Guillaume de Machaut: The single rose
The Orlando Consort
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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...
Guillaume de Machaut: The single rose
The Orlando Consort
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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...
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The rose as symbol of both the beloved and of love itself: the ‘fleur des fleurs’ of the Roman de la rose is paid due homage by The Orlando Consort in this latest instalment of their essential series.
Contents and tracklist
Work length5:44
Work length4:11
Machaut:
Bone pastor Guillerme / Bone pastor, qui pastores / Bone pastor
Work length2:54
Work length5:07
Work length4:25
Work length5:55
Work length4:07
Work length4:45
Work length1:36
Work length5:26
Machaut:
Qui es promesses de Fortune / Ha! Fortune, trop sui mis loing / Et non est qui adjuvat
Work length2:10
Work length2:35
Machaut:
De triste cuer / Quant vrais amans / Certes, je di
Work length4:45
Machaut:
Fons totius Superbie / O Livoris feritas / Fera pessima
Work length3:02
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineOctober 2019Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2020Nominee - Early Music
October 2019
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 collection.
6th October 2019
With their stylish singing of a programme inspired by the floral imagery contained in the influential 13th-century poem Le Roman de la rose, the Orlando Consort’s four unaccompanied male singers ensure that these 14 beautiful virelais, ballades, rondeaux and motets still speak with eloquence and passion.
classicalsource.com September 2019
Close miking brings an immediacy of tone that is vocally vivid…
