Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard – Messes de Barcelone et d’Apt (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

After 40 years of activities, more than 50 recordings and some 1000 concerts, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois still develop its inquiring generosity. Dominique Vellard and his musicians make all eras become contemporary. Indeed, if the core of its concerns is somewhere between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Ensemble sang everything from Gregorian chant to the religious repertoire of the nineteenth century.

Today they guide our ears towards the shores of the Mediterranean, where an intense artistic vitality grew between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. After Machaut’s model, the composers attached to the court of Avignon, Barcelona and Cyprus, show ingenuity and imagination: their motets and masses are the ground of rhythmic and melodic finds.

To draw a complete portrait the Ensemble Gilles Binchois perform pieces of plain-song and instrumental compositions with two vielles and a medieval mandolin.

First milestone of its 40th anniversary, this new record lets the South sun shine thanks to the voices of its singers and the timbre of the ancient strings.

Tracklist:
01. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe de Barcelone (Barcelone-Bbc, ms. 971): Kyrie (02:20)
02. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe de Barcelone (Barcelone-Bbc, ms. 971): Gloria avec trope “Splendor patris” (07:19)
03. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe de Barcelone (Barcelone-Bbc, ms. 971): Credo – De Sortes (08:12)
04. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe de Barcelone (Barcelone-Bbc, ms. 971): Sanctus avec trope “Sacro sanctus / Sanctus miro gaudio” (04:32)
05. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe de Barcelone (Barcelone-Bbc, ms. 971): “Adoramus te”, motet (Madrid-BN, ms. 1361) (01:43)
06. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe de Barcelone (Barcelone-Bbc, ms. 971): Agnus Dei à 4 voix (03:25)
07. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Deus tuorum militum, hymne à 3 voix avec plain-chant alterné (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis) (04:17)
08. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Dantur officia / “Quid scire”, motet joué aux instruments (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis) (01:45)
09. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Christe redemptor omnium, hymne avec plain-chant alterné (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis) (03:26)
10. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Colla jugo / “Bona condit”, motet joué aux instruments – de Vitry (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis) (02:39)
11. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe d’Apt (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis): Kyrie avec trope “Humano generi” (f.2v/3) (07:07)
12. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe d’Apt (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis): Gloria – de Depansis (f.10) (05:27)
13. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe d’Apt (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis): Sanctus – de Tapissier (f.35v/36) (02:52)
14. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe d’Apt (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis): “Imperatrix / O Maria”, motet joué aux instruments (02:11)
15. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe d’Apt (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis): Agnus Dei (02:12)
16. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Messe d’Apt (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis): “Juste judex”, hymne (Madrid-BN, ms. 1361) (01:21)
17. Dominique Vellard, Ensemble Gilles Binchois – Ave maris stella, hymne mariale (Apt-trésor, ms. 16bis) (02:37)