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Sollazzo

The Angels are Singing

The Angels are Singing
While late-medieval poets explored a dizzying range of emotions from heavenly ecstasy to the hellish torments of unrequited love, their musician colleagues were happily setting sacred themes to well-known secular tunes. A song describing ‘graceful women and pretty girls’ could be transformed into an image of angelic choirs, or a suave love song turned into a graceful hymn to the Virgin. Performing music from French and Italian manuscripts, Sollazzo paint a picture of this vivacious mingling of the mundane and the spiritual in songs and virtuoso instrumental pieces by Tapissier, Landini, Ciconia and others.

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While late-medieval poets explored a dizzying range of emotions from heavenly ecstasy to the hellish torments of unrequited love, their musician colleagues were happily setting sacred themes to well-known secular tunes. A song describing ‘graceful women and pretty girls’ could be transformed into an image of angelic choirs, or a suave love song turned into a graceful hymn to the Virgin. Performing music from French and Italian manuscripts, Sollazzo paint a picture of this vivacious mingling of the mundane and the spiritual in songs and virtuoso instrumental pieces by Tapissier, Landini, Ciconia and others.

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Location

National Centre for Early Music, York
St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York, YO1 9TL


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