CONCENTUS MORAVIAE: Graindelavoix, Björn Schmelzer

Graindelavoix
Teodora Tommasi
Florencia Menconi
Andrew Hallock
Albert Riera
Marius Peterson
Tomàs Maxé
Arnout Malfliet
Björn Schmelzer / artistic direction

Programme:
Guillaume de Machaut
Sanctus (Messe de Nostre Dame)

Solage
Fumeux fume

Matteo da Perugia
Hélas Avril

Mattheus de Sancto Johanne
Science na nul annemi

Guillaume de Machaut
Agnus Dei (Messe de Nostre Dame)

Jacob de Senleches
Je me merveil

Johannes Ciconia
Le ray au soleyl

Galiot (Giangaleazzo Visconti?)
En atendant d’amer

Jean Hanelle
Hodie puer nascitur/Homo Mortalis

Polyphony Anno 1400
The concerts of Graindelavoix are always adventures and time travel, rock’n roll and archaic ritual at the same time. The ensemble and its director Björn Schmelzer understand the late Middle Ages as a highly modern era. The Belgian chamber choir dedicates itself to the untapped treasures of a musical epoch that seems both infinitely distant and very close, with unearthly perfect harmony and highly individual voices. Guillaume de Machaut is still the best known of these masters of early polyphony, whose almost »unnatural« rhythmic and harmonic experiments opened the gates of music history wide open.