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) |
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) |
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... |
Orlando Consort
Various: Medieval Christmas [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] |
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
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. |
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) |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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 |
GUILLAUME de MACHAUT
Songs from Le Voir Dit The Orlando Consort [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Sep/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD NOMINATION 2014 |
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) |