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Track(s) taken from CDA68103

Se mesdisans en acort

composer
Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)
1vv; Virelai 15
author of text
Guillaume de Machaut (c1300-1377)

The Orlando Consort
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Recording details: May 2014
Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by David Hinitt
Release date: July 2016
Total duration: 4 minutes 31 seconds

Cover artwork: The Heart (Fol.38v, from ‘Traite de Medecine’, 1356). Aldebrande de Florence
Biblioteca del Palacio Nacional de Ajuda, Lisbon, Portugal / Bridgeman Images
 

Other recordings available for download

Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)

Reviews

‘[A] very impressive recital’ (Gramophone)

‘An approach that is attractive, suave and measured’ (BBC Music Magazine)» More
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‘An excellent starting point for exploring Machaut’s secular music. Whichever you start with, be prepared to want the others’ (MusicWeb International)

‘A finely sung and well recorded offering, this can only further Guillaume de Machaut’s position in the pantheon of the greats of medieval music and poetry’ (MusicWeb International)» More

‘This is the third collection of songs on the theme of courtly love by Guillaume de Machaut by the the Orlando Consort, who are proving the most committed of guides to the music and mores of fourteenth-century France. Each work in this album makes for alluring listening’ (The Northern Echo)

‘If you are tempted to go further than letting the music alone encompass you, you will be amazed at the complexity of the poems and the musical configurations that Machaut conjures up’ (AndrewBensonWilson.org)

Other albums featuring this work

The Study of Love
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (conductor)
CDH55295Download only

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