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Reviewer: David Fallows
The Dufay Collective have been around for 25 years, generally focusing on the more folksy aspects of medieval music; William Lyons seems to be the only consistent member. Here they join forces with the relatively new vocal trio Voice (Victoria Couper, Emily Burn and Clemmie Franks), one of several such groups competing for the slot left by the reputed imminent dissolution of Anonymous 4. They sound excellent, though there is not enough information in the booklet-notes to know which singer is which.
The surprise is that almost
nothing on this new CD of English music from the 14th and 15th centuries seems
ever to have been recorded before. It has all been available for years in modern
editions apart from the few pieces that Lyons has patched together from bits and
pieces or even simply composed. The sad news is that so many of the songs are
divested of their texts and used as instrumental ensemble pieces. And when the
texts are sung, the performers show little interest in their form. All the same,
it is truly wonderful to hear a song like ‘Wyth ryth al my herte’ (in the
reconstruction by Frank Llewellyn Harrison) with its endless repetition of the
name of ‘Annys’. Also particularly welcome is the closing suite of melodies from
the Gresley Dances (c1500): this probably represents The Dufay Collective at
their best, not adding too much of their own to the melodies but assembling them
into an entertaining 10 minutes of music. |
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