JOHANNES OCKEGHEM
Ockeghem - Missa De plus en plus / Chansons Orlando Consort [ Archiv / CD - released 12/Oct/1997 ] "This is a beautifully and sensitively performed disc." (Classic CD) |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: The Lion of nobility The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Early Music |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: The Single Rose The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Aug/2019 ] "The singers combine pin-sharp tuning and gentle phrasing in this seductive collection." Gramophone Editor's Choice Oct 2019 |
ANONYMOUS / DOMINIQUE PHINOT / ANTOINE BRUMEL / JOHANNES LUPI / WALTER FRYE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry The Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 5/Feb/2006 ] ""…this gorgeous package is like a CD-sized hardback book, full of beautiful medieval paintings and photographs of surviving gardens. …performances are of the high standard expected from the Orlando Consort." BBC Music Five Stars |
DUFAY / OCKEGHEM / BUSNOIS / DUNSTABLE / PLUMMER / etc
Ars subtilior: Dawn of the Renaissance Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres / Orlando Consort / Huelgas Ensemble / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] Ars Subtilior: Dawn of the Renaissance is a collection that is the seventh volume in the Harmonia Mundi series Century. This is an idea previously pursued in the 1990s by the similarly named but wholly different concern Deutsche Harmonia Mundi as... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Early Music [Musique Ancienne]: From ancient times to Renaissance [10 CD set] Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres / Soeur Marie Keyrouz / Arianna Savall / Paul O'Dette / The King's Noyse / The Orlando Consort / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Century / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] From the Ancient World to the Renaissance with recordings drawn from the vast Harmonia Mundi catalogue. |
MACHAUT / O'REGAN / DUFAY / BRYARS
Scattered Rhymes Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier (director), Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / SACD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] "This collection has actually been programmed with considerable care...with the acoustic of the recording venue effectively becoming an additional element in the performance." (Choral & Song Recording of the Month BBC Music June 2008) |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Machaut: The fount of grace Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The 'fount of grace' of the title is the Virgin Mary, to whom Machaut addresses his appeals for mercy during a turbulent period in France's history. |
Orlando Consort
Busnois - Missa O Crux lignum, Motets, Chansons [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 25/Feb/2005 ] "The Orlando Consort functions on a consistently high level both in programming and in execution... this group quickly came to match the excellence of the best male vocal ensembles anywhere, not just in England." - Fanfare |
ANONYMOUS
The Call of the Phoenix: rare 15th Century Church music (music of Dunstaple; Frye; Plummer; Anonymous) Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 12/Dec/2002 ] "This forthright style of the Orlando Consort is accompanied by immaculate tuning, rhythmic concision and clear articulation of the text." BBC Music Magazine ( Dec 2002) Performance FIVE STARS - GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2003 - Early Music |
Orlando Consort
Food, Wine & Song - Music and Feasting in Renaissance Europe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 9/Dec/2001 ] Editor's Choice. Gramophone Magazine January 2002 |
LOYSET COMPERE
Compere: Magnificat, motets & chansons Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "this project is a confident affirmation that all-vocal recordings of 15th-century songs are well worth making' (Gramophone) |
OCKEGHEM
Missa de Plus en Plus / Chansons Orlando Consort [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "A superb recording of the mass and if you can live with the chansons, then I would go for it." (MusicWeb Nov 2010) |
Orlando Consort
The Toledo Summit [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Dec/2003 ] " This glorious, ancient music, expertly sung and ideally recorded, provides a happy respite in a world that in certain critical areas (except for those lip-synching, hyper-processed, tonally challenged pop stars) hasn't really changed much in 500... |
Orlando Consort
Various: Medieval Christmas [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
The Orlando Consort / Perfect Houseplants
Extempore II: A modern Mass for the Feast of St Michael based on the medieval melody L'homme arme [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 3/Jul/2003 ] The Orlando Consort and Perfect Houseplants reunite for their second intriguing collaboration—a fascinating blend of medieval polyphony, composed jazz, and improvisation |
ANONYMOUS / ALANUS / DAMETT / BYTTERING / DUNSTABLE / etc
Beneath the northern star: The rise of English polyphony, 1270-1430 The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Feb/2017 ] This new album from The Orlando Consort charts the radical development of music between the late thirteenth and mid fifteenth centuries-the transition from what is at essence embellished chant to the extraordinary mathematical intricacies of... |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
A Burning Heart The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2016 ] A third collection of songs on the theme of courtly love by Guillaume de Machaut. Throughout this series, the members of The Orlando Consort are proving the most committed of guides to the music and mores of fourteenth-century France. |
BUSNOIS
Missa O Crux lignum The Orlando Consort [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 29/Jul/2013 ] " You can hear why Busnois's music was admired so much by the Venetian madrigalists of the beginning of the 16th century." (The Guardian) |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
The dart of love The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Mar/2015 ] 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... |