With an ear for beauty and an interest in
musicology, not to mention a lovely set of voices, Anonymous 4 is one of the
most popular exponents of early music—primarily the sound of Western Europe
before the Baroque Age. With The CherryTree, the New York-based quartet
applies those voices to a collection of medieval British Christmas carols and
Appalachian songs rooted in that tradition. The purity of their singing and the
ideals they sing about are like a quilt of fresh snow on the hillside, unsoiled
by the pollution and commercialism of the present age.
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