Medieval Songs and Dances

The introductory note does have the benefit of explaining something of the interpretation of the music: why director John Southcott chose the instruments featured on the disc and, again very briefly, what factors he took into consideration when coming to the renditions presented here. Works featured on this disc range from the late twelfth-century French troubadour pastourelle L’autrier m’iere levaz, through works from the thirteenth-century Cantigas de Santa Maria and English thirteenth-century songs, to the opening and closing works, Lamento di Tristano and Tre fontane, both fourteenth-century Italian pieces.