
In the 10th or 12th or 15th centuries, Christmas as we know it hadn’t been invented, and such things as carols were yet to be
This is the sort of recording that requires an article rather than a two- or three-paragraph review. No part of this program—including the 14th-century Machaut
You may remember a few years ago the Orlando Consort’s magnificent debut for Harmonia Mundi, titled “Food, Wine, & Song”, which celebrated music and food
In 1993, the ensemble Pomerium offered a similar program of works by Antoine Busnois (or, Busnoys), a composer then virtually unknown to most listeners. The
These days a major event usually is accompanied by swarms of television cameras, blathering announcers, and the very latest “hot” pop star prancing, leaping, and
What to do first, the cooking or the music? Why not both; after all, one of the points of this new Orlando Consort recording/medieval cookbook
Early music fans know the Orlando Consort or at least have followed the individual exploits of its four members in various other equally distinguished groups,