COMPOSERS: Various
LABELS: Opus 111
WORKS: 14th- and 15th-century songs
PERFORMER: Alla Francesca, Alta
CATALOGUE NO: OPS 30-221
This is the ‘musical toyshop’ approach to medieval music with lots of instruments and with fun, rather than fancy, voices. The lament for a knight killed by the English, though, has real drama, but several of these pieces are better done by Munrow on Virgin Veritas. Anthony Pryer