Machaut: Sovereign Beauty

The latest instalment in a series which continues to garner the highest critical plaudits. The Orlando Consort bring their customary virtues of ‘supreme text-sensitivity and beauty of tone’ (Early Music Today) to another recital showcasing the breadth of Machaut’s musical and poetic inventiveness.

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GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE

‘If I hear a finer recording of 14th-century music this year I’ll be very surprised’ (Gramophone)
‘The Orlando Consort sings with a superb blend of sophisticated delivery and sweetness, with a gentleness that results in a whole, not a collection of colliding tropes … there is something satisf ...