Machaut: The Gentle Physician - Orlando Consort

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De Fortune (3vv)[4'58]
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De bonté, de valour[3'58]
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J'aim miex languir[4'09]
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Quant ma dame[3'21]
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Helas! et comment aroie[5'22]
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Maugré mon cuer / De ma dolour / Quia amore langueo[2'27]
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Je vivroie liement[2'48]
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Dame, comment qu'amez[7'40]
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S'onques dolereusement 'Le lay de confort'[23'04]
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De Fortune (4vv)[1'47]

The ‘gentle physician’ (‘dous mire’) is Hope, invoked by Machaut as a consolation for the sufferings—and all-too occasional joys—of medieval courtly love, a world with which the ‘Orlandos’ are persuasively familiar.