Ossuaires: Office for Elizabeth of Hungary by Pierre de Cambrai Villard de Honnecourt: Métier, memories and travels of a 13th-century cathedral builder, Vol. 1

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There are so many ways this disc is original. Start with the sound. I’ve never heard chant like this. It has a solidity that most plainsong lacks … Behind it is a panoply of ideas … I’m happy... — Early Music Review, December 2012 More…

Release Date: 5th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: GCDP32107
Label: Glossa
Length: 64 minutes

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Pierre de Cambrai: Office for Saint Elizabeth of Hungary [Cambrai Ms 38]

Work length56:25

$14.00

$18.00

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

Antifona I (Vesperae I): Gaudeat Hungaria

Track length3:56

$1.00

$1.30

Responsorium II (Nocturnus II): Sub Conrado Del viro

Track length11:18

$3.00

$3.85

Responsorium V (Nocturnus II): Ante Dies exitus

Track length15:18

$4.00

$5.15

Responsorium VI (Nocturnus II): Cul nec apex

Track length13:16

$3.00

$3.85

Responsorium IX (Nocturnus II): Tante signa glorie

Track length12:37

$3.00

$3.85

Pierre de Cambrai: Un chant renvoisie / Decantatur [Paris Bib. Nat. 3517-18]

Work length1:36

$1.00

$1.30

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

Volek syrolm thudothlon (Lamentations of Mary) [Hungary, 1300]

Work length6:10

$1.00

$1.30

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

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The first in a trilogy of recordings exploring religious, social and political discourses around 13th-century music sees Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix set off on a journey across Europe, reflecting on the medieval working world of the artist Villard de Honnecourt, who was responsible for a collection (still in existence) of drawings made in connection with the new Gothic cathedrals then being built. The travels of Villard took him from Cambrai to Vaucelles and Reims, and then across Germany, Switzerland and Hungary. In this first volume, 'Ossuaires' (ossuaries being receptacles for holy relics), the lines of this journey unite medieval Northern France and Hungary: musical treasures performed here concentrate on an Office for Saint Elizabeth by Pierre de Cambrai and Volek syrolm thudothlon (an example of an early Hungarian poem being set to music from France).

The characteristic and imaginative approach of Björn Schmelzer, along with his Graindelavoix singers, stands back from preconceived notions of how such medieval music may have been sung, and aligns itself instead more with the working practices of artists such as Villard de Honnecourt (examples of the draughtsman’s work are included in the CD booklet), medieval and modern artists embellishing and improvising, combining and recycling their materials from a practical perspective.

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Early Music Review December 2012

There are so many ways this disc is original. Start with the sound. I’ve never heard chant like this. It has a solidity that most plainsong lacks … Behind it is a panoply of ideas … I’m happy to listen to it with an innocent ear and enjoy a magnificent and original sound

Early Music Today

This highly accomplished and committed ensemble continues to brand itself by celebrating the very individual qualities of its voices. Their improvisation of discant and some sensitive, highly convincing, recycling of existing organa carve a fabulous tracery of sound and are in equal measure entertaining and provocative, opening up some interesting issues in respect of performance practice.

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