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Galdrbok - Medieval Songs of Love and Enchantment by Daughters of Elvin Daughters of Elvin : Galdrbok - Medieval Songs of Love and Enchantment.
 Medieval songs of love and enchantment.

A stunning collection of love songs and instrumental dances from 12th to 15th century Europe. The album includes passionate Spanish ballads by the Troubadour Martin Codax about a woman who waits on the sea shore for her lover. There are mysterious magical songs which describe meetings with the Fairy Queen, songs of women who are spurned by untrue lovers by the female troubadour Comtessa de Dia, and an anonymous song of a woman who escapes the cruelties of the cloistered life for the outside world of earthly pleasures. There are also two courtly love songs by Jehan de Lescurel a priest from Notre Dame who was later hanged for debauchery.

The majority of the songs on this album come from monophonic melodic lines, sometimes accompanied by text, which the band have interpreted using a stunning array of early instruments which include gothic harp, hammered dulcimer, recorder, bass viol, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy, percussion, pipe and tabor with the beautiful voices of leading early music singers Jennie Cassidy and Sophia Brumfitt. The album concludes with 'Galdrbok' a Norse word meaning 'book of sung spells' which is an original compostition by director and bagpipe player Katy Marchant and hurdy-gurdy player Steve Tyler - so linking the medieval past with our lives in the modern age.

Songs:

1. Ondas Do Mar De Vigo
2. Domna Pos Vos Ay Chausida
3. A Chantar M'er de So Qu'ie Non Volria
4. Abundance De Felonie
5. Su La Rivera
6. Voulez Vous Que Je Vous Chant
7. Mandad Ei Comigo
8. Ognor Mi Trovo
9. De La Grant Joie D'amours
10. Lamento Di Tristano:Rotta
11. Horamay Che Fora Son
12. Galdrbok

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Release date: 1/8/2010
Daughters of Elvin lives in Okehampton England

Tagged as: Classical, Medieval, Folk, Medieval Romance, Hammered Dulcimer, Harp, Hurdy Gurdy, Recorder

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