Words of The Angel

"Three women's voices blending evocatively in a recreation of the Messe de Tournai. A typically imaginative ECM programme, beautifully recorded. A cult disc in the making?"
Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (January 2002)

"Trio Mediaeval was founded in Oslo in 1997 and this is its first commercial recording. It is a great success in spite of the rather worrying challenges the singers have set themselves - the choice of repertoire, the obvious competition with another all-female early music group, and the refusal to provide any liturgical or social context (this is simply intended to be a musical experience.)"
- ***** Five Stars BBC Music Magazine (January 2002)


Debut of an exceptional female trio from Norway singing music from the Messe de Tournai, plus motets and songs, as well as a collection of Laude, and the contemporary piece by Ivan Moody that gives the album its title. Formed in Oslo in 1997, the trio studied intensively with the Hilliard Ensemble and shares the English group's sense of adventurousness and equal interest in early and new music.

If you like Words of The Angel then you'd probably like the following:

Hilliard Ensemble, Codex Specialnik
Hilliard Ensemble, A Hilliard Songbook
Gesualdo, Tenebrae
Veljo Tormis, Litany to Thunder