The Art of Courtly Love is a 1973 3-LP box set recorded by The Early Music Consort of London, directed by David Munrow for EMI Classics. The set includes 51 medieval and early renaissance songs, most of them little known in 1973. [1] [2] The album won the 1977 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. [3]
References
- ^ Daniel Leech-Wilkinson The Modern Invention of Medieval Music: Scholarship, Ideology, 2002 279 "'The Art of Courtly Love', The Early Music Consort of London, dir. David Munrow. SLS 863, record 1, side 2, band 1 (issued 1973), probably influenced by a similar performance recorded in 1967 by the New York Pro Musica that used ..."
- ^ Peter Martland Since records began: EMI, the first 100 years 1997 p293 One of David Munrow's most significant contributions to the early music catalogue- when the editing's done, you may ... Their first EMI solo album, Two Renaissance Dance Bands (HMV HQS 1249), was released in 1971 and, by the end of ... They included Music for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain (HMV CSD 3738), the Art of Courtly Love (HMV SLS 863) and The Art of the Netherlands (HMV SLS 5049).
- ^ "4 Labels Cop Grammies", Billboard, March 5, 1977.
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