Orlando Consort
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Machaut at his most engaging and varied...this really is one bullseye after another...Rarely since the Gothic Voices has the vocalisation of the lower lines appeared so self-evidently the right... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Early Music
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit
The Orlando Consort: Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor) & Donald Greig (baritone)
[Venner and Dobell] display the most magnificent articulation of the texts alongside the understanding of the lines gained from their senior colleagues...Those who know the Orlando Consort will... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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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 —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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Their approach is rather different from the refined blend of such pioneering groups as Gothic Voices; exploiting, instead, the contrasts in timbre and character between the four voices and varying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Machaut: A Lover's Death
Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone), Angus Smith (tenor), Orlando Consort
The Orlando Consort’s complete songs of Machaut is concluded...all 11 albums with the same four singers, all beautifully controlled, all perfectly balanced and paced, and – perhaps most important... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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This album finds the quartet in excellent shape, with their clarity of idea and warmth of sound as strong as ever. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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The group seems most at home in the sacred pieces, the Magnificat and O bone Jesu, where their harmonious, 'choral' sound can be put to good use...We owe a debt of gratitude to the Orlando Consort... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Early Music
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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 (Dame... —
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