Amazing pieces of classical music - 5

@Thinkerbell Funny, I always do associate that Duerer self-portrait with the end of times. Anyhow, The Jaye Consort (of Viols)'s contribution to the genre of early music was even of an earlier date and much more powerful. This quintessentially English ensemble, founded in 1959 by Francis and June Baines, bears the name of the seventeenth-century instrument maker Henry Jaye. It certainly became the most important and consistent viol ensemble in Great Britain since the Second World War and made some very important recordings. At some point, however, The Jaye Consort abandoned their viols (made by Henry Jaye, circa 1620) to play music on reconstructed medieval instruments. Some called the result "a heterophony, comparable to an Arab nightclub band." The music indeed became a succession of simultaneous versions of the same melody performed by different instruments. Personally, I don't mind this at all, because other ensembles for the same genre, especially with the vocals, always deliver the music in a kind of vibrato that seems entirely more suited to opera than medieval music. Although tenor Gerald English certainly does his best to maintain that so-called academic mood. No, no one knows what a wandering troubadour would have sounded like, but sometimes it's indeed better to prefer the simpler, less academic sound of The Jaye Consort

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@Thinkerbell "Well done to him there, who repaid him here!" Just my own thinking on everthing. In the earlier posting mentioned tenor Nigel Rogers also joined the Studio Der Frühen Musik, led by Thomas Binkley in Munich (from 1960 to 1964). It was a group of four musicians who performed the songs from the medieval Carmina Burana, and its sound was indeed a radically different one, even anticipating all other similar ensembles. The end of Studio Der Frühen Musik's activities coincided with a turning point in the performance of medieval music in the 1980s, when the performance had previously shifted to a cappella only. Carmina Burana literally means "songs of Beuern," after the name of the Benedictine abbey in Bavaria (Benediktbeuern) where the manuscript (Codex Buranus) was discovered in 1803

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