Graindelavoix
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Grandelevoix explore the sacred in Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame with portamento and vocal twists and turns, shocking with visceral, stone-ground sonorities in exciting, idiosyncratic,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Antoine Brumel: Earthquake Mass
Manuel Mota, Berlinde Deman, Lluís Coll i Trulls, Pierre-Antoine Tremblay, Christopher Price, Björn Schmelzer, Graindelavoix
The result is an immersive experience of near-Stockhausenesque scope, largely successful on its own terms, with superlative playing and deft transitions between the Mass and the new materials. —
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They incorporate instrumental elaborations and add ornaments to the individual lines. In a piece such as Parfons regretz. this allows the singer of a particular part to sing as though responding... —
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Poissance d'amours
Mystics, monks and minstrels in 13th-century Brabant
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer (director)
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Cecus: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries
Recorded in Duisburg (Belgium) in February 2010
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer
[The Agricola is] the first recording of a piece that looks slight on the page but is moving enough in performance...it's good of Graindelavoix to tackle some fo the famous pieces of the time... —
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If you’re familiar with sacred vocal polyphony sung by pure-voiced English groups, these rasping and gravelly vocal timbres could hardly be further removed…It’s an interesting and ultimately... —
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.. The beautifully balanced, positively projected 11 voices of Graindelavoix lavish on the Franco-Flemish Champion’s Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena — an ingenious and rich-textured commentary... —
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the singing and playing is generally convincing and the performers are clearly well acquainted with this quirky repertoire. —
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Cesena: Songs for Popes, Princes & Mercenaries
Codex Chantilly [C1400]
Olalla Alemán, Eurudike De Beul (superius), Yves Van Handenhove, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Lieven Gouwy (tenor) & Tomàs Maxé, Antoni Fajardo, Thomas Vanlede (basses)
Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer
everything is done with considerable precision and there are some superb voices, carefully controlled. Equally, it is clear that a powerful mind has gone to work on trying to see and hear this... —
