love to my liking is an album of 13th century Trouvère music from Brooklyn based ensemble Alkemie.  It’s in many ways similar in style to the music of the troubadors of what is niow Southern France but being from the North the texts are in medieval French rather than Occitan.  There’s a range of songs, dances and motets on the record including some in a form I hadn’t encountered before; where two, or even three, distinct texts are sung simultaneously by different singers. Continue reading →