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Gabriels Message - Festive Music From Medieval England by Mediva Mediva : Gabriels Message - Festive Music From Medieval England.
Medieval music made enticingly modern.


Gabriel's Message is a celebration of Advent, gathering together pieces from 13th-15th Century English manuscripts which depict the Angel Gabriel's visit to the Virgin Mary. Gabriel's Message is an anthology of Christmas past, from harsh winds to crackling fires, a peal of bells or a baby's cry, it captures the sounds of winter with both its hardships and its festivities.
Songs:

1. The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came
2. Nowell This Is The Salutation Of Th' angel Gabriel
3. Edi Beo Thu Hevene Quene
4. Nowell Nowell
5. Stella Maris Nuncuparis
6. As I Lay Upon A Night
7. Salve Virgo Virginum
8. Nota
9. Ad Rose Titulum
10. Lullay - As I Lay On Yole Night
11. Estampie
12. Veni Mater Gracie - Dou Way Robin
13. Verbum caro factum est

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Release date: 1/22/2010
Mediva lives in Cheshunt England

Tagged as: Classical, Medieval, Classical Singing, Lute, Viola da Gamba


Recommended albums:
  1. La Domna Ditz - Songs of the Trobairitz by Rossignol: spare and lyrical medieval troubadour songs
  2. Passion, Pestilence and Polyphony by Misericordia: sickeningly good Medieval
  3. Assumpta est Maria by Vox Nostra: gorgeously complex and rich vocals using manuscripts from the middle ages
  4. For the Love of Jaqueline by Asteria: late-medieval vocal and instrumental music
  5. Influenza Italiana by Ensemble Mirable: rare and extraordinary music of the Baroque
  6. Vocal music of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris in the year 1200 by Vox Nostra: gorgeously complex and rich vocals using manuscripts from the middle ages
  7. Conversations Galantes by Ensemble Mirable: rare and extraordinary music of the Baroque
  8. Soyes Loyal by Asteria: late-medieval vocal and instrumental music
  9. English Renaissance Music by La Primavera: English Renaissance music.
  10. La Follia Itinerante by The Hurdy-Gurdy Band: Baroque Street Music of Paris and London
  11. Honey From The Thorn by Tim Rayborn: Medieval and Middle Eastern music
  12. Dancing in the Isles by Musica Pacifica: Baroque and traditional music from England, Scotland and Ireland
  13. Bringing Light to the Darkness by Music for a Winter's Eve: Early song and dance to celebrate midwinter
  14. Leclair - Blow - Matteis - Brescianello by Nova Casa: Baroque chamber music from Poland
  15. Medieval and Traditional Carols, Chansons and Festive Dances by In Nova Cantica: carols and chansons from the 13th - 17th Centuries for dancing, festivities and mayhem
  16. Dowland's Dialogues, Volume One by English Ayres: traditional early English music
  17. Salutation by Poeticall Musicke: Late Renaissance and Early Baroque music, historically performed
  18. Il Rossetto, Domenico Bianchini's Lute Book (1546) by Richard MacKenzie: Virtuoso English Lutenist and Guitarist
  19. Canconier by Canconier: Medieval music from the 12th to the 15th centuries

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