Orlando Consort - Food, Wine, & Song - Music and Feasting in Renaissance Europe
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Artist: Orlando ConsortEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Import
CD Release Date: 2001-11-13
Music Label: Harmonia Mundi (Fra)
Soundtracks:
- In paupertatis predio-Anonymous, Notre - Dame de Paris
- Chanconette/Ainc voire/A la cehminee/Par verite - Anonymous, Montpellier Codex
- Prenes l'arbre/He resveille toi Robin - Adam de la Halle
- Nes qu'on porroit - Guillaume de Machaut
- Apparuerunt apostolos v. Spiritus Domini - Anonymous, Fountaines Abbey 1st Manuscript
- Nowell, Nowell: The Boares head - Richard Smert
- Si quis amat - Anonymous
- Cacciando per gustar - Antonio Zachara da Teramo
- Canto de' cardon - Anonymous, Florentine Carnival Song
- Donna di dentro/Dammene un pocho - Heinrich Isaac
- Canto di donne maestre di far cacio - Anonymous, Florentine Carnival Song
- Adieu cs bons vins de Lannoys - Guillaume Dufay
- Je ne vis onques - Gilles Binchois
- Sile fragor - Loyset Compere
- La plus grant chiere - Anonymous
- La tricotea - Anonymous
- Ave color vini clari - Juan Ponce
- Oy comamos y bebamos - Juan del Encina
- Quen tem farelos - Anonymous
- Von Eyren - Matthias Greiter
- Von edler Art - Ludwig Senfl
- Trinkt und singt - Anonymous
Music reviews of Food, Wine, & Song - Music and Feasting in Renaissance Europe
Music Review: A Shopping Cart Full of Treats
Rating: 5 Stars
"Food, Wine & Song" is a musical sampler of 22 jolly songs from France, England, Italy, Burgundy and Germany over a period roughly from 1200 to 1600. That's a smorgasbord of different musical styles and structures, possibly too much variety to be appreciated as a single recorded 'concert', but the pieces are bound together by the theme of food and drink... and humor, rude, earthy, and lewd. Most of these songs were composed, I suspect, for the amusement of the composers themselves and their friends at social occasions, or else for the at-table revelry of patrons. A few of them make gestures toward respectability -- Machaut's love-song Nes qu'on porroit and a polyphonic motettus from Fountains Abbey, for instance -- but others compensate with shocking immodesty. The Florentine carnival song Canto de' Cardoni is an elaborate metaphor in food for carnal intercourse. La Tricotea is a 'gibberish' song about a lady 'wetting' herself. Ludwig Senfl's drinking song Von Edler Art is all about the pleasures of barfing in one's beard. Fortunately, all the texts of these witty and weird songs are included in the nicely-bound 119 page book that encloses the CD, with apt translations and historical notes.
Along with the texts, Food, Wine & Song includes a small collection of recipes "appropriate for degustation with each selection of music", from 'Frittata with Wild Greens' to 'Saffron Cake' to 'Haddock in Ale'. The recipes were prepared by well-known chefs in England today, based on Medieval and Renaissance sources. I've tried a few, and found them less 'tart' than the songs, but interesting. An experienced cook will be able to fudge them toward her/his own taste.
The main course, of course, is the singing of The Orlando Consort, four jolly gourmets whose appreciation for fine wines has not impaired their virtuosity a whit. No other consort, I think, could combine such perfect tuning and precise ensemble-singing with such lively, high-spirited interpretations. This is music meant for fun. It has to be obvious that the musicians are having fun with it. No sobriety or earnest museum 'authenticity' can bring these songs to life. The Orlandos are not afraid to 'let their hair down'. They can be delicate or raucous, refined or vulgar, as the music requires. Their vocal artistry is truly a feast for the ear.
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