Founded in Oslo, Norway in 1997, Trio Mediaeval forged a specialist niche
singing sacred monophonic and mediaeval polyphonic music from England, Italy and
France but, signed to the ECM label, they quickly developed this specialist
genre to fuse it with more modern attitudes and styles. "We approach mediaeval
music as if it were written today," said founder member Anna Maria Friman,
"mediaeval and contemporary pieces seem to fit incredibly well together." It was
a formula which gave them great popularity all over the world, with a string of
albums beginning with 'Words of the Ange...