Browse: Orlando Consort (early music ensemble)

The Orlandos are so experienced in this repertory that, nearly always, the choice of tempo and tone is spot-on (and tempo is perhaps the most important decision, given that absolute tempos are... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2019 More…

Their approach is rather different from the refined blend of such pioneering groups as Gothic Voices; exploiting, instead, the contrasts in timbre and character between the four voices and varying... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This album finds the quartet in excellent shape, with their clarity of idea and warmth of sound as strong as ever. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2023, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Machaut at his most engaging and varied...this really is one bullseye after another...Rarely since the Gothic Voices has the vocalisation of the lower lines appeared so self-evidently the right... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2017 More…

That evergreen theme of courtly love inspires in Machaut extraordinary harmonies and beautiful, primitive counterpoint. The singers combine pin-sharp tuning and gentle phrasing in this seductive... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This collection has been programmed with considerable care. Machaut's glorious Messe de Nostre Dame forms its centre, both in terms of its musical substance and its famously provocative rhythmic... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The group seems most at home in the sacred pieces, the Magnificat and O bone Jesu, where their harmonious, 'choral' sound can be put to good use...We owe a debt of gratitude to the Orlando Consort... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…