Article
Review of The Hilliard Ensemble, Guillaume de Machaut: Motets. ECM Records, 2004
Music Faculty Research
Document Type
Review of a Music Recording
Publication Date
8-1-2004
Disciplines
Abstract
The motets of Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), though described by one scholar as "conservative and backward-looking" because of their heavy use of French texts, nonetheless provide a rich melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic palette for the extraordinary voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. The ensemble's recording of eighteen of the twenty-three known works in this genre (a twenty-fourth exists, but its attribution is spurious), is exemplary and should delight both the medieval scholar and the casual listener.
Citation Information
Stroeher, Vickie. Review of The Hilliard Ensemble, Guillaume de Machaut: Motets. ECM Records, 2004. Choral Journal 45 (August 2004): 77-78.
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