Graindelavoix

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,... — Choir & Organ, January 2017 More…

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. — Gramophone Magazine, May 2024 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[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... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2011 More…

.. 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... — Sunday Times, 28th June 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Above all one is drawn to the ensemble’s tone, uncommonly deep, rich, absorbing in itself, and departing significantly from the treble-dominated spectrum that is so prevalent with English-speaking... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2018 More…