Sanctus

KING HENRY V (1387-1422)
15. Richard Loqueville (d1418) Je vous pri que j'aye un baysier
16. anonymous The Agincourt Carol

January 29, 2005

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