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Four women got together for a music reading session one afternoon in the spring of 1986; they wanted to hear what medieval chant and polyphony would sound like when sung by female voices. Twenty-five years later, Anonymous 4 has performed for sold-out audiences on major concert series and at festivals throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and has made 19 recordings for harmonia mundi usa, selling over two million copies.
Posted: May-21-2012
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Anonymous 4's Susan Hellauer talks about the connection between medieval music and modern, and relates how clerics of the middle ages frequently wrote about non-spiritual topics such as flirting, food, and romantic yearnings. Listen here.
Posted: May-13-2013
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Anonymous 4 revisit their favorite era in repertoire that illuminates medieval women s affinity for the most complex polyphony of their time. Spanning the entire 13th century from virtuosic motets and conductus to heartfelt laments and sacred songs the remarkable Las Huelgas manuscript was compiled for a convent of aristocratic Castilian women who (in spite of a rule forbidding Cistercian nuns from singing polyphony) sang the most beautiful, advanced and demanding music from all across Gothic-era Europe.
Posted: Oct-11-2011
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"Drawn from the Montpellier Codex, a rich compilation of French motets made around 1300, the program at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights — lovingly and radiantly sung — showed again and again how music in that period was constantly repurposed, blurring boundaries between high and low culture, and religious and secular spheres. Simple troubadour songs kept finding their way into the sublimely superimposed vocal lines of two-, three- and even four-voice motets."
— New York Times
Posted: May-13-2013