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Poissance d’amours: Mystics, monks & minstrels in 13th-century Brabant | Glossa - Platinum GCDP32103

Poissance d’amours: Mystics, monks & minstrels in 13th-century Brabant

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Label: Glossa - Platinum

Cat No: GCDP32103

Barcode: 8424562321038

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Graindelavoix

Conductor

Bjorn Schmelzer

Artists

Graindelavoix

Conductor

Bjorn Schmelzer

About

Björn Schmelzer and Graindelavoix's third recording for Glossa features the flourishing economic and cultural environs of 13th-century Brabant: covering the areas of Brussels, Antwerp and the present day Belgian provinces of Vlaams and Walloon Brabant as well as Noord-Brabant in The Netherlands.

In 'Caput' (GCDP32101) and 'Joye' (GCDP32102), Schmelzer and his Antwerp-based ensemble explored in the late medieval music of Johannes Ockeghem and Gilles Binchois undercurrents that illuminate our own times.

An integral part of this new project - uniting three broad groups active in Brabant, mystics, monks and minstrels - is where it was recorded: the Dominican Church in Leuven, where Schmelzer considers much of this music may have been performed. Constructed following the model of the Sainte Chapelle in Paris, the church retains an acoustic unchanged by the passing of time and provides a fascinating musical account of an important region in the 13th century, hitherto neglected on record.

The disc includes works by Hildegard von Bingen, Goswin de Bossut, Hadewijch van Brabant, Henri III de Brabant, Tassin, Carasaus, Gillebert de Berneville, Perrin d'Angicourt, Jehan Erart as well as plainchant from the Villers and Nazareth Abbeys.

Recorded at the Dominican Church of Leuven (Belgium), in January 2008.

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