MACHAUT- Messe de Notre Dame GRAINDELAVOIX

GUILLUAME DE MACHAUT - Graindelavoix
Messe de notre dame with SCORE (only Machaut´s messe)
Dir.Björn Schmelzer

voices: François Testory Paul De Troyer Marius Peterson Adrian Sîrbu Björn Schmelzer David Hernandez Tomàs Maxé Bart Meynckens Arnout Malfliet Jean-Christophe Brizard

01 Inviolata genitrix / Felix virgo / Ad te suspiramus gementes et flentes Motet by Guillaume de Machaut 00:00

02 Introitus: Salve sancta parens (plainchant) 04:42

03 KYRIE, Messe de Nostre Dame - Guillaume de Machaut 09:24

04 GLORIA, Messe de Nostre Dame 20:29

05 Graduale: Benedicta et venerabilis es virgo Maria
Anonymous (plainchant) 27:09

06 Alleluya: Post partum virgo Anonymous (plainchant) 33:00

07 Prosa: Verbum bonum et suave Anonymous (plainchant & version Codex Las Huelgas) 38:19

8 CREDO, Messe de Nostre Dame Guillaume de Machaut 42:36

09 Plange, regni respublica / Tu qui gregem tuum ducis / Apprehende arma et scutum et exurge Motet by Guillaume de Machaut 52:25

10 SANCTUS, Messe de Nostre Dame Guillaume de Machaut 55:35

11 AGNUS DEI, Messe de Nostre Dame Guillaume de Machaut
1:00:38

12 Communio: Beata viscera Anonymous (plainchant) & Perotinus (conductus) 1:04:30

13 ITE MISSA EST, Messe de Nostre Dame Guillaume de Machaut
1:12:01

Guillaume de Machaut
Messe de Nostre Dame

[Gnosticization]

Very Peaceful ...I can feel it has a very medieval monastic chant, wondering if De Machaut wanted the Masse to be chanted in this way! Well I am confused I heard Messe de Notre dame in many forms, and now Graindelavoix become one of my favorites.
Thanks for sharing the beautiful work of Guillaume de Machaut .

[luisortega]

I really disliked this version when I heard it a week ago, and now it has grown to be my absolute favourite. They are awesome!

[TheOktavismChannel]

Wonderful contra octave bass from Jean-Christophe Brizard. 58:55 and thereafter is a great example!

[yalex]

The final "Ite Missa Est" is simply stunning, both of the performers' and the composer's skills!

[Tagorehans]

excellent guys, excellent..at last one can listen to music of Machaut in this most beautiful interpretation...long live the middle-eastern 'warbling' because that is where all our European influences came off for Schmelzer....

[mateoguerrero]

Maravilloso. Obra e interpretación. Gracias.

[Airy]

Very interesting. First impression may be negative, sounds like organum influenced by free jazz. But after one gets used to the freedom, the cohesion of the whole starts to emerge. I do not like the tone of some upper voices, but they sound familiar, not far from corsica... So yes, definitely worth listening to carefully. And the sound engineer did a nice job.

[improgeneration]

I love Organum version.
I love Oxford version (less neutral and better tempo than Binchois version).
And yet what's more different ?
This version (definitely closer to Organum ^^) made me cry.

[CarlosGaMaMusica]

Es curioso, en el compás 12 el sol va a lab una coma o dos más bajas y baja haciendo una escala con claramente una segunda aumentada característica de la música arabica, persa, etc. Exactamente veo que utiliza sobretodo cuando está en la dominante. A diferencia de lo que veo en el otro con estilo bizantino que ornamenta muy seguido en trinos semitonales (o tambien algo más grandes) cuando reposan en incontables grados, aquí no deja de ser una ornamentación occidental pero con un rasgo intencionalmente microtonal aun que no siempre lo consigue pero que colorea en gran medida la composición.

[TheBartok]

Of course, we can discuss details of the performance - but just this is so wrong when concerned with music of the Middle Ages. What we know is that performances in those times were very very reflective of the means at disposal. The general APPROACH is great and rewarding as a listener taking part in the mass ceremony. I think this way of dealing with the music of the past - incorporating the natural potential of the performers and utilizing ornamentation techniques which embellish and add to the expressiveness - is what composers hope for and expect.

[martyheresniak]

I am a tad surprised by the nasal buzz in the voices. It is required in French and Portuguese, but certainly not in Latin. Is this a conscious choice by the singers/director?

[Lerbun]

Quelques sont les differences contre la"organum" version?

[jms]

De múltiples influences, parfois de belles couleurs d’ensemble ; à l’inverse aussi des choses pour la part rebutantes ou à la limite du comique : abus de glissando, voix très nasales. Trop inégal.une version d’après Machaut avec des choix parfois très contestables. Intéressant de voir comment les timbres si différenciés éclairent la polytextualité.dans le motet.

[tobiashaak]

Unfortunately the 16 foot bass-voice line reminds me of a bass fondamentale from rameaux, or a basso seguente of late 16. century pieces. It sounds a bit anachronistic and to much vertical for this linear type of Music.

[danyelnicholas]

It certainly says more about our time than Machaut’s which is regrettable.

[stanislasdelatousche]

La Toussaint passe mieux, ma foi, avec leur grain de folie sur G.

[miblish]

Strange how the harmony doesn't match the score.

[migueltorello]

pasarse de listos es un pecado estetico

[virilitas]

The problem here is the attempt to be hyper-authentic to a reconstructed idea of medieval music. Theory dominates musicality creating a sound that is paradoxically inauthentic.

[stephenhall]

The long-awaited Machaut from this ensemble. Except that decoration and unwarranted 'middle-eastern' warbling has taken over from scholarship and beauty. The tendency was growing in the last few CD releases but has now gone much too far.I am reminded of the crash bang wallop of early Munrow and Beckett.Sorry Mr Schmelzer but you have lost your way and Machaut doesn't get much of a look in. Worst of all the overall experience is ugly.Dr S Hall, Ireland