Machaut: Fortune's Child / Orlando Consort

In the latest installment in their series, which continues to garner the highest critical plaudits, The Orlando Consort bring their customary virtues of ''supreme text-sensitivity and beauty of tone'' (Early Music Today) to another recital showcasing the breadth of Machaut's musical and poetic inventiveness. The fourteen songs on this album chart the miseries and ecstasies of love, as Machaut depicts the suffering of the lover turned on Fortune's wheel.

Price: $22.98