Gramophone Awards
2019
Finalist - Early Music

Gramophone Magazine
May 2019
Editor's Choice

The Orlando Consort

Dufay: O Tres Piteulx, 'Lamentatio Sancte Matris Ecclesie Constantinopolitane'
Dufay: Je vous pri / Ma tres douce amie! / Tant que mon argent dura
Dufay: La dolce vista
Dufay: Je Me Complains
Dufay: Mon chier amy
Dufay: Malheureulx Cueur
Dufay: Ma belle dame, je vous pri
Dufay: Pouray je avoir vostre mercy?
Dufay: Helas, & Quant Vous Veray?
Dufay: Je ne suy plus tel que souloye
Dufay: Je vueil chanter de cuer joyeux
Dufay: Ce moys de may (rondeau)
Dufay: Belle, que vous ay je mesfait?
Dufay: En triumphant de Cruel Dueil
Dufay: Par Le Regard De Vos Beaux Yeux
Dufay: Vostre Bruit & Vostre Grant Fame
Dufay: Le Serviteur
Dufay: Puisque vous estez campieur

One of the most immediately accessible of fifteenth-century composers, Dufay and his world are artfully summoned by The Orlando Consort. This is no mere musicological exercise, but a full-blooded realization of a truly great songwriter.

"The Orlandos are so experienced in this repertory that, nearly always, the choice of tempo and tone is spot-on (and tempo is perhaps the most important decision, given that absolute tempos are never indicated), which maximises the music’s communicative potential and more than compensates for the occasional vocal blemish." - Gramophone Magazine, May 2019.