Anonymous: Seized By Sweet Desire (Naxos Audio CD)

• Until recently the rôle of women as composers and performers of both sacred and secular music during the Middle Ages has been seriously underestimated.

• This disc, sung by the all-female group Musica Ficta, reveals how well suited to women’s voices are music from Notre-Dame in Paris and the songs of many trouvères (the northern counterparts of the troubadours of Languedoc).

• The latter songs, for instance, often feature female protagonists and present different perspectives on love and life to those by their male counterparts.

“It would be hard to find a composer and conductor better versed in vocal music than Bo Holten”. Chandos.com