Confréries: Devotional Songs by Jaikes de Cambrai: Villard de Honnecourt: Métier, memories and travels of a 13th-century cathedral builder, vol. 2

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I’ve anticipated this disc since being blown away by Volume 1 in 2012. Mesmerising immediacy and earthiness, worth the wait. — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013 More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: GCDP32108
Label: Glossa
Length: 63 minutes

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Cambrai: Grant talent ai k'a chanteir me retraie

Work length3:40

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Cambrai: Haute dame, come rose et lis

Work length6:32

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Cambrai: Kant je plus pens a commencier chanson

Work length3:15

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Cambrai: Loeir m'estuet la roine Marie

Work length5:00

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Cambrai: Meire, douce creature

Work length6:01

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Cambrai: O Dame, ke Deu portais

Work length3:58

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Cambrai: Retrowange novelle

Work length2:16

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Reins La Chievre: Jamais pour tant con l'ame el cors me bate

Work length3:12

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Reins La Chievre: Plaindre m'estuet de la bele en chantant

Work length5:59

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Reins La Chievre: L'autrier de jouste un rivage

Work length2:32

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Beguin de Cambrai: Loiaus desir et pensee jolie

Work length6:17

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Beguin de Cambrai: Boine aventure ait ma dame et bon jour

Work length3:51

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

Saint-Quentin: Rose ne flor, chant d'oiseaus ni verdure

Work length5:53

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

anon.: Chanter m'estuet de la virge Marie [RS 611a, Paris, France]

Work length5:15

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Graindelavoix
Bjorn Schmelzer
Recorded: July-August 2010
Recording Venue: Saint-Yved de Braine, France

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For the second instalment in their trilogy of recordings for Glossa devoted to performing 13th-century music through the prisms of religious, social and political discourses and with the working practices of cathedral builder Villard de Honnecourt at its centre, Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix demonstrate how music was reflecting the changing social environment of the times, notably through the new confraternities – the confréries – in Northern France.

As a cornerstone of his argument Schmelzer presents a seven-sectioned devotional cycle by the trouvère Jaikes de Cambrai, which the Belgian director likens to contemporary art installations and which he views as reflecting similar working practices discernible in Villard’s carnet (or portfolio). Schmelzer emphasizes the unity of Jaikes’s cycle when performed in a certain order, calling him ‘a dramaturge who connects words, emotional responses and music in a completely new way’.

Further medieval trouvère songs of almost equal modern-day anonymity for modern ears (including names such as Robert de Reins La Chièvre, Martin le Beguin de Cambrai and the Chanoine de Saint-Quentin) add to this depiction of Gothic art, suitably recorded in Braine in the Picardy region. This is a musical (and interpretative) territory which the singers and instrumentalists of Graindelavoix have made their own in recent years, delivering fragments of medieval music with new colours and fresh intuition.

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Christmas Issue 2013

I’ve anticipated this disc since being blown away by Volume 1 in 2012. Mesmerising immediacy and earthiness, worth the wait.

Early Music Review December 2013

The retrouange struck me as the song that I will remember, it is presumably modern… and is refreshingly short

Early Music Today December 2013

They achieve- par excellence- that elusive, essential impression of time travel, opening a window to admit a blast of unrefined medieval air… all pervasive, yet these earthy voices are invariably extraordinary in their technique, timbre and immersion in both style and text… I can hardly wait for volume three

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