Gramophone Magazine
October 2019
Editor's Choice

The Orlando Consort

Machaut: De toutes flours
Machaut: Se ma dame m'a guerpi
Machaut: Bone pastor Guillerme / Bone pastor, qui pastores / Bone pastor
Machaut: Merci vous pri
Machaut: Se d'amer me repentoie
Machaut: Je sui aussi
Machaut: Se je souspir parfondement
Machaut: Certes mon oueil
Machaut: Quant je sui mis au retour, V13
Machaut: De tout sui si confortee
Machaut: Qui es promesses de Fortune / Ha! Fortune, trop sui mis loing / Et non est qui adjuvat
Machaut: Loyauté vueil tous jours
Machaut: De triste cuer / Quant vrais amans / Certes, je di
Machaut: Fons totius Superbie / O Livoris feritas / Fera pessima

The rose as symbol of both the beloved and of love itself: the ‘fleur des fleurs’ of the Roman de la rose is paid due homage by The Orlando Consort in this latest instalment of their essential series.

"That evergreen theme of courtly love inspires in Machaut extraordinary harmonies and beautiful, primitive counterpoint. The singers combine pin-sharp tuning and gentle phrasing in this seductive collection." - BBC Music Magazine, October 2019.