Popes & Antipopes: Orlando Consort

A Gramophone Editor’s Choice when first released, this Orlando Consort title came out the same year as the Gramophone Award Winner John Dunstaple. Now re-issued, this is a superb collection of music from the Papal Courts of Avignon and Rome from the 14th and 15th centuries.

Gloria, Clemens deus artifex tota clementia (c.1350)

Pictagore per dogmata / O terra sancta / Rosa vernans (1374-1376)

Mayheut de Joan: Inclite flos orti Gebenensis (1380s)

Philipoctus de Caserta: Par les bons Gedeon (1380s)

Ciconia: O Petre, Christi discipule (1409)

Bartolomeus de Bononia: Arte psalentes (1410s)

Velut: Benedicta viscera / Ave mater gratie / Ora pro nobis (1410s)

Tapissier: Eya dulcis / Vale placens (1410s)

Antonio de Civitate: Clarus ortu / Gloriosa mater (1421)

Nicolaus Zacharie: Già per gran nobeltà (c.1420)

Brassart: Te dignitas presularis (c.1425)

Dufay: Balsamus et munda cera (1431-1433)

Performers: Robert Harre Jones, Charles Daniels, Angus Smith, Don Greig