JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) ALAN LUMSDEN (sackbut) DAVID MUNROW (shawm and recorder) MARY REMNANT (medieval fiddle, chamber organ, and rebec) MARYLIN WAILES (gothic harp. portative organ, bell-chimes) Directed by GILBERT REANEY

From the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, London

Part 1
The programme consists of music, nearly all by anonymous composers from the eleventh century to the beginning of the fifteenth including in Part 1
Crist and Sainte Marie (Goartc) and the thirteenth-century Alleluia: Nativitas Part 2 begins with the Anglo-French song Bien deust chanter and ends with the fifteenth-century Gloria, laus et honor followed by the Gloria (Pycard)