Doesn't everybody have a drawer of early vocal music recordings?

The other Prima Voxes and I were wondering how another group may have performed the melisma in one of the Hildegard chants we're working on.

So I pulled out my drawer of early vocal music recordings in the name of research. "Wow!" they said. "You have a whole drawer of early vocal music recordings!" There was a little bit of silence while we looked at each other, me a little incredulous. "Don't you?" I asked. Then they laughed at me, but seemed glad enough to dig into the drawer.

Technically, it's a drawer and a half. And that's just early vocal music. Don't get me started on the early instrumental stff.

I've been collecting this music since I was in college and keep discovering more and more groups I love. Sequentia. Trio Mediaeval. Anonymous 4, though my unholy envy of them sometimes gets in the way of enjoying them. There, I admitted it.

That night at Prima Vox rehearsal I realized just how long I've been longing sing this kind of music. And just how musically happy it makes me that now I am.

Viva Voxes.