Machaut: A Lover's Death
Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone), Angus Smith (tenor), Orlando Consort
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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...
Machaut: A Lover's Death
Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone), Angus Smith (tenor), Orlando Consort
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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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The eleventh and final release in The Orlando Consort's comprehensive Machaut survey easily maintains the standards of its predecessors.
The closing couplet of the final track?'Their singing will be sublime/ Harmoniously will they render him praise'?might well serve as a motto for the Orlandos' achievement, not only in this album but throughout an illustrious career.
Contents and tracklist
Machaut:
Hareu! hareu! le feu / Helas! ou sera pris confors / Obediens usque ad mortem, Motet 10
Work length2:11
- Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Matthew Venner (countertenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
Machaut:
Quant vraie amour enflamee / O series summe rata / Super omnes speciosa, Motet 17
Work length2:40
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
- Mark Dobell (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
Machaut:
Martyrum gemma latria / iligenter inquiramus / A Christo honoratus, Motet 19
Work length3:15
- Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor)
- Orlando Consort
- Recorded: 2023-01-25
- Recording Venue: Parish Church of St. John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2025Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2026Nominated - Early Music
April 2025
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 of all – entirely without eccentricities.
