Guillaume de Machaut, Orlando Consort - Dreams in the Pleasure Garden
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Artist: Guillaume de Machaut, Orlando ConsortEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-01-12
Music Label: Polygram Records
Soundtracks:
- Chansons: Tant doucement
- Chansons: Comment puet on
- Chansons: De Fortune
- Chansons: Mors sui
- Chansons: Se quanque amours
- Chansons: Je ne cuit pas
- Chansons: Liement me deport
- Chansons: Je puis trop bien
- Chansons: Certes mon oueil
- Chansons: En amer a douce vie
- Chansons: He! Dame de valour
- Chansons: Une Vipere
- Chansons: Ma fin est mon commencement
- Chansons: De toutes flours
Music reviews of Dreams in the Pleasure Garden
Music Review: Interesting music, great singing
Rating: 5 Stars
The music on this CD represents the style of composition prevalent in the mid-14th century, the so called ars nova. This style was notable for "hocketing" (i.e. oscillation between short notes and short rests in the upper voices), and even syncopation, but it also included a technique quite different from the ones just mentioned - the so called isorhythm (i.e. regularly repeating rhythmic and harmonic structures). Machaut was a great master of both of these facets of ars nova, but he was by no means the only one, as was demonstrated by a recent Clerks' recording of music from the Ivrea Codex (and if you ask me, the greatest master of isorhythm was John Dunstable). As the in-house reviewer mentions, the music on this disc is more idiosyncratic, less regular, more syncopated than the typical 14-th century musical output. Breaking the rules while perfecting the style has always been a sign of genius, in any age. The Orlando Consort give this music the recording it deserves (I must commend this group for carving out a niche for themselves despite the fact that the idea of having an all-male quartet sing early music so smacks of the Hilliard that it would seem to be a difficult act to follow). The voices blend exquisitely, combining the beauty of tone with an expert technique - even Robert Jones, whose voice I normally find rather harsh, sounds relatively mellow and seductive in this recording. Charles Daniels is great, as always: his solo piece, Liement me deport, is utterly delightful. gkolomietz@yahoo.com
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