Guillaume de Machaut : The dart of love
The Orlando Consort
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble
Guillaume de Machaut : The dart of love
The Orlando Consort
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble
About
Western music as we know it today—many individual lines of whatever nature combining in whatever manner into a single whole—has its roots in the fourteenth century, and most famously in the pioneering works of Guillaume de Machaut. Why he chose to set his remarkable poetry to music in this way we may never know, but the results continue to hold those who hear it enraptured.
Few groups have matched The Orlando Consort—formed in 1988 specifically to explore this repertoire—in capturing and recording the essence of Machaut. This is the second volume in their Machaut Edition for Hyperion.
Contents and tracklist
Machaut:
Lasse! comment oublieray / Se j'aim mon loial amy / Pour quoy me bat mes maris?
Work length2:45
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMarch 2015Editor's Choice
June 2015
Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble
March 2015
Much of the time the musical and textual argument puts the spotlight on the consort's younger members, the countertenor Matthew Venner and the higher tenor Mark Dobel...Their agility and Venner's clear, well-modulated timbre and admirably control of phrasing play no small part in the Orlandos' rejuvenation.
25th January 2015
Machaut, in the skilled hands of these musicians, turns these brutalities into music of ethereal purity, pulsating with poised, almost jaunty rhythms. Music for quiet concentration.
Early Music Today
The second anthology in the Orlando Consort’s Machaut marathon…[is] characterised by supreme text- sensitivity and beauty of tone. One marvels at their trademark exquisite balance and their ability to reveal even the most complex of Machaut’s structures with enviable agreement and ensemble.
