Motets: The Cambrai manuscript A 410

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the singing and playing is generally convincing and the performers are clearly well acquainted with this quirky repertoire. — Early Music Review, December 2014 More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: GCDP32109
Label: Glossa
Length: 43 minutes

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anon.: Aucuns vont souvent - Amor qui cor vulnerat - Kyrie eleison [Cambrai A410]

Work length4:18

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Pour le tens qui verdoie [Cambrai A410]

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anon.: J'ai mis toute ma pensee lonc tens - Je n'en puis mais - Puerorum [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: Par une matinee - Mellis stilla - Domino [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

Niet plus que droiz [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: O virgo pia - Lis ne glay - Amat [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: Dieus ou porrai je trouver merci - Che sont amouretes - Omnes [Cambrai A410]

Work length2:17

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: Descendendo dominus - Ascendendo dominus - Domino [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: O Maria virgo devitica - O Maria maris stella - Veritatem [Cambrai A410]

Work length4:39

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: J'ai mis toute ma pensee lonc tens - Je n'en puis mais - Puerorum [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: Ave lux luminum - Salve virgo rubens rosa - Neuma [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

Cil qui chantent de fleur [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: Plus bele que flor - Quant revient et fuelle et flor - L'autrier joer m'en alai - Flos filius eius [Cambrai A410]

Work length4:35

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Björn Schmelzer

anon.: Chorus innocentium - In Bethleem - In Bethleem [Cambrai A410]

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Björn Schmelzer

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With 'Motets', Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix conclude their innovative exploration of musical worlds comparable to that of the Northern French artist Villard de Honnecourt, the producer of a carnet (or portfolio) of drawings made in connection with the new Gothic cathedrals being built in the 13th century. Villard’s diagrams reflect a working activity carried out on the move and is echoed both in Graindelavoix’s choice of repertoire for Motets – the 13th-century motets appended, in haste, to a 12th-century manuscript found in Cambrai (close to Villard’s home village) – and in the restlessness of the Belgian ensemble’s performance style, ever in motion and striving to combine the different layers of the bilingual sacred and secular texts.

Graindelavoix’s director Björn Schmelzer contributes another of his striking, iconoclastic essays, presenting the development of the 13th-century motet in France in a radical new light: as a mirror to the Gothic fascination with automata, to the experience of moving around the new and vast cathedrals, as well as the secrecy which surrounds medieval memory and oral traditions. In concluding this special, ground-breaking trilogy of recordings for Glossa, Schmelzer underlines the importance of the work of Villard in our modern-day understanding of how music in the 13th century was constructed and perhaps performed. The same such ideas inform the vocal (and instrumental) textures and delivery offered by Graindelavoix.

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Early Music Review December 2014

the singing and playing is generally convincing and the performers are clearly well acquainted with this quirky repertoire.

24th February 2015

Graindelevox sing with excellent intonation and are perfectly as one with their voices often deliberately contrasted…this recording offers you a real chance to get inside these motets almost more than any other I have come across.

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