Monsters of Early Music - Graindelavoix sings Science n'a nul annemi by Matheus de Sancto Johanne

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...."
/ graindelavoix
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[@slovakcomposer]

This is not just an excellent interpretation, it is something more. Something like a mystical transformation of the spiritual essence of the love of music into the form of a physical, beautiful sound. Awesome, bravo. 🍀

[@sravanaastrid3749]

Sublime ❤️ Quelle merveilleuse alchimie sonore, merci à ces musiciens hors pair

[@pierre-jeanperin8059]

Matheus de Sancto Johanne (mort après le 10 juin 1391), également connu sous le nom de Mayshuet, est un compositeur français de la fin du Moyen Âge. Actif en France et en Angleterre, Matheus de Sancto Johanne - également connu sous les noms de Mayshuet, Mayhuet de Joan et Matheu Seintjon1,2 - est l'un des représentants du style musical complexe et maniériste connu sous le nom d'ars subtilior qui s'épanouit autour de la cour de la papauté d'Avignon pendant le Grand Schisme d'Occident.

[@ivoryconsort]

Bravi tutti! Thank you for bring these "monsters" to our modern ears, and for your amazing and courageous performances of them. I am a lover of all styles of music, but the stuff that combines deep passion with bold intellect is especially vital for me, for I am a lover of "Science".

[@nyckolaus]

magnificent

[@AnastasiaTheMoon]

❤❤❤

[@lessismore4470]

Hypnotic...

[@angrypotato_fz]

Hay avant! Hay avant!

[@emynona5721]

Hypno - méandric ...