Ensemble Gilles Binchois
As with so many of the best early music ensembles performing today, the performances of the Ensemble Gilles Binchois have been inextricably linked with profound musical scholarship and the leadership of a single powerful personality. For the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, this personality remains its founder and director, Dominique Vellard. While also presenting around 30 concerts a year, the group has continued a steady recording pace into the mid-2020s. Adding to its catalog of more than 40 recordings, it issued the album Timor Mortis in 2024.
Vellard and some of his close colleagues founded the Ensemble Gilles Binchois in 1978, taking clear positions from the outset that it would perform from original notation and make every effort through its performances to foster a more profound understanding of the structure and function of its music. The ensemble changes its personnel depending upon the repertory: from a handful of male voices for plainchant or early polyphony to a few mixed singers for chansons to adding festive instruments for splashier works. One of the most distinctive features of the group's performing style is its thoughtful consideration of, and experimentation with, the ways that indigenous oral traditions might have impacted a more "formal" singing style. Though the Ensemble Gilles Binchois began its career focusing on French music and has most frequently brought out earlier French repertory, the expansion of its personnel to include specialists from other countries has helped it branch out geographically. It regularly performs all over Europe and has toured throughout the Americas and Asia.
The Ensemble Gilles Binchois has been rewarded with the support of a large number of French governmental institutions, including the enthusiastic support of the Musical Affairs Department of the French Ministry of Culture. It retains a relationship with the Center for Medieval Music in Paris, as many of the group's performers have taught or studied there. In addition, the ensemble has profited from close collaboration with some of Europe's leading musicologists: Marie-Noël Colette in Paris and Karen Smith and Wulf Arlt in Basel, Switzerland.
The Ensemble Gilles Binchois has released more than 40 recordings across labels such as Virgin Classics, Ambroisie, and Evidence, where the majority of its releases have been issued since 2015. These include Messes de Barcelone et d'Apt (2019), Dufay: Le prince d'amours (2021), and Timor Mortis (2024).
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L'Amor de Lonh: Medieval Songs of Love and Loss (Traditional - Jaufre Rudel - Anonymous)
Classical - Glossa 発売日 2010/09/20
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Machaut: Le jugement du roi de Navarre
Ensemble Gilles Binchois|Dominique Vellard
Classical - Cantus Records 発売日 1999/02/01
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Gregorian Chant And Medieval Polyphony (L'Arbre De Jesse) (Anonymous - Marie-Noel Colette)
Classical - Glossa 発売日 2008/01/01
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Le Banquet de voeu
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard
Classical - Warner Classics 発売日 2005/11/28
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Escobar/Penalosa/Anchieta
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard
Classical - Warner Classics 発売日 2005/11/25
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Les escholiers de Paris (Motets, chansons et estampies)
Ensemble Gilles Binchois|Dominique Vellard
Classical - Cantus Records 発売日 1999/07/03
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jehan de Lescurel - Fontaine de Grace (Ballades, virelais et rondeaux)
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard
Classical - Warner Classics 発売日 1995/03/13
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
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Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
Classical - Cantus Records 発売日 1999/10/16
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
French Polyphony
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard
Classical - Warner Classics 発売日 1999/07/12
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Vellard, D.: 7 Dernieres Paroles Du Christ En Croix (Les) / Stabat Mater / Missa Laudes Deo
Classical - Glossa 発売日 2007/01/01
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Sermisy: Lamentations
Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Dominique Vellard
Masses, Passions, Requiems - Evidence Classics 発売日 2024/03/29
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Les Escholiers de Paris: Motets, Songs and Estampies of the 13th Century
Classical - Cantus Records 発売日 1999/07/03
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Guillaume de Machaut: Le vray remède d'amour
Classical - Cantus Records 発売日 1991/10/01
16-Bit CD音質 44.1 kHz - Stereo