Compère: Magnificat, motets & chansons
The Orlando Consort
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Early Music
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...
Compère: Magnificat, motets & chansons
The Orlando Consort
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Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Early Music
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...
About
The Orlando Consort’s third recording for Hyperion turns to the music of Loyset Compère, a composer the group first investigated some twenty years ago. In the intervening decades musicological goal-post shifting has elevated our composer from also-ran outsider to something of a trailblazer, the wonderfully complex Magnificat recorded here, for example, now being thought to predate the masterworks of Josquin by some fifteen years. A gorgeous selection of motets and chansons further charts this period of radical musical experimentation.
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Awards and reviews
October 2015
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 for bringing us this pleasing, interesting and innovative music.
