The Rose, the Lily & the Whortleberry - Medieval Gardens / Orlando Consort

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Album Summary

Performers

• Mark Dobell (Tenor)
• Donald Greig (Baritone)
• Angus Smith (Chant)
• Robert MacDonald (Bass)
• Robert Harre-Jones (Countertenor)

Composers

• Francisco Guerrero (Renaissance) (1528 - 1599)
• Johannes Lupi (1506 - 1539)
• Jacques Arcadelt (1505 - 1568)
• Jacobus Clemens Non Papa (circa 1510 - circa 1556)
• Anonymous, Codex Bamberg
• Anonymous, English
• Alexander Agricola (1446 - 1506)
• Rodrigo de Ceballos (1530 - 1591)
• Claudin de Sermisy (1490 - 1562)
• Carpentras (Elzear Genet) (1470 - 1548)
• Dominique Phinot (circa 1510 - circa 1555)
• Nicolas Gombert (circa 1495 - circa 1560)
• Anonymous, French
• Walter Frye (14th Century - fl. 1450-1475)
• Anonymous, Spanish
• Gabriel Mena (circa 1470 - 1528)
• Antoine Brumel (1460 - circa 1515)
• Cipriano de Rore (circa 1515 - 1565)
• Thomas Crecquillon (circa 1505-1515 - circa 1557)
• Guillaume de Machaut (circa 1300 - 1377)
• Jean Robert Trebor
• Leonel Power (circa 1370-1385 - 1445)
• Juan Vasquez (16th cent. Composer) (circa 1510 - circa 1560)

Notes & Reviews:

Available again by popular demand, the Orlando Consort's The Rose, the Lily and the Whortleberry explores the inventiveness of European composers from the 13th - 16th centuries who used floral imagery to illustrate both earthly and heavenly love. The disc's selections effortlessly switch between enchanting representations of horticulture and sentiments that would make any gardener blush. The set includes complete song texts as well as full-color garden illustrations. As a special bonus, Christopher Bradley-Hole, one of the world's top garden designers, contributes a Medieval garden plan with a contemporary twist.

"As we might expect from a program devoted to a garden theme, there's tremendous variety on display, from the more overt harmonies and saucy rhythms to the more delicate, subtle details of phrasing, dynamics, and expressive nuance. And yet, as in any well-planned garden, these varied components all fit together in one pleasing, compatible whole, any part of which may be enjoyed separately or in the context of the greater setting." ClassicToday.com

BBC Music Magazine
This gorgeous package is like a CD-sized hardback book, full of beautiful medieval paintings and photographs of surviving gardens. ... performances are of the high standard expected from the Orlando Consort. Even settings of risqué lyrics... have an elegance that would disarm the most puritanical listener, and it's all sung with clarity and grace. Altogether a garden of delights.

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Machaut, Guillaume de : Rose, liz, rondeau for 4 voices

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 4 min. 25 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Written: 13th Century

Anonymous, Codex Bamberg : El mois de mai - De se debent - Kyrie

• Performers: Mark Dobell (Tenor); Donald Greig (Baritone); Angus Smith (Chant)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Form: Choral

Anonymous, French : Hé marotele / En praerie / Aptat, motet

• Performers: Mark Dobell (Tenor); Donald Greig (Baritone); Angus Smith (Chant)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 1 min. 14 sec.

Trebor, Jean Robert : Passerose de beauté

• Performers: Mark Dobell (Tenor); Donald Greig (Baritone); Angus Smith (Chant)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 2 min. 43 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval

Anonymous, English : Flos regalis virginalis, conductus for 3 voice

• Performers: Mark Dobell (Tenor); Donald Greig (Baritone); Angus Smith (Chant)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Written: 12th Century

Frye, Walter : Mass "Flos regalis" :: Agnus Dei

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 5 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Choral

Power, Leonel : Quam pulchra es, for 3 voices

• Performers: Robert MacDonald (Bass); Donald Greig (Baritone); Angus Smith (Chant)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 3 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Anonymous, French : Soubz les branches / En la rousée / Jolis mois de may, chanson (from Dijon, Burgundy)

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.

Agricola, Alexander : Royne des flours, chanson

• Performers: Mark Dobell (Tenor); Robert Harre-Jones (Countertenor); Donald Greig (Baritone)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 4 min. 6 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Anonymous, Spanish : Dindirín, dindirín, romance

• Performers: Mark Dobell (Tenor); Donald Greig (Baritone); Angus Smith (Chant)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)

Vasquez, Juan : En la fuente del Rosel, villancico for 4 voices

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 1 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: by 1560

de Ceballos, Rodrigo : Hortus Conclusus

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 4 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Mena, Gabriel : Aquella Mora Garrida

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 2 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Guerrero, Francisco (Renaissance) : Quasi cedrus, motet

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 5 min. 32 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Sermisy, Claudin de : Changeons propos, chanson

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 3 min. 15 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Brumel, Antoine : Sicut Lilium Inter Spinas for 4 voices

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 1 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Lupi, Johannes : Vidi speciosam, motet

• Performer: Robert MacDonald (Bass)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 5 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Genet), Carpentras (Elzear : Haec est illa dulcis rosa / Salve, motet

• Performer: Robert MacDonald (Bass)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 2 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Rore, Cipriano de : Da le belle contrade d'oriente, madrigal

• Performer: Robert MacDonald (Bass)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Arcadelt, Jacques : I vaghi fiori e l'amorose fronde, madrigal for 4 voices, S. 7/46

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 1 min. 41 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: 1549

Phinot, Dominique : Ecce tu pulcher es, motet

• Performer: Robert MacDonald (Bass)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 6 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Crecquillon, Thomas : Des herbes ai assés, chanson

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 1 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Clemens non Papa, Jacobus : Au ioly bocquet croist la violette, chanson

• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 1 min. 13 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance

Gombert, Nicolas : O flos campi, motet

• Performer: Robert MacDonald (Bass)
• Notes: St. Mary's Parish Church, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (11/02/2004-11/05/2004)
• Running Time: 7 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance