The harmonies heard on this comprehensive four-disc recording of one of the most enigmatic manuscripts in European music history, the Songs of Codex Chantilly, c. 1390, represent an apex in Western music, associated with Christendom’s wealthiest courts, called 'decadent' by some.Various elements of improvisation meld into musical forms that test the boundaries of late Gothic sensibilities.Here are love songs for The End of the World: a time of deadly plague, devastating earthquakes, endless war, disintegrating religion, and the explosion of science and measurement.
