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The Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne (or "Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany") is a chant manuscript from (probably) the second half of the 13th century, held at the Bibliothèque Francophone Multimédia de Limoges. The manuscript is magnificently illuminated, and listeners are invited to page through it on the library's website. Here, the small choir Vox Clamantis offers performances of chants from the book; they are distinctive in many ways, making this release of interest to generalists as well as to those engaged with chant. First and most important, these were chants apparently made and sung by nuns, and the performances here mostly mix male and female singers. Whereas most chant recordings strive for a timeless purity, director Jaan-Eik Tulve instead places the music in the everyday life of an abbey, with noises ranging from bells to birdsong and the shuffling of feet. The chants are also presented as the original singers might have done at the time if they had gotten wind of the initial experiments with what became polyphony: octave doublings, and even little bits of apparently improvised, non-notated counterpoint. The cumulative effect of these devices is to present the chants not as something abstract but as lived experience, and the Mirare label's splendid treatment of the Abbaye royale de Fontevraud supports the artists' aims ideally. A fascinating collection of chant that will please any listener aesthetically while also putting across something of what chant meant to the people who created it.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne, Messe de minuit (Unknown)
Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne, Messe de l'aurore (Unknown)
Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne, Messe du jour (Unknown)
Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Mirare 2023 Mirare
Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Mirare 2023 Mirare
Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
2023 Mirare 2023 Mirare
Unknown, Composer - Vox Clamantis, MainArtist, MusicalEnsemble - Jaan-Eik Tulve, Conductor, MainArtist
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Album review
The Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne (or "Gradual of Eleanor of Brittany") is a chant manuscript from (probably) the second half of the 13th century, held at the Bibliothèque Francophone Multimédia de Limoges. The manuscript is magnificently illuminated, and listeners are invited to page through it on the library's website. Here, the small choir Vox Clamantis offers performances of chants from the book; they are distinctive in many ways, making this release of interest to generalists as well as to those engaged with chant. First and most important, these were chants apparently made and sung by nuns, and the performances here mostly mix male and female singers. Whereas most chant recordings strive for a timeless purity, director Jaan-Eik Tulve instead places the music in the everyday life of an abbey, with noises ranging from bells to birdsong and the shuffling of feet. The chants are also presented as the original singers might have done at the time if they had gotten wind of the initial experiments with what became polyphony: octave doublings, and even little bits of apparently improvised, non-notated counterpoint. The cumulative effect of these devices is to present the chants not as something abstract but as lived experience, and the Mirare label's splendid treatment of the Abbaye royale de Fontevraud supports the artists' aims ideally. A fascinating collection of chant that will please any listener aesthetically while also putting across something of what chant meant to the people who created it.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:11
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Vox Clamantis Jaan Eik Tulve
- Composer: Unknown
- Label: Mirare
- Genre: Classical Vocal Music (Secular and Sacred) Choral Music (Choirs)
2023 Mirare 2023 Mirare
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