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Simon Heighes recommends recordings which best represent the music of Guillaume de Machaut. Celebrated and internationally renowned in his own time, the fourteenth-century Guillaume de Machaut, composer of secular and sacred music, is one of the great names in Western music.

Top recommendation:

The Mirror of Narcissus

MACHAUT: Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient; Foy porter, honneur garder; Dame, je sui cils / Fins cuers dous / Fins cuers dous; Tuit mi penser; Dame, mon cuer en vous remaint; Dame, a qui; Biaut茅 qui toutes autres pere; Je vivroie liement; Rose, lis, printemps, verdure; Dame, a vous sans retollir; Amours me fait desirer; Douce dame jolie; Inviolata genitrix / Felix virgo / Contratenor / Ad te suspiramus

Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), Colin Mason (baritone), Emily van Evera (soprano), Margaret Philpot (alto), Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (conductor)

HYPERION CDA66087 (Download Only)

ALSO RECOMMENDED:

Machaut: Mass
MACHAUT: Messe de Nostre Dame; Le lay de la fonteinne 'Je ne cesse de prier', L11; Ma fin est mon commencement, R14
The Hilliard Ensemble
HYPERION CDA66358 (CD)

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