Graindelavoix

Graindelavoix

Forget everything you thought you knew about polyphony. Graindelavoix kicks down the doors of music history and reveals what musicologists have always kept silent about: that polyphony was not a simple art form but aural alchemy – l'art pour l'art without shame or restriction. Solage's crazy ars subtilior, Luython's hermetic experiments: these were resounding showpieces with which princes filled their cabinets of curiosities. A sonic trip through four centuries of impossible sounds: this music has teeth!

Programme

• Wunderkammer of Jean de Berry

• Solage

  Corps feminin
  Fumeux fume

  fl. late 14th century
• Jacob de Senleches

  Je me merveil

  fl. 1382/83

• Wunderkammer of Margaret of Austria

• Marbrianus De Orto

  Dulces exuviae

  c1460-1529
• Josquin Desprez

  Proch dolor

  c1450/55-1521
• Pierre de la Rue

  Sous ce tumbel
  Doleo super te

  c1452-1518
• Antoine Brumel

  Tous les regretz

  c1460-1512/13

• Nachleben of the regretz chanson

• Nicolas Gombert

  Tous les regretz

  c1495-1560

• Wunderkammer of Albrecht V of Bavaria

• Cipriano de Rore

  Calami sonum ferentes
  Dissimulare etiam sperasti
  Media vita in morte

  1515/16-1565

• Wunderkammer of Rudolf II of Prague

• Michael Maier

  Latonae sobolem
  Nosse cupis causam
  Praetumido languensa
  Alta venenoso fodiatur

  1569-1622
• Camillo Zanotti

  Ceu verni rosaei

  c1545-1591
• Carl Luython

  Lamentationes 1-4
  
  Programme subject to change

  c1557/58-1620

Musicians

• Teodora Tommasi soprano, harp
• Florencia Menconi mezzo-soprano
• Andrew Hallock alto
• Albert Riera, André Pérez, Marius Peterson tenor
• Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet bass
• Lluis Coll i Trulls cornetto
• Floris De Rycker lute
• Björn Schmelzer artistic direction