Cesena: Songs for Popes, Princes & Mercenaries

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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... — Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 More…

Release Date: 14th Nov 2011
Catalogue No: GCDP32106
Label: Glossa
Length: 71 minutes

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Pictagore per dogmata - O terra sancta - Rosa vernans caritatis [Codex Chantilly Ms 564]

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Philippus de Caserta: Espoir dont tu m'a fayt partir

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Solage: Corps feminin

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Solage: Fumeux fume par fumée

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Philippus de Caserta: Par les bons Gedeon et Sanson

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Inter densas - Imbribuis irriguis [Codex Chantilly Ms 564]

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Sancto Johanne: Science n'a nul annemi

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Johannes Galiot: En attendant d'amer

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Ciconia: Le ray au soleyl qui dret som kar meyne

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Jaquemin de Senleches: Fuions de ci, fuions

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trad.: Cujes li me Majko

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Hanelle: Hodie puer nascitur - Homo mortalis firmiter

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Adieu vous di [Codex Chantilly]

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Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix have recently embarked on a startling and radical new stage in their career which involves a collaboration with Rosas, the ensemble of choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, and which unites the music of the late 14th century Ars subtilior and contemporary dance.

In July 2011 the world première of the production 'Cesena' took place at Avignon in the medieval Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes (the performance commencing at 4.30am!), and Graindelavoix has recorded since then a “soundtrack” album for release on Glossa.

The contents of the album mirror the production onstage, and draw on the almost abstract structures, with their complex and fascinating contrapuntal relations, of this early polyphony, much of it deriving from the Codex Chantilly. Through the performances with Rosas, Schmelzer is hoping to gain new insights into performing this repertoire.

As to the meaning of the album’s title, Schmelzer says that 'Cesena' is only a good one if it functions in all different directions at once; whether it refers to an Italian city whose population was slaughtered in the late 14th century, at the time of the Western Schism in the Catholic Church, as both Rome and Avignon struggled for control, or to a very important Franciscan, Michael of Cesena who fought for a church in poverty against all the decadence of power or, indeed, to other ideas....

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May 2012

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 music in a new way...This is either a truly innovative approach to the music or a load of pretentious ideas that rather lost their way. I think, probably, a bit of both.

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