The Orlando Consort - Guillaume Dufay: Lament for Constantinople & other songs (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 70:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68236 | Recorded: 2017
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 289 Mb | Total time: 70:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA68236 | Recorded: 2017
The music of Guillaume Dufay is often said to lie on the boundary between medieval and Renaissance. It is complex in the manner of medieval polyphony, sometimes with multiple texts in different languages, and intricate rhyme schemes. Yet, in its evocative use of vertical sonority and its original texts in the songs, it approaches a manner of text-setting that you can recognize as modern. His chansons are not often recorded, so this release of 18 chansons from the Orlando Consort would be welcome on general principles; it has virtues considerably beyond that.