Download, Machaut (composer)
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Camerata Bern accompanies the violinist on this latest foray into the meaning of life, the universe and everything. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Machaut: A Lover's Death
Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone), Angus Smith (tenor), Orlando Consort
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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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Grandelevoix explore the sacred in Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame with portamento and vocal twists and turns, shocking with visceral, stone-ground sonorities in exciting, idiosyncratic,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Early Music
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This is a landmark recording and a courageous venture. It's probably the first devoted to Machaut's motets, containing no fewer than 18 of the 23 that survive. It's certainly the first to present... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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This is a compelling, richly ornamented account of the earliest known polyphonic mass by a named composer; exquisite, otherworldly harmonies and eternal words, delivered with clarity, passion... —
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The Mirror of Narcissus
EMILY VAN EVERA soprano, MARGARET PHILPOT contralto, ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP, ANDREW KING tenors, COLIN SCOTT MASON, PETER McCRAE baritones, with EMMA KIRKBY soprano
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
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Song of Beasts
Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Songs
Ensemble Dragma, Jane Achtman, Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett, Marc Lewon
Animal magic as never before...If you’ve seen creatures depicted in carvings on church pews, ivories, or in the bestiaries popular in the period, you’ll respond to these spare, atmospheric songs...Nothing... —
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The wind ensemble is most effective in the rousing battle pieces, where one senses less the absence of words and voice. Blondel’s playing throughout is finely controlled – phrased and articulated... —
