Date/Time
Date(s) - 9 Feb 2014
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location
The Fuentiduena Chapel at The Cloisters
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Concerts at The Cloisters presents:
The Orlando Consort
The Discourse of Medieval Love
Sunday, February 9, at 1 and 3 p.m
When C. S. Lewis asserted that medieval allegorical poetry was “apt to repel the modern reader,” he did so at a time when the modern performance of medieval music was in its infancy. It is not known if in 1936 Lewis had heard any of the numerous chansons by Guillaume de Machaut, the bawdy and sometimes suggestive carnival songs from Florence, or the luscious harmonies set to the Song of Songs by composers like Dunstable, Clemens and Gombert. The Orlando Consort, from England, performs this program of secular and sacred music to stir and charm the modern audience, illustrating the ways in which desire inspired the medieval mind.
Tickets: $40. A discounted ticket price of $20 is available to students with current ID for tickets bought at the door on the day of the concert.
For advance tickets, please visit our website at www.metmuseum.org, or call the box office at (212) 570-3949.
The Orlando Consort (Robert Harre-Jones, Matthew Venner, Charles Daniels, Mark Dobell, Angus Smith, Donald Greig) was formed in 1988 by the Early Music Centre of Great Britain (now National Centre for Early Music) to perform music composed between the years 1050 and 1600. The group has made many commercial recordings with Saydisc, Metronome, Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi USA: “The Mystery of Notre Dame” was nominated for an Edison award in the Netherlands; “The Works of John Dunstaple” and “The Call of the Phoenix” were chosen as the Gramophone Early Music CD for 1996 and 2003, respectively. The Consort has recently begun a long-term project to record the complete polyphonic songs of Guillaume de Machaut for Hyperion Records.
The Consort has been recognized with the 1996 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society for its work on 12th-century polyphony from Aquitaine. In Britain, the Consort has appeared at major festivals and venues, including the BBC Proms, the Edinburgh International Festival, the York and Beverley Early Music Festivals, the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London. Internationally, the Consort has performed extensively in Europe, North and South America, and the Far East. In partnership with the Radcliffe Trust, the Consort currently holds residencies at Bangor, Nottingham, and Durham Universities.