Orlando Consort
Active: 1988 - ; England
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Four young English singers were invited to tour Great Britain in 1988 by the Early Music Network. The group that resulted, the Orlando Consort, has become one of the most accomplished of its type, performing an extremely broad repertoire of vocal music largely from, but not limited to, the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.
The four singers were not only chosen for their individual vocal talents (each a recognized soloist) and for their
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Adam de la Halle (1)
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Agricola, Alexander (1)
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Anchieta, Juan de (1)
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Anonymous (9)
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Binchois, Gilles (3)
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Brumel, Antoine (3)
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Bryars, Gavin (1)
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Busnois, Antoine (5)
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Clemens non Papa, Jacobus (2)
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Compère, Loyset (5)
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De Lantins, Arnold (2)
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de Mondejar, Alonso (1)
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De Vitry, Philippe (1)
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Des Préz, Josquin (5)
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Divitis, Antonius (1)
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Dufay, Guillaume (6)
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Dunstable, John (3)
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Encina, Juan del (1)
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Frye, Walter (1)
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Greig, Donald (1)
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Greiter, Matthias (1)
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Harre-Jones, Robert (1)
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Isaac, Heinrich (2)
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La Rue, Pierre de (1)
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Lagarto, Pedro de (1)
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Lockheart, Mark (1)
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Luchas, Gabriel (1)
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Machaut, Guillaume de (4)
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O'Regan, Tarik (1)
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Obrecht, Jacob (1)
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Ockeghem, Johannes (2)
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Peñalosa, Francisco de (1)
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Pérotin (1)
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Phillips, Dudley (1)
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Ponçe, Juan (1)
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Power, Leonel (1)
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Senfl, Ludwig (1)
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Smert, Richard (2)
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Smith, Angus (1)
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Tavener, John (1)
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Tinctoris, Johannes de (1)
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Torre, Francisco de la (1)
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Trebor (1)
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Various (1)
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Warren, Hue (1)
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Zachara Teramo, Antonio (1)
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Biography |
by Thomas Oram
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Four young English singers were invited to tour Great Britain in 1988 by the Early Music Network. The group that resulted, the Orlando Consort, has become one of the most accomplished of its type, performing an extremely broad repertoire of vocal music largely from, but not limited to, the twelfth to fifteenth centuries.
The four singers were not only chosen for their individual vocal talents (each a recognized soloist) and for their experience in early music ensembles (including the Tallis Scholars and both the Gabrieli and Taverner Consorts), but in particular for their intellectual command of their repertoire. The group has shown a particular concern for accurate performance practice, especially in their willingness to tackle issues such as improvisation and tuning. Such expertise has led to projects with scholars such as Gregorian chant scholar Richard Crocker and early English vocal expert Roger Wibberley, among many others; the group also received the Noah Greenberg Award of the American Musicological Society in 1996 for a collaborative project with Jeanice Brooks and Daniel Leech-Wilkinson.
In addition to frequent performances at international festivals, the group has pursued an active recording schedule. Their remarkable discography has averaged one release for each year since their inception. Notable areas include early English music (John Dunstable and the recently discovered Worcester fragments), the Franco-Flemish school of composers (including Johannes Ockeghem and Josquin Desprez but also the obscure Loyset Compère), and Notre Dame polyphony (Léonin and Pérotin). Their recording John Dunstaple won the Early Music award from Gramophone magazine in 1996; Loyset Compère, Popes and Antipopes, and Worcester Fragments have also received nominations.
Countertenor Robert Harre-Jones, tenors Angus Smith and Charles Daniels, and baritone Donald Greig have also pursued crossover projects, most notably their work with the jazz group Perfect Houseplants (Extempore) and for their planned medieval/modern War Requiem with actor Robert Hardy. |
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