Loyset compere biography samples

CD Review

The Orlando Consort was formed as long ago as by the Early Music Network of Great Britain to perform music from the mid-eleventh to mid-sixteenth centuries. Informed by scholarship, their performances have been of a consistently high standard. Here is their second CD devoted solely to the music of Loyset Compère (the first, from 20 years ago, is no longer available).

Recorded in September , it contains a representative sample of ten of his vocal works ranging in length from under three to over twelve minutes… the splendid Magnificat primi toni [tr.1] makes a huge impact at the start of the CD, and is the longest work here.

Loyset compere biography samples pdf

The precision of the articulation and enunciation of Orlando Consort members, Matthew Venner countertenor, Angus Smith and Mark Dobell tenors and Donald Greig baritone, is excellent. Never fussy. Nor yet "passive", the four singers present the music as it must surely have been intended to be heard. There is a simplicity