Carlo Gesualdo, Caligaverunt oculi mei (Tenebrae Responsoria), GRAINDELAVOIX @graindelavoixbootlegs5036

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS Recording session, august 2019, at Eglise Saint Jean l'Evangeliste, Beaufays (B) for the CD TENEBRAE, Glossamusic.

Graindelavoix directed by Bjørn Schmelzer
with Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Arnout Malfliet

Film and editing: Felipe Pipi
Sound Recording engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Bjørn Schmelzer

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Carlo Gesualdo, Caligaverunt oculi mei (Tenebrae Responsoria), GRAINDELAVOIX

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2020-04-21 | Recording session, august 2019, at Eglise Saint Jean l'Evangeliste, Beaufays (B) for the CD TENEBRAE, Glossamusic.

Graindelavoix directed by Bjørn Schmelzer
with Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Arnout Malfliet

Film and editing: Felipe Pipi
Sound Recording engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Bjørn Schmelzer

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CIPRIANO DE RORE - THE SHADOW OF DANTE (EP1) - by GRAINDELAVOIX , early madrigals

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2026-01-22 | With Florencia Menconi (soprano), André Pérez Muíño (tenor), Raphaël Joanne (tenor), Marius Peterson (tenor), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Floris De Rycker (lute, ceterone) and Björn Schmelzer (art. direction)
program info (in Dutch):
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Next concerts:
Gent:
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Liège:
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Graindelavoix is supported by the Flemish community and thanks Jan Leconte and the city of Ronse (Belgium) especially for their support of this project.

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FRANCISCO DE SANTIAGO (Tenebrae Responsoria) - Seniores populi live by GRAINDELAVOIX

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2026-01-22 | Listen to "Seniores populi" of the Tenebrae Responsoria by Francisco de Santiago, born in Lisbon, chapelmaster of Sevilla Cathedral and friend of Velázquez...
from the première at Utrecht Early Music Festival 2024

With: Teodora Tommasi (soprano and harp), Florencia Menconi (soprano), André Pérez Muíño (tenor), Albert Riera (tenor) , Gabriel Belkheiri (tenor) , Andrés Miravete (tenor), Tomás Maxé (bariton), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Floris De Rycker (theorbo) and Björn Schmelzer (art. direction)

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PIERRE DE LA RUE - Soubz ce tumbel (Epitaphe de lAmant Vert) live by GRAINDELAVOIX

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2026-01-18 | We know what happened to the parrot, but what happened to the dog?
This is a lamentation for the death of Margaret of Austria's favourite parrot (written by her favourite composer Pierre de la Rue) who died, left alone by his mistress, in an act of self-destruction (as the facts were interpreted by court poet Jean Lemaire des Belges in a series of poems dedicated to the event) by letting himself bite to death by one of Margaret's big mastiff dogs.

“One of the most notable early sixteenth-century pet elegies written in a court context is Jean Lemaire de Belges' "Les Épitres de I'Amant Vert", composed in 1505 and published in 1511. In these two French epistles in verse, the author adopts the voice of the recently deceased parrot of his protectress, the newly widowed Marguerite of Austria. In this epistle, Jean Lemaire de Belges attempts to comfort Marguerite, who had lost both her parrot and husband, by presenting the theme of the loss of a loved one and their state in heaven. In the first epistle the parrot Amant Vert is left alone by Marguerite, as she leaves the chateau of Pont d'Ain to meet her father in Strasbourg. The narrator/parrot then explains how, overcome by despair at his owner's abandonment, he is going to throw himself into the jaws of a dog (Marguerite's parrot was eaten by dog in 1505). He finds a mastiff, who waits for the bird to finish his poem. The epistle ends with an epitaph for Amant Vert. In "The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and its Antecedents", Annette Tomarken remarks that despite the use of a Petrarch love poem as a model, the work is not a parody but instead the author's sincere contribution for his patron. Marguerite was pleased by the epistle and suggested that the poet write another. In the second epistle, the parrot/narrator travels to paradise, guided by
Mercury. In paradise, the parrot is greeted by 'L'Esprit Vermeil', a parrot who had been the pet of Marguerite's mother, Mary of Burgundy (1457-1482). The parrot proceeds to describe his life in the Elysian Fields, which is populated with animals from history, literature, hagiography and myth. The inhabitants include Catullus's sparrow, the geese that raised the alarm when the Gauls attacked Rome, the she-wolf that suckled Romulus and Remus, the cockerel that alerted St Peter, St Anthony's pig, St Roch's dog and St Jerome's lion, among others. The epistle ends by assuring Marguerite that her pet, like all the departed, is happy in heaven. Both epistles present serious themes of
devotion, loss, and eventual contentment after death, in a light-hearted manner. Apart from Marguerite of Austria, other readers were similarly delighted. Anne of Brittany, Queen of France and ruling Duchess of Brittany, who would later become Lemaire's patron after he left Marguerite of Austria's service, adored the parrot epistle and made the effort to memorize it. The influence of Epitres de I'Amant Vert may also be seen in a portrait of another court lady: Marguerite d'Angouleme, sister of Francois I and Queen of Navarre (1492-1549). The artist Jean Clouet painted her portrait c. 1530, and depicted Marguerite d'Angouleme with a green parrot on her finger.”
Kathleen Fiona Walker-Meikle in: Late Medieval Pet Keeping: Gender, Status and Emotions, 2008

Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
with Teodora Tommasi (harp), Florencia Menconi (soprano), Andrew Hallock (alto), André Pérez Muiño (tenor), Albert Riera (tenor), Marius Peterson (tenor), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Floris De Rycker (lute)

recorded at the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, 1 september 2025 at the St. Catharinakathedraal

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GRAINDELAVOIX performs the first Lamentation by Carolus Luython in Utrecht

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2025-10-08 | Carolus Luython was born in the Antwerp Saint Andrew's Quarter in 1557 and died in Prague in 1620. His Lamentationes were printed in Prague in 1604.

Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
with Teodora Tommasi (soprano & harp), Florencia Menconi (soprano), Andrew Hallock (alto), André Pérez Muiño (tenor), Albert Riera (tenor), Marius Peterson (tenor), Tomàs Maxé (bariton), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Floris De Rycker (lute)

recorded at the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, 1 september 2025 at the St. Catharinakathedraal

GRAINDELAVOIX performs PROCH DOLOR, lament for seven voices by Pierre de la Rue in Utrecht

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2025-09-29 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
with Teodora Tommasi (soprano & harp), Florencia Menconi (soprano), Andrew Hallock (alto), André Pérez Muiño (tenor), Albert Riera (tenor), Marius Peterson (tenor), Tomàs Maxé (bariton), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Floris De Rycker (lute)

recorded at the Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht, 1 september 2025 at the St. Catharinakathedraal

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Graindelavoix live in Utrecht : Francisco de Santiago (Tenebrae Responsoria) - Eram quasi agnus

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2025-05-19 | Here are "Eram quasi agnus innocens" of the Tenebrae Responsoria by Francisco de Santiago, born in Lisbon, chapelmaster of Sevilla Cathedral and friend of Velázquez...
from the première at Utrecht Early Music Festival 2024

With: Teodora Tommasi (soprano and harp), Florencia Menconi (soprano), André Pérez Muíño (tenor), Albert Riera (tenor) , Gabriel Belkheiri (tenor) , Andrés Miravete (tenor), Tomás Maxé (bariton), Arnout Malfliet (bass), Floris De Rycker (theorbo) and Björn Schmelzer (art. direction)

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PRAETER RERUM SERIEM of Josquin Desprez performed by GRAINDELAVOIX - Björn Schmelzer

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-10-17 | from the new 2024 release EX NIHILO (Polyphony beyond the Order of Things)
with Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Gabriel Belkheiri, Marius Peterson, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet & Björn Schmelzer (artistic direction)

camera - Raul Domingues
sound - Alex Fostier
editing - Björn Schmelzer

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Recorded in Antwerp (Amuz - Augustinus Muziekcentrum), Belgium, on 11 June 2023
Engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer
Editing feedback and corrections: Arnout Malfliet
Produced by Graindelavoix
Executive producer: Carlos Céster, Glossa Music

Belgian Release Concert Tour in November 2024:
7 november in Gent
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8 november in Hasselt
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9 November in Grimbergen
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10 november in Roeselare
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VOX IN RAMA of Bernardino de Ribera performed by GRAINDELAVOIX - Björn Schmelzer

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-10-03 | from the new 2024 release EX NIHILO (Polyphony beyond the Order of Things)
with Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Gabriel Belkheiri, Marius Peterson, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet & Björn Schmelzer (artistic direction)

camera - Raul Domingues
sound - Alex Fostier
editing - Björn Schmelzer

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Recorded in Antwerp (Amuz - Augustinus Muziekcentrum), Belgium, on 11 June 2023
Engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer
Editing feedback and corrections: Arnout Malfliet
Produced by Graindelavoix
Executive producer: Carlos Céster, Glossa Music

Belgian Release Concert Tour in November 2024:
7 november in Gent
bijloke.be/nl/programma/3362/graindelavoix-bjorn-schmelzer/ex-nihilo
8 november in Hasselt
ccha.be/programma/5165/graindelavoix/ex-nihilo-polyfonie-van-het-onmogelijke
9 November in Grimbergen
ccstrombeek.be/podium/ex-nihilo
10 november in Roeselare
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Rehearsing Media vita in morte sumus by Nicolas Gombert

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-08-12 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
Sung by Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson,Tomàs Maxé and Arnout Malfliet
Recorded during rehearsal at St.Ursulakirche on 23.05.2024
Thanks to the Zamus Festival (https://www.zamus.de/kalender/media-v...)

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Rehearsing the Agnus Dei of Missa Media vita by Nicolas Gombert

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-08-12 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
Sung by Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson,Tomàs Maxé and Arnout Malfliet
Recorded during rehearsal at St.Ursulakirche on 23.05.2024
Thanks to the Zamus Festival (https://www.zamus.de/kalender/media-vita-in-morte-sumus/)

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Rehearsing Media vita in morte sumus by Orlando di Lasso

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-08-11 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
Sung by Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson,Tomàs Maxé and Arnout Malfliet
Recorded during rehearsal at St.Ursulakirche on 23.05.2024
Thanks to the Zamus Festival (https://www.zamus.de/kalender/media-vita-in-morte-sumus/)

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Graindelavoix sings Absalon fili mi by Lodovico Agostini, live in Potsdam

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-08-11 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
Sung by Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Gabriel Belkheiri, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson,Tomàs Maxé and Arnout Malfliet
Recorded live in Potsdam on 13.06.2023
Photos (c) Frank Emmers
Many thanks to Jorge Martín Valle (arsubtilioreditions.com) for his great transcriptions!

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Graindelavoix sings Then David mourned by Thomas Tomkins, live in Potsdam

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-08-11 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
Sung by Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Gabriel Belkheiri, Tomàs Maxé and Arnout Malfliet
Recorded live in Potsdam on 13.06.2023
Photos (c) KREW Collective

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NACHLEBEN EPISODE 1 Shit Stuck to the Floor Nicholas of Cusa and Polyphony (GDLV live in Deventer)

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-04-15 | transcript:
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Bibliography:
- English Cusanus translations by Jasper Hopkins (slightly modified) :
jasper-hopkins.info
- Inigo Bocken:
De kunst van het verzamelen. Historisch-ethische inleiding in de conjecturele hermeneutiek van Nicolaus Cusanus, Damon, Eindhoven, 2004
De leek over de geest, Damon, Eindhoven, 2001
Het zien van God, Kapellen, 1993
Doxological (Im)Purity? Nicholas of Cusa’s ‘Art of Praising’ and Liturgical Thinking in 21st Century. Religions; 2022; Vol. 13; iss. 8
- Michel de Certeau:
The Mystic Fable, volume 2, University of Chicago press, 2015.
Mysticism, in, Diacritics, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer, 1992), pp. 11-25
- Rob Wegman:
The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1530, Routledge, 2005
“Musical understanding” in the 15th century, in, Early music vol. 30 (2002) pp. 46-66
Cusanus and music:
- Kathi Meyer-Baer, Nicholas of Cusa on the Meaning of Music, in The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Vol. 5, No. 4, June, 1947, pp. 301-308
Heinrich Hüschen , Nikolaus von Kues und sein Musikdenken (1971), in Symbolae Historiae Musicae, Hellmut Federhofer zum 60. Geburtstag, Mainz, 1971, pp. 47-67
- Franz-Bernhard Stammkötter, Nikolaus von Kues über Musik, in Intellectus und Imaginatio. Aspekte geistiger und sinnlicher Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus, ed. by João Maria André, Gerhard Krieger and Harald Schwaetzer, Amsterdam 2006, pp. 143-149
- Werner Schulze Werner, Zahl, Proportion, Analogie: eine Untersuchung zur Metaphysik und Wissenschaftshaltung des Nikolaus von Kues, Münster 1978
- Werner Schulze, Harmonik und Theologie bei Nikolaus Cusanus, Wien 1983
- Werner Schulze, Musik und Harmonik bei Nikolaus von Kues. Zur Theorie der Musik zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit, in Harmonik & Glasperlenspiel. Beiträge `93. München 1994
- Predrag Bukovec, Musik bei Nicolaus Cusanus. In Cusanus. Ästhetik und Theologie, ed. by Michael Eckert and Harald Schwaetzer, Münster 2013, pp. 83–101 (Texte und Studien zur europäischen Geistesgeschichte; B,5)
- Johannes Leopold Mayer, Die Musik als „ancilla philosophiae“ – Überlegungen zu Ludwig Wittgenstein und Nikolaus Cusanus, 2008
- Peter Pesic, Hearing the Irrational: Music and the Development of the Modern Concept of Number
In, Isis, Vol. 101, No. 3 (September 2010), pp. 501-530
- Oscar João Abdounur, Ratios and music in the late Middle Ages: a preliminary survey, 2001
- Oscar João Abdounur, The Emergence of the Idea of Irrationality In Renaissance Theoretical Music Contexts, in Mathematical Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences Vol. 3, No. 2, March 2015 pp. 155–17
- David P. Goldman, The Divine Music of Mathematics, in firstthings.com/article/2012/04/the-divine-music-of-mathematics
- Manfred Bukofzer, Caput: A Liturgico-Musical Study, in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, New York, 1950.
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- Therese Bruggisser-Lanker, Dulcis harmonica concordantia – Nicolaus Cusanus’ Konkordanzbegriff und die Emanzipation der europäischen Kunstmusik. In Music and Culture in the Age oft he Council of Basel ed. by Matteo Nanni, Turnhout 2014, pp. 31-49.
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- Lawrence F. Bernstein, Ockeghem the mystic: a German interpretation of the 1920s, in Johannes Ockeghem: actes du XLe colloque international d’études humanistes, Tours, 3-8 février 1997 ed. By Philippe Vendrix, Paris, 1998
- Lawrence F. Bernstein, Jean d’Ockeghem, in The Cambridge History of Fifteenth Century Music, ed. by Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin, Cambridge (2015) , pp. 105-118
- Lawrence F. Bernstein The modern reception of the music of Jean d’Ockeghem in The Cambridge History of Fifteenth Century Music, ed. by Anna Maria Busse Berger and Jesse Rodin, Cambridge (2015) ,pp. 811-822
- Adam Knight Gilbert, Concealment Revealed Sound and Symbol in Ockeghem’s Missi Quinti toni and Missa Prolationum, in Explorations in Music and Esotericism, ed. by Marjorie Roth and Leonard George, 2023, pp 101-124
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Vincenzo Borghetti, Johannes Ockeghem, figure mystique?, in Musique, théologie et sacré, d’Oresme à Érasme, ed. by Annie Cœrdevey and Philippe Vendrix, Ambronay, Center Culturel de Rencontres 2008, pp. 149-184
- Wojciech Odoj, Johannes Ockeghem – a Mystic?, in Studia z Dziejów Średniowiecza, t. 24, 2020

Graindelavoix sings Absalon fili mi by Josquin Desprez (or Pierre de la Rue?), live in Potsdam

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-02-29 | Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
Sung by Andrew Hallock, Marius Peterson, Tomàs Maxé and Arnout Malfliet
Recorded live in Potsdam on 13.06.2023
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Previously unreleased: Graindelavoix sings Josquin Desprez Douleur me bat

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-02-13 | GRAINDELAVOIX/Björn Schmelzer
with Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, Lukas Henning (lute) and Philippe Malfeyt (cittern)

camera- Felipe Pipi
sound - Alex Fostier
editing - Margarida Garcia/Björn Schmelzer

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JOSQUIN THE UNDEAD : LAMENTS, DEPLORATIONS AND DANCES OF DEATH
Works by Josquin des Prez (and Gombert, Vinders, Appenzeller) included in Tielman Susato's Septiesme Livre (Antwerp 1545)

Recorded in Banna (Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte), Poirino, Italy, on 7 June 2021
Engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer
Editing feedback and corrections: Arnout Malfliet
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Graindelavoix sings Agnus Dei by Gilles Binchois

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-02-05 | With Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet & Björn Schmelzer

Fragment from the movie "Van Eyck Diagrams" (2021)
Written, directed and edited by Björn Schmelzer
Margarida Garcia, Co-Director
With Alain Franco, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Marlies De Munck, Bert Timmermans, Timothy Foubert, Paul Robbrecht, Babucarr Joof, Jana De Lange, Lisa Roelands, Sophie Hellemans, Peter Malfliet, Dauwe Bogaerts, Cas Ezzy, Sasha Lima, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Margarida Garcia & Björn Schmelzer
Felipe Pipi, Director of Photography
Olivier Blanc, Anton Vodenitcharov & Alex Fostier, Sound
Soundtrack by Graindelavoix
Willem Van Vooren & Katrijn Degans, Production

In coproduction with Music Centre De Bijloke Ghent and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen with the support of the City of Ghent and Flemish Community.

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Unboxing Antoine Brumel Earthquake Mass, new CD release February 2024

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-01-31 | Check out our new release for the Glossa Label and (pre-)order here:
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ANTOINE BRUMEL - EARTHQUAKE MASS
Björn Schmelzer, direction
Manuel Mota, electric guitar
with Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, voices
&
Berlinde Deman, Lluís Coll i Trulls, Pierre-Antoine Tremblay, Christopher Price, wind instruments

1. Il Culto delle Pietre
2. KYRIE
3. GLORIA
4. Kleist
5. CREDO
6. On the Natural History of Destruction
7. SANCTUS
8.BENEDICTUS
9. The Parasite
10. AGNUS DEI

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Graindelavoix sings Flos florum by Guillaume Du Fay

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-01-25 | With Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet & Björn Schmelzer

Fragment from the movie "Van Eyck Diagrams" (2021)
Written, directed and edited by Björn Schmelzer
Margarida Garcia, Co-Director
With Alain Franco, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Marlies De Munck, Bert Timmermans, Timothy Foubert, Paul Robbrecht, Babucarr Joof, Jana De Lange, Lisa Roelands, Sophie Hellemans, Peter Malfliet, Dauwe Bogaerts, Cas Ezzy, Sasha Lima, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Margarida Garcia & Björn Schmelzer
Felipe Pipi, Director of Photography
Olivier Blanc, Anton Vodenitcharov & Alex Fostier, Sound
Soundtrack by Graindelavoix
Willem Van Vooren & Katrijn Degans, Production

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Graindelavoix performs live in Tallinn Alma redemptoris mater by Johannes Ockeghem

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2024-01-15 | With Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet & Björn Schmelzer

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ROLLING STONE - Antoine Brumels Earthquake Mass in Times of Disaster - Tour 2023

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2023-03-14 | What can art and music mean in times of disaster and crisis?
Graindelavoix consulted Pieter Bruegel (1569), who began painting grisaille (stone-colored) works in the 1560s in response to political disasters and iconoclasm, and the French composer Antoine Brumel (+1512), whose 12-part Earthquake Mass was rediscovered by Orlandus Lassus in the same period. For these artists, 'resurrection' is not an uprising, revolt or revolution, but a petrifying confrontation with the rumble of a colossal tombstone, with stone dust, rubble and a black hole. On the ruins of past and present, Graindelavoix recreates Brumel's composition, anticipated by images from the short neorealist documentary “Il Culto delle Pietre” (1967) by Luigi di Gianni, an allegory of a modern world marked by inertia and superstition. Add to the color and grit of the voices the deliberate anachronism of four wind instruments (cornetto, horns, serpent), together with the interventions of legendary Portuguese avant-garde guitarist Manuel Mota, and you get an idea of Graindelavoix’s atlas of disasters.

Graindelavoix / Björn Schmelzer, artistic direction
Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, soprano
Andrew Hallock, alto
Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, tenor
Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, bass
Lluis Coll i Trulls, cornetto
Berlinde Deman, serpent
Pierre-Antoine Tremblay, horn
Christopher Price, horn
Manuel Mota, electric guitar

artistic concept: Björn Schmelzer
sound concept, arrangements and compositions: Manuel Mota
(in collaboration with Tremblay, Coll i Trulls, Price and Deman)
live sound engineering : Alex Fostier
light design: Fostier, Garcia & Schmelzer
external ear & artistic advice: Margarida Garcia
production: Katrijn Degans

coproduction with Klarafestival Brussels, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent & Kunstfestspiele Herrenhausen

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Monsters of Early Music - Graindelavoix sings Science na nul annemi by Matheus de Sancto Johanne

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2023-02-19 | Live performance in February 2020
Graindelavoix directed by Björn Schmelzer
singers: Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson and Arnout Malfliet
captured in images during rehearsal and concert by Koen Broos
recording by Joan Melero Lozano

Festival Llums d'antiga, Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi:
excerpt of the program notes:
"In the early 19th century, composer and music critic E.T.A. Hoffmann talked about how Beethoven’s music opens to us “the realm of the monstrous and immeasurable”. To describe more clearly how the German composer changed the way music was written, and to define this “monstrosity”, Hoffmann compared it with the works of visual artists of the late 15th century to the early 17th century, such as Bosch, Bruegel and Callot.
Hoffman believed that composers of the same period were not comparable, since the music of that time was austere and balanced, in total contrast to the works of the aforementioned artists, and also to that of Beethoven. Graindelavoix throws this idea into question in a radical and resounding way with their performance of music by composers such as Guillaume de Machaut, Solage, Alexander Agricola, Antoine Brumel, Nicolas Gombert, Cipriano De Rore, Carlo Gesualdo and others. All belong to a whole host of monsters of musical art from between the late Middle Ages and the birth of Renaissance polyphony, who would have impressed the audiences of the 19th century and who will, no doubt, also impress the audiences of today...."

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NYMPHES DES BOIS of Josquin Desprez, performed by GRAINDELAVOIX - Björn Schmelzer

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2022-08-27 | GRAINDELAVOIX/Björn Schmelzer
with Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, Lukas Henning (lute) and Philippe Malfeyt (cittern)

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editing - Margarida Garcia/Björn Schmelzer

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JOSQUIN THE UNDEAD : LAMENTS, DEPLORATIONS AND DANCES OF DEATH
Works by Josquin des Prez (and Gombert, Vinders, Appenzeller) included in Tielman Susato's Septiesme Livre (Antwerp 1545)

Recorded in Banna (Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte), Poirino, Italy, on 8 June 2021
Engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer
Editing feedback and corrections: Arnout Malfliet
Produced by Graindelavoix
Executive producer: Carlos Céster, Glossa Music

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EPITAPHS OF AFTERWARDSNESS Jan Michiels & Graindelavoix - Machaut Bach Ligeti Kurtag

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2022-04-26 | EPITAPHS OF AFTERWARDSNESS
Machaut - Bach - Kurtag - Ligeti
Jan Michiels & Graindelavoix - Björn Schmelzer

"Music dies at birth", Leonardo da Vinci mused, trying to demonstrate its inferiority to the eternal existence of visual works of art. Music has always been decomposition, sounding decomposition. This program is an attempt to create a dialectical resonance between two composers miles apart: Guillaume de Machaut and György Kurtág. Rather than restoring Machaut to its so-called originality, our performance explores the subjectivity of the work itself by alternating and confronting it with works by Kurtág, one of today's most important composers. What happens to a 14th-century composition of Machaut's caliber when it is set amid a few other carefully selected musical epitaphs, from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries? What is the role of the Nachleben, or afterlife? And how do the performers change their own commitment and investment in resonance with the other works? What does it mean for the listener if musical works are primarily epitaphs of their own demise? And how can this incessant “perishing” be inscribed in the performance itself, and preserved as a listening experience?

Muziek sterft bij geboorte, mijmerde Leonardo da Vinci, waarmee hij haar minderwaardigheid probeerde aan te tonen tegenover het eeuwige bestaan van een visueel kunstwerk. Muziek is altijd al ontbinding, klinkende ontbinding. Dit programma is een poging een dialectische resonantie tot stand te brengen tussen twee mijlenver van elkaar verwijderde componisten: Guillaume de Machaut en György Kurtág. In plaats van Machaut in zijn zogenaamde oorspronkelijkheid te herstellen onderzoekt onze uitvoering de subjectiviteit van het werk zelf door het te alterneren en te confronteren met werken van Kurtág, een van de belangrijkste componisten van nu. Wat gebeurt er met een 14de eeuwse compositie van het kaliber van Machaut als ze wordt opgesteld te midden van enkele andere, minutieus geselecteerde muzikale epitaven, uit de 18de, 19de en 20ste eeuw? Wat is de rol van het Nachleben, of afterlife? En hoe verandert de uitvoerders hun eigen geëngageerdheid en investering in resonantie met de andere werken? Wat betekent het voor de luisteraar als muzikale werken op de eerste plaats epitaven zijn van hun eigen ondergang? En hoe kan dit onophoudelijk “ten onder gaan” ingeschreven worden in de uitvoering zelf, en behouden blijven als luisterervaring?

Florencia Menconi, soprano
Andrew Hallock, countertenor
Albert Riera, tenor
Andrés Miravete, tenor
Tomàs Maxé, bariton
Arnout Malfliet, bass
Björn Schmelzer, artistic direction

Jan Michiels, grand piano/upright piano

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Björn Schmelzers guiding tour in Time Regained: gothic, non-finito, ruin

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2022-03-21 | Op Zaterdag 26/03 en Zondag 27/03 gidst Björn Schmelzer je doorheen het beeldenmateriaal van Time Regained, een expo in samenwerking met Margarida Garcia en Graindelavoix.
Ontdek het hele verhaal tijdens een rondleiding van ongeveer een uur. Deelname is gratis mits reservatie.

rondleidingen om 11u & 14u op za 26 en zo 27 maart 2022 met Björn Schmelzer

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Time Regained Exhibition in Muziekcentrum De Bijloke - Guided Tours on 26 & 27 March 2022

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2022-03-18 | Op Zaterdag 26/03 en Zondag 27/03 gidst Björn Schmelzer je doorheen het beeldenmateriaal van Time Regained, een expo in samenwerking met Margarida Garcia en Graindelavoix.
Ontdek het hele verhaal tijdens een rondleiding van ongeveer een uur. Deelname is gratis mits reservatie.

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Skeleton Dance finally reconstructed with Petite Camusette by Josquin Desprez! (GRAINDELAVOIX)

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2022-02-09 | Image: The Skeleton Dance (fragment), part of Silly Symphony (1929 animation film directed by Walt Disney, animated by Ub Iwerks.)

Music: Petite Camusette by Josquin Desprez, performed by GRAINDELAVOIX, directed by Björn Schmelzer
with Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, Lukas Henning (lute) and Philippe Malfeyt (cittern)

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JOSQUIN THE UNDEAD : LAMENTS, DEPLORATIONS AND DANCES OF DEATH
Works by Josquin des Prez (and Gombert, Vinders, Appenzeller) included in Tielman Susato's Septiesme Livre (Antwerp 1545)

Recorded in Banna (Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte), Poirino, Italy, on 8 June 2021
Engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer
Editing feedback and corrections: Arnout Malfliet
Produced by Graindelavoix
Executive producer: Carlos Céster, Glossa Music

"Petite Camusette is a real Totentanz or danse macabre, reminiscent of the familiar topos of the lov- ing couple stalked by the figure of death (to nod to Albrecht Dürer’s engraving). The chanson evokes Robin and Marion, walking in the woods hand in hand and falling asleep, with Camusette or Camuse
the personification of death, to whom the narrator exclaims, “A la mort m’avez mis” (“You have brought me to death”). Josquin emphasises the chanson’s dance aspect by writing triple metre figures in some parts, which we have enlarged here through instrumental accompaniment. The two middle voices are integrally canonical, while the two top voices and two bass voices engage in simulated canons.The song is a whirlpool of canons and semi-canons, floating
between popular tradition and more detached sophistication."

Petite Camusette,
À la mort m’avez mis.
Robin et Marion
S’en vont au bois ioly,
Ilz s’en vont bras à bras,
Ilz se sont endormis.
Petite Camusette,
À la mort m’avez mis.

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Trailer2 VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS, The Legacy of Gerard Van den Acker, Art Historian (a Graindelavoix Film)

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2021-10-24 | Antwerp Screening on 24 November 2021 in De Cinema/De Studio/MUHKA Cinema

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VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS
The Legacy of Gerard Van den Acker, Art Historian
(2021)

Naar aanleiding van het Van Eyckjaar creëerden Björn Schmelzer en Graindelavoix een voorstelling met polyfonie als eresaluut aan het leven en werk van hun trouwe vriend Gerard Van den Acker, wiens vroegtijdige dood abrupt een einde maakte aan een beloftevol en opzienbarend Van Eyck-onderzoek.
VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS kreeg door de coronacrisis een nieuwe adem als langspeelfilm, niet alleen als hommage aan het universum van Van Eyck en als hulde aan zijn visionaire interpreet, maar ook als evocatie van de strijd die kunstenaars moeten leveren om gehoord, gezien en begrepen te worden.
Polyfonieportret, kunsthistorische documentaire, filosofische film noir of gewoon Vlaamse Covid comedy? VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS is dat allemaal en veel meer.

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On the occasion of the Van Eyck year, Björn Schmelzer and ensemble Graindelavoix created a performance with polyphony as a salute to the life and work of their faithful friend Gerard Van den Acker, whose untimely death abruptly ended a promising and sensational Van Eyck research.
As a result of the current situation VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS was given new impulse as a feature film. It is not just a tribute to Van Eyck's universe and to his visionary interpreter, but also an evocation of the artist’s struggle to be heard, seen and understood.
Polyphony portrait, art historical documentary, philosophical film noir or just Flemish Covid comedy? VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS is all that and much more.

Written, directed and edited by Björn Schmelzer
Margarida Garcia, Co-Director
With Alain Franco, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Marlies De Munck, Bert Timmermans, Timothy Foubert, Paul Robbrecht, Babucarr Joof, Jana De Lange, Lisa Roelands, Sophie Hellemans, Peter Malfliet, Dauwe Bogaerts, Cas Ezzy, Sasha Lima, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Margarida Garcia & Björn Schmelzer
Felipe Pipi, Director of Photography
Olivier Blanc, Anton Vodenitcharov & Alex Fostier, Sound
Soundtrack by Graindelavoix
Willem Van Vooren & Katrijn Degans, Production

In coproduction with Music Centre De Bijloke Ghent and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen with the support of the City of Ghent and Flemish Community.

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Trailer1 VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS (Graindelavoix 2021) screened in Antwerp, DE CINEMA on 24 November 2021

VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS TEASER SCREENING 24 NOV 2021 DE STUDIO ANTWERPEN

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VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS
The Legacy of Gerard Van den Acker, Art Historian
(2021)

Naar aanleiding van het Van Eyckjaar creëerden Björn Schmelzer en Graindelavoix een voorstelling met polyfonie als eresaluut aan het leven en werk van hun trouwe vriend Gerard Van den Acker, wiens vroegtijdige dood abrupt een einde maakte aan een beloftevol en opzienbarend Van Eyck-onderzoek.
VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS kreeg door de coronacrisis een nieuwe adem als langspeelfilm, niet alleen als hommage aan het universum van Van Eyck en als hulde aan zijn visionaire interpreet, maar ook als evocatie van de strijd die kunstenaars moeten leveren om gehoord, gezien en begrepen te worden.
Polyfonieportret, kunsthistorische documentaire, filosofische film noir of gewoon Vlaamse Covid comedy? VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS is dat allemaal en veel meer.

- - -

On the occasion of the Van Eyck year, Björn Schmelzer and ensemble Graindelavoix created a performance with polyphony as a salute to the life and work of their faithful friend Gerard Van den Acker, whose untimely death abruptly ended a promising and sensational Van Eyck research.
As a result of the current situation VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS was given new impulse as a feature film. It is not just a tribute to Van Eyck's universe and to his visionary interpreter, but also an evocation of the artist’s struggle to be heard, seen and understood.
Polyphony portrait, art historical documentary, philosophical film noir or just Flemish Covid comedy? VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS is all that and much more.

Written, directed and edited by Björn Schmelzer
Margarida Garcia, Co-Director
With Alain Franco, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Marlies De Munck, Bert Timmermans, Timothy Foubert, Paul Robbrecht, Babucarr Joof, Jana De Lange, Lisa Roelands, Sophie Hellemans, Peter Malfliet, Dauwe Bogaerts, Cas Ezzy, Sasha Lima, Manuel Mota, David Maranha, Margarida Garcia & Björn Schmelzer
Felipe Pipi, Director of Photography
Olivier Blanc, Anton Vodenitcharov & Alex Fostier, Sound
Soundtrack by Graindelavoix
Willem Van Vooren & Katrijn Degans, Production

In coproduction with Music Centre De Bijloke Ghent and KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen with the support of the City of Ghent and Flemish Community.

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Graindelavoix performs Nimphes, Nappes by Josquin des Prez

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2021-09-20 | GRAINDELAVOIX/Björn Schmelzer
with Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, Lukas Henning (lute) and Philippe Malfeyt (cittern)

camera- Felipe Pipi
sound - Alex Fostier
editing - Björn Schmelzer

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JOSQUIN THE UNDEAD : LAMENTS, DEPLORATIONS AND DANCES OF DEATH
Works by Josquin des Prez (and Gombert, Vinders, Appenzeller) included in Tielman Susato's Septiesme Livre (Antwerp 1545)

Recorded in Banna (Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte), Poirino, Italy, on 8 June 2021
Engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer
Editing feedback and corrections: Arnout Malfliet
Produced by Graindelavoix
Executive producer: Carlos Céster, Glossa Music

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Graindelavoix performs Musae Jovis, epitaph for Josquin des Prez, by Nicolas Gombert

Unboxing Graindelavoix s JOSQUIN THE UNDEAD, new CD release 1 october 2021

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JOSQUIN THE UNDEAD : LAMENTS, DEPLORATIONS AND DANCES OF DEATH
Works by Josquin des Prez (and Gombert, Vinders, Appenzeller) included in Tielman Susato's Septiesme Livre (Antwerp 1545)

Graindelavoix, directed by Björn Schmelzer
with Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet, Lukas Henning (lute), Philippe Malfeyt (cittern)

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Miserere mei Deus (Philippe De Monte) by Graindelavoix - In memoriam Jean-Luc Nancy

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2021-08-24 | extract from the Concert Film:

FORGETTING DE MONTE
THE FAILURES, OBSTACLES AND MISERIES OF THE LAST OF THE POLYPHONISTS

GRAINDELAVOIX
Björn Schmelzer, Artistic Direction

With Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Razek François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Lukas Henning (arciliuto), Philippe Malfeyt (ceterone)
Felipe Pipi: Videography and Editing
Alex Fostier: Music Recording, Mix and Postproduction
In coproduction with Lunalia Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen and Music Centre De Bijloke Ghent, and supported by the Flemish Community.

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Graindelavoix performs Philippe de Monte - Crudel, aspro dolore - madrigal for eight voices

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2021-08-21 | extract from the Concert Film:

FORGETTING DE MONTE
THE FAILURES, OBSTACLES AND MISERIES OF THE LAST OF THE POLYPHONISTS

GRAINDELAVOIX
Björn Schmelzer, Artistic Direction

With Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Razek François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Lukas Henning (arciliuto), Philippe Malfeyt (ceterone)
Felipe Pipi: Videography and Editing
Alex Fostier: Music Recording, Mix and Postproduction
In coproduction with Lunalia Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen and Music Centre De Bijloke Ghent, and supported by the Flemish Community.

GRAINDELAVOIX
Björn Schmelzer, Artistieke Leiding

Met Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Razek François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Lukas Henning (arciliuto), Philippe Malfeyt (ceterone)
Felipe Pipi: Videografie en Montage
Alex Fostier: Muziekopname, Mix and Postproductie
In coproductie met Lunalia Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen en Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, ondersteund door de Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

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FORGETTING DE MONTE / DE MONTE VERGETEN Trailer Concert Film GRAINDELAVOIX

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2021-08-16 | FORGETTING DE MONTE
The Failures, Obstacles and Miseries of the Last of the Polyphonists

Tune in for the full concert film on our Vimeo channel (vimeo.com/587431663)

exclusively for LUNALIA FESTIVAL Mechelen on
Friday, 20 August 2021 and
Saturday, 21 August 2021
8pm-10pm

Exclusieve screening voor LUNALIA FESTIVAL Mechelen op
Vrijdag, 20 augustus 2021 en
Zaterdag, 21 augustus 2021
20u-22u

GRAINDELAVOIX
Björn Schmelzer, Artistic Direction

With Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Razek François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Lukas Henning (arciliuto), Philippe Malfeyt (ceterone)
Felipe Pipi: Videography and Editing
Alex Fostier: Music Recording, Mix and Postproduction
In coproduction with Lunalia Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen and Music Centre De Bijloke Ghent

GRAINDELAVOIX
Björn Schmelzer, Artistieke Leiding

Met Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Razek François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Lluís Coll i Trulls (cornetto), Lukas Henning (arciliuto), Philippe Malfeyt (ceterone)
Felipe Pipi: Videografie en Montage
Alex Fostier: Muziekopname, Mix and Postproductie
In coproductie met Lunalia Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen en Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent

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GRAINDELAVOIX presents: VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2021-02-19 | Björn Schmelzer & graindelavoix behind the scenes of VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS
A music-theatre performance featuring artist Jan Van Eyck through the legacy of art historian, Gerard Van den Acker

music by Solage, Matteo de Perugia, Jacques de Senleches, Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Du Fay and Lee Patterson;
original libretto based on Gerard Van den Acker's notebooks.

performed with Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Margarida Garcia, Lee Patterson and Björn Schmelzer.
Concept, scenography and artistic direction: Björn Schmelzer
Dramaturgy: Margarida Garcia
Theatrical supervision: Marius Peterson
Live electronics: Lee Patterson
Light: Caspar Langhoff
Sound: Alex Fostier
Image: Bert Timmermans and Margarida Garcia
Production: Willem Van Vooren and Katrijn Degans

Dates:
19 May 2021 | 8 pm | KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (premiere)
21 May 2021 | 8.15 pm | Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ Amsterdam
8 June 2021 | 8 pm | Bijloke Ghent

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DARK VAN EYCK WEBSITE LAUNCH 21 october 2020 De Bijloke Gent

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2020-10-23 | Here is the live streamed video of the launching of www.DARK VAN EYCK.com
The Legacy of Gerard Van Den Acker, Art Historian

A project by Björn Schmelzer, Margarida Garcia and the graindelavoix crew.
Schmelzer introduces this new view on the painter Jan van Eyck and his work.

Speakers: Andrew Hallock, Tim Foubert, Joanna Gomes and Björn Schmelzer
host: Tom Janssens
21 october 2020 Kraakhuis De Bijloke, Gent (Belgium)

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Carlo Gesualdo, Plange Quasi Virgo (Tenebrae Responsoria), GRAINDELAVOIX

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2020-04-09 | Recording session, august 2019, at Eglise Saint Jean l'Evangeliste, Beaufays (B) for the CD TENEBRAE, Glossamusic.

Graindelavoix directed by Bjørn Schmelzer
with Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Arnout Malfliet

Film and editing: Felipe Pipi
Sound Recording engineered by Alexandre Fostier
Recording supervised by Eugénie De Mey
Editing: Alexandre Fostier and Björn Schmelzer

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Graindelavoix performs Qui prophetice prompsisti by the amazing Ludwig Senfl

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2018-12-05 | Première recording (live concert version) of this work by one of the most fabulous, but underrated polyphonists, Ludwig Senfl (Basel 1486- Munich 1543)

Léon Berben plays the voix-humaine-register with beautiful tremolo of the Jacques renaissance organ in Kapellekerk Brussels. The organ version of pars III of Senfl's motet derives from the tablatures of Jan de Lublin.

The singers of graindelavoix on this performance are: Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson & Arnout Malfliet, directed by Björn Schmelzer.

Thanks to Arnaud Van de Cauter and Voce et Organo Festival for the concert invitation...

And to Sonia Wronkowska and Łukasz Kozak inviting graindelavoix for performing polyphonists from Polish sources!

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OUTLANDISH TRAILER 2 CINE-CONCERT GRAINDELAVOIX 6-7 july 2018

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2018-06-15 | Where? Carolus Borromeuskerk, Antwerpen

When? 6 & 7 july 2018, 22h30

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OUTLANDISH a film by Björn Schmelzer, Margarida Garcia, Koen Broos, Nuno Henriques, Alex Fostier, Bram Leys, Willem Van Vooren and Katrijn Degans

with Manuel Mota, Marius Peterson, Timothy Foubert, Bert Timmermans, Bregje Vivier

Live performance by Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek François Bitar, Tomàs Maxé, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Björn Schmelzer (dir.)

Live sound, light and image technique: Alexandre Fostier, Koen Broos and Peter Quasters Music by Damião de Góis, Thomas Ashewell and John Browne

in collaboration with Les rencontres Inattendues Doornik, Stad Doornik, Hospital of Undersized Gestures Lisbon and with the support of the Flemish Community and Stad Antwerpen

OUTLANDISH TRAILER CINE-CONCERT GRAINDELAVOIX 6-7 july 2018

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2018-06-14 | Where? Carolus Borromeuskerk, Antwerpen
When? 6 & 7 july 2018, 22h30

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OUTLANDISH a film by Björn Schmelzer, Margarida Garcia, Koen Broos, Nuno Henriques, Alex Fostier, Bram Leys, Willem Van Vooren and Katrijn Degans

with Manuel Mota, Marius Peterson, Timothy Foubert, Bert Timmermans, Bregje Vivier

Live performance by Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek François Bitar, Tomàs Maxé, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Arnout Malfliet, Björn Schmelzer (dir.)

Live sound, light and image technique: Alexandre Fostier, Koen Broos and Peter Quasters

Music by Damião de Góis, Thomas Ashewell and John Browne

in collaboration with Les rencontres Inattendues Doornik, Stad Doornik, Hospital of Undersized Gestures Lisbon and with the support of the Flemish Community and Stad Antwerpen

GRAINDELAVOIX SINGS GESUALDO

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2018-03-02 | Fragments of Tenebrae Responsoria Feria Quinta by Carlo Gesualdo in a concert at Chapelle Corneille Rouen, february 2018.
The project is coproduced by and prepared at Fondation Royaumont.

GESUALDO by GRAINDELAVOIX in 2018:

Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
Igreja de São Roque
March 24th 2018
https://gulbenkian.pt/musica/en/evento/graindelavoix/

New Epiphanies Festival, Warsaw (PL)
Geological Museum
March 25th 2018
http://noweepifanie.pl/wydarzenia/ciemne-jutrznie-tenebrae-responsoria/

De Bijloke Muziekcentrum, Ghent (BE)
Sint-Machariuskerk
March 29th 2018
bijloke.be/programma/233/Gesualdo_Responsoria_Voor_De_Goede_Week/Graindelavoix

Muziekpodium Zeeland, Middelburg (NL)
Burgerzaal Stadhuis
March 30th 2018
http://www.muziekpodiumzeeland.nl/programma/graindelavoix-olv-björn-schmelzer

Festival van Vlaanderen, Mechelen / Lunalia (BE)
Sint-Pieter-en-Paulkerk
May 5th 2018
lunalia.be/programma/gesualdo-xl

KunstFestspiele Herrenhausen, Hannover (DE)
Marktkirche
May 26th 2018
http://kunstfestspiele.de/programm/verantstaltungen.html

Fondation Royaumont, Paris (FR)
Réfectoire des moines
October 6th 2018

Early Music Series - Prague Symphony Orchestra (CZ)
Church of St. Simon and Jude
April 16th 2019

Graindelavoix directed by Bjørn Schmelzer with Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Arnout Malfliet.

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GRAINDELAVOIX SINGS STABAT MATER JOSQUIN LIVE

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2017-09-13 | A live performance of the unmatched Stabat Mater by Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521) at the concert in Brussels fabulous Kapellekerk, probable resting place of painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
The pictures are from the rehearsals the day before.
The singers of graindelavoix on this performance are: Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson & Arnout Malfliet, directed by Björn Schmelzer

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GRAINDELAVOIX SINGS THOMAS ASHWELL LIVE IN KRAKOW

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2017-08-23 | Agnus Dei of the Missa Ave Maria by Thomas Ashwell (1478-c.1524) during a live concert in Krakow in august 2017.
Unfortuntately there was a lot of traffic around the church which contributes to the noise of this recording. Nevertheless, you get an impression of how Graindelavoix tackles the flamboyant English polyphony of the beginning of the 16th century!

The singers of graindelavoix on this performance are: Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Carine Tinney, Tomàs Maxé, Razek-François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson & Arnout Malfliet, directed by Björn Schmelzer

photos of the Krakow concert by Katarzyna Klimek.

Next concerts with this program:
UTRECHT, Early Music Festival, 28 aug 2017
http://oudemuziek.nl/agenda/alle-concerten-20172018/fom-39-graindelavoix/fom-39-graindelavoix/
ROYAUMONT, 7 oct 2017
royaumont.com/fr/festival17-graindelavoix/presentation

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GRAINDELAVOIX SINGS DU FAY : SALVE FLOS TUSCE GENTIS

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2017-08-11 | Live-recording of graindelavoix in Zuccharo, Italy, june 2017

The singers of Graindelavoix are Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Razek François Bitar, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Bart Meynckens & Arnout Malfliet, directed by Björn Schmelzer.

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GRAINDELAVOIX sings DU FAY BALSAMUS ET MUNDA CERA

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2017-08-10 | Live-recording of graindelavoix in Zuccharo, Italy, june 2017

The singers of Graindelavoix are Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Razek François Bitar, Marius Peterson, Adrian Sîrbu, Bart Meynckens & Arnout Malfliet, directed by Björn Schmelzer.

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Pedro Ruimonte lamentations GRAINDELAVOIX live-recording

GRAINDELAVOIX BOOTLEGS 2017-07-27 | Live-recording of première concert in Brno, april 2017, with Lamentations for Holy Saturday by Pedro Ruimonte (1565-1627) , printed in Antwerp in 1607 at Phalèse publisher.
Only a part of the beginning is missing, unfortunately...
The singers of graindelavoix are: Anne-Kathryn Olsen, Alice Kamenezky, Razek François Bitar, Albert Riera, Andrés Miravete, Marius Peterson, Tomàs Maxé & Arnout Malfliet, directed by Björn Schmelzer

live sound recording: Jaroslav Zouhar
pictures: Petr Francán

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