Trio Mediaeval - Stella Maris

The word „mellifluous“ might almost have been coined to describe the distinctively pure, cool sound of Trio Mediaeval’s three female voices. It has an alluring quality all its own, which makes everything they sing – from the earliest polyphony to newly composed pieces which, to some extent, inhabit the same sound-world – wonderfully rewarding to listen to.

The mediaeval contribution here consists of a sequence of 12th- and 13th-century settings, often in delightfully lilting triple time, which neatly demonstrate the contrast between the celebrated sweetness of the predominantly chordal English style and the more dissonant and contrapuntal Parisian manner of such pieces as Perotin’s “Dum sigillum”. These are complemented by Sungji Hong’s “Missa Lumen de lumine”, a virtuoso exploration of the technical and sonorous possibilities of three high voices.
Elizabeth Roche, Daily Telegraph