Echoes of an Old Hall

Featuring

Gothic Voices
Matheus de Sancto Johanne
Johannes Ockeghem
Thomas Damett
Anonymous (Gregorian Chant)
John Cooke

John Dunstable
Anonymous
Thomas Byttering
Leonel Power
John Forest
Johannes de Limburgia
Guillaume Dufay
Johannes Haucourt
Gilles Binchois
Pycard

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Album & Artwork

The cover image for the album is from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry by the Limbourg brothers, who flourished between 1400 and 1416.

Performer Biography

Gothic Voices, founded in 1980 by medievalist Christopher Page, has produced over twenty-five award-winning albums, including the best-selling 'A feather on the breath of God'.

Compositional Technique

The music in the Old Hall Manuscript features two dominating styles: English discant, with a Gregorian chant in the middle voice, and a top-voice dominated style, also known as chanson style.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in Boxgrove Priory, Chichester, UK, between October 27-30, 2018.

Cultural Impact

This English music, with its distinct sweet flavor from abundant thirds and sixths, was revered in the Franco-Flemish world as the 'Contenance Angloise'.

Historical Context

The Old Hall Manuscript takes its name from its last private ownership location, St Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, in Hertfordshire.

Composition History

The Old Hall Manuscript, compiled by the 1420s, is the most substantial source of compositions from late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century England.