With this disc, the Orlando Consort follows the direction laid down by its successful Food, Wine & Song release of a few years back -- and the group outdoes itself. The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry takes as its musical point of departure the idea of the garden, which was central to the expressive culture of both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Images of flowers and gardens drove both the secular and often erotic language of courtly love and a great deal of religious musical thinking, as well, and one ...
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With this disc, the Orlando Consort follows the direction laid down by its successful Food, Wine & Song release of a few years back -- and the group outdoes itself. The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry takes as its musical point of departure the idea of the garden, which was central to the expressive culture of both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Images of flowers and gardens drove both the secular and often erotic language of courtly love and a great deal of religious musical thinking, as well, and one accomplishment of this wonderful disc is how it tracks the confluence of sacred and secular across the boundaries that conventionally mark the beginning of the Renaissance era. Indeed, even leaving the garden theme to one side, The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry is one of the best discs you can buy to hear the evolution of style from the time of Machaut's Ros, liz, printemps, verdure, which opens the proceedings in the middle of the fourteenth century, to the Netherlandish works of Clemens and...
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