The 14th century composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut is most famous for his Messe de Nostre Dame, the oldest complete mass setting and a landmark in Western music history, though in his time he was equally celebrated for his secular vocal music. This 2016 Hyperion release by the Orlando Consort presents an assortment of Machaut's songs, which were examples of courtly love poetry set in the forms of the unaccompanied virelai and the contrapuntal rondeau and ballade . That Machaut was a cleric at Reims Cathedral seems ...
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The 14th century composer and poet Guillaume de Machaut is most famous for his Messe de Nostre Dame, the oldest complete mass setting and a landmark in Western music history, though in his time he was equally celebrated for his secular vocal music. This 2016 Hyperion release by the Orlando Consort presents an assortment of Machaut's songs, which were examples of courtly love poetry set in the forms of the unaccompanied virelai and the contrapuntal rondeau and ballade . That Machaut was a cleric at Reims Cathedral seems not to have interfered with the production of such amorous and potentially erotic songs, and the popularity of his vocal music furthered the development of the Ars nova , which came to dominate French and Burgundian music for the next century. The smooth performances by countertenor Matthew Venner, tenors Mark Dobell and Angus Smith, and baritone Donald Greig are wonderfully evocative and full of medieval atmosphere, and the complications of Machaut's polyphonic...
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