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This recording is simply the best of a very fine but still small number of discs featuring secular music of the late 14th century -- a time of great social and political upheaval, and the beginning of an era of unequalled interest in and advancement of the arts. 10/10

--CD Review

The second half of the fourteenth century, despite wars, plagues, economic depression, and religious strife, saw the flowering in the arts, in literature and in philosophy, of a delight with subtlety of the most intricate kind, and a refinement of sensibility that took special pleasure in all kinds of complexities. This can be observed in the filigree decoration of the 'gothique flamboyant', the detail in the borders of illuminated manuscripts, the arcane network of internal puns, acrostics, and classical references in much of the poetry, and the 'summae' of the last of the scholastic philosophers.

The same delight with subtlety and complexity can be heard in the music of the peri...