Orlando Consort - The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry (Medieval Gardens in Music) - Orlando Consort
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Artist: Orlando ConsortPerformer: Donald Greig
Performer: Robert MacDonald
Composer: Alexander Agricola
Composer: Codex Bamberg Anonymous
Composer: English Anonymous
Composer: French Anonymous
Composer: Spanish Anonymous
Composer: Jacques Arcadelt
Composer: Antoine Brumel
Composer: Carpentras (Elzear Genet)
Composer: Rodrigo de Ceballos
Composer: Clemens non Papa (Jacob Clement)
Composer: Thomas Crecquillon
Composer: Walter Frye
Composer: Nicolas Gombert
Composer: Francisco Guerrero
Composer: Johannes Lupi
Composer: Guillaume de Machaut
Composer: Gabriel Mena
Composer: Dominique Phinot
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-03-14
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
Soundtracks:
- Rose, liz, printemps, verdue (Machaut)
- El mois de Mai/De se debent/ Kyrie (Anonymous)
- He, Marotele/En la praerie/Aptatur (Anonymous)
- Passerose de beaute (Trebor)
- Flos regalis (Anonymous)
- Flos regalis: Agnus Dei (Walter Frye)
- Quam pulchra es (Leonel Power)
- Soubz les branches/ En la rousee/ Jolis mois de may (Anonymous)
- Royne des flours (Alexander Agricola)
- Dindiridin (Anonymous)
- En la fuente del rosel (Juan Vasquez)
- Hortus conclusus (Rodrigo de Ceballos)
- Aqella mora garrida (Gabriel [Mena])
- Quasi cedrus (Francisco Guerrero)
- Changeons propos (Claudin de Sermisy)
- Sicut lilium (Antoine Brumel)
- Vidi speciosam (Johannes Lupi)
- Haec est illa dulcis rosa / Salve (Carpentras [Elzear Genet ])
- Da la belle contrade d'oriente (Cipriano de Rore)
- I vaghi fiori (Jacques Arcadelt)
- Ecce tu pulcher es (Dominque Phinot)
- Des herbes ai asses (Thomas Crecquillon)
- Au ioly bocquet croist la violette (Clemens non Papa [Jacob Clement])
- O flos campi (Nicholas Gombert)
Music reviews of The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry (Medieval Gardens in Music) - Orlando Consort
Music Review: An Economy Based on Beauty
Rating: 4 Stars
In the "illuminated" (hand-painted) manuscripts of the 14th-16th Centuries, one sees a world of lost beauty. The skies were bluer, the breezes more sweetly scented, the birds more abundant, the stars more numerous, and it was blessedly quiet. Quiet enough to hear a lute in a garden. Quiet enough that the sounds of threshing and fulling cloth must have mingled pleasantly with the voices of monks and confraternalists chanting the Hours. A look at the clothes and furniture depicted in the paintings proves surely that beauty took precedence over comfort. Even the sheep-cotes and fish weirs of the era show an attention to beauty of design, and tourists today pay fortunes to trot through the crumbling ruins of the handsome cottages and sumptuous palaces of the late Middle Ages.
A choice selection of miniature paintings is reproduced in this booklet/CD package from The Orlando Consort. The booklet is 114 pages of pictures, song texts, and essays concerning gardens, floral symbolism, and music from France, England, Spain, Italy, and Burgundy. The CD includes motets and chansons by composers such as Guillaume Machaut, Walter Frye, Juan Vasquez, Cipriano de Rore, and Alexander Agricola. As a musical program, frankly the selection is too diverse and inclusive to make concert sense, but no law requires you to listen to the CD all in one sitting. [That's my response to the intelligent but over-critical previous review by Maddy Evil.] Piece by piece, The Orlando Consort has never sounded better or more sensitive to stylistic nuances.
Virtually all music from the late Medieval - early Renaissance is either three or four part composition, and whatever anyone tells you, performance by voices one-on-a-part was the norm and is the most satisfactory. This is particularly true in chansons, which are sung poetry above all. You've got to hear words! even if you don't understand the language. The Orlando Consort, an ensemble of four male singers, always delivers the poetry with emotive clarity. They also have a rare mastery of the rhythmic devices that make this music challenging and interesting. Hocket is an example. Hocket is the inclusion of silences in the melodic lines - not mere rests! melodic silences, often lasting only a fraction of a beat. When hockets are alternated in lines of polyphony, the notes seem to be tossed like balls between the singers, and the lines of melody interpenetrate each other like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Hocket requires intense togetherness and reckless confidence. The Orlandos also have superb tuning, the best of any vocal ensemble singing early music; there are special challenges in this repertoire that they have to overcome. The pre-Dufay selections on this disk, for instance, require Pythagorean tuning, while the later pieces sound best with Mean tuning; the former requires perfect fourths and sixths, while the latter demands lower thirds and perfect fifths. Modern tempered tuning just won't work. Of course, all the technique in creation wouldn't matter if the singers didn't have lovely voices, because, like everything in the Age of Beauty, music was above all intended to be beautiful. This is a beautiful little package of words, pictures, and music. It would make a stunning Valentine.
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This beautiful CD of music from the 13th to 16th centuries in France, England, Spain, Italy, and the Low Countries finds the all-male Orlando Consort centering their attention on texts having to do with the garden and flowers. They open with a beautiful chanson by Machaut and his unique technique of playing melodies and texts off one another simultaneously to make a stunning blend--an ideal floral arrangement, if you will. The Virgin Mary is often referred to in floral terms, so many of these works are religious in nature, and there's a terrific motet by Brumel from The Song of Songs. Tempi and textures vary, so that there's never a sense of tedium. The CD comes with a grandly illustrated booklet, filled with reproductions, in brilliant color, of Medieval and Renaissance art. The idea, the music making, the presentation are all ravishing; this is already one of the best CDs of 2006. --Robert LevineGombert, Nicolas CDs
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