Continuum presents a program by the outstanding early music ensemble Sequentia, now in its thirty-eighth year of performing medieval music, some of which has been hitherto unknown.
This program focuses of two major works from around the year 1200, The Story of Samson & Delilah and The Labors of Hercules. These two pieces are in the form of narrative lais, a medieval type of story telling in a vocal style prevalent in medieval times.
The recordings used are: Spielmann und Kleriker (um 1200) - Deutsche HarmoniaMundi 7 49704 2, Visions from the Book - Deutsche HarmoniaMundi 05472 77347 2, and English Songs from the Middle Ages - Deutsche HarmoniaMundi CDC 7 49192 2