Gothic Voices - The Dufay Spectacle - The Sunday Times

That great 15th-century composer Guillaume Dufay is imagined here as guest of honour at a New Year’s Day wedding feast, a conceit allowing this survey wide range. Exquisite French chansons (in the formes fixes of rondeau and ballade) sit alongside richly textured Latin motets and arrangements. The four singers of Gothic Voices, the mezzo Clare Wilkinson and a quartet of instrumentalists seem perfectly attuned to Dufay’s intoxicatingly elegant, graceful style.