Guillaume de Machaut, the master poet-composer of fourteenth-century France, served for many years as the canon of the great Gothic cathedral at Reims, where the kings of the realm were crowned.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guillaume de Machaut's 14th century mass may evoke blues and jazz for some listeners. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) How to ...

Travelogue DVDs are the favored entertainment in my dentist’s office during teeth cleaning. Once, as I was distracting myself by following a helicopter tour over the historic Notre-Dame Cathedral in ...

This is obviously a red-letter day. The Orlando Consort’s complete songs of Machaut is concluded (lacking only a few monophonic lais): all 11 albums with the same four singers, all beautifully ...

This is neither the first recording of Machaut’s most famous work to have been made in Rheims Cathedral, where the composer worked, nor the first to present the Mass as part of a ‘liturgical ...

The Hilliard Ensemble's Machaut MotetsMusician and Day to Day contributor David Was reviews a new recording of motets by the 14th-century composer Machaut. Was finds some very modern elements in the ...

The Orlando Consort – a countertenor, two tenors and a baritone – have been singing medieval and early Renaissance music for nearly three decades. This latest disc celebrates the 14th-century French ...

MESSENGER’s view of the 100 km crater Machaut. I don’t think I need to say much, except there’s more to come.

Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser's largely mellower and investigative Consort in Motion differs from his acclaimed quartet's often hard- hitting and somewhat deviously entertaining persona for the ...