Guillaume de Machaut : The dart of love

Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble — BBC Music Magazine, June 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2015
Catalogue No: CDA68008
Label: Hyperion
Length: 64 minutes

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Machaut: Il m'est avis qu'il n'est dons de Nature, B22

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Machaut: Se vous n'estes pour mon guerredon nee

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Machaut: Quant en moy / Amour et biauté parfaite / Amara valde

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Machaut: S'Amours ne fait par sa grace adoucir

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Machaut: Phyton, le mervilleus serpent, B38

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Machaut: Ay mi! dame de valour

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Machaut: Lasse! comment oublieray / Se j'aim mon loial amy / Pour quoy me bat mes maris?

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Machaut: Pour ce que tous mes chans fais

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Grant, Denis Le: Se je chant mains que ne suelh

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Machaut: Helas, tant ay doleur et peinne

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Machaut: Sans cuer, m'en vois / Amis dolens / Dame, par vous

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Machaut: Dame, je sui cils / Fins cuers dous / Fins cuers dous

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Machaut: Rose, liz, printemps

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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 set his remarkable poetry to music in this way we may never know, but the results continue to hold those who hear it enraptured.

Few groups have matched The Orlando Consort—formed in 1988 specifically to explore this repertoire—in capturing and recording the essence of Machaut. This is the second volume in their Machaut Edition for Hyperion.

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June 2015

Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble

March 2015

Much of the time the musical and textual argument puts the spotlight on the consort's younger members, the countertenor Matthew Venner and the higher tenor Mark Dobel...Their agility and Venner's clear, well-modulated timbre and admirably control of phrasing play no small part in the Orlandos' rejuvenation.

25th January 2015

Machaut, in the skilled hands of these musicians, turns these brutalities into music of ethereal purity, pulsating with poised, almost jaunty rhythms. Music for quiet concentration.

Early Music Today

The second anthology in the Orlando Consort’s Machaut marathon…[is] characterised by supreme text- sensitivity and beauty of tone. One marvels at their trademark exquisite balance and their ability to reveal even the most complex of Machaut’s structures with enviable agreement and ensemble.

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