GUILLAUME DUFAY
Dufay: Lament for Constantinople & other songs The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/May/2019 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2019 TOP THREE - Early Music |
DUFAY / BINCHOIS / ISAAC / ANONYMOUS
The Florentine Renaissance The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jan/2022 ] "..the Orlando Consort, whose diction is always immaculate...it is great to have it drawn together on one very generously filled disc." MusicWeb |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
The Gentle Physician The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Sep/2018 ] The 'gentle physician' ('dous mire') is Hope, invoked by Machaut as a consolation for the sufferings-and all-too occasional joys-of medieval courtly love, a world with which the 'Orlandos' are persuasively familiar. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Fortune's Child The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] "As we have come to expect with this group, the performances are eminently professional and poised. The duet Riches d'amour is marvellously tuned and lithe, and several of the solo pieces are sung with purity and precision." BBC Music |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Songs from Remede de Fortune The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Feb/2023 ] The story told by the 'Remede' may be familiar - episodes of courtly life and love in fourteenthcentury France - but from it Machaut develops a magisterial work exploring themes of philosophy, psychology and artistic endeavour. |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: Sovereign Beauty The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "if I hear a finer recording of 14th-century music this year I'll be very surprised." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice, July 2017 |
TRADITIONAL
Medieval Christmas: 10th to 16th-century secular & liturgical music for feast days The Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] "As we've come to expect, the singing is first-rate--vibrant, impeccably tuned, and with a strong rhythmic vitality, supported by ideal sound. And although it will be the rare listener who recognizes any of these works, that actually is a good thing:... |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Songs from Le Voir Dit The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
Orlando Consort/Perfect House
Extempore [ Linn / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |