Ensemble Gilles Binchois

Polyphonies oubliées - 2 CD

Description

From the Middle Ages to the mid-19th century and, in some cases, until the Second Vatican Council, plainchant was sung in polyphony throughout Europe in extremely varied ways. It is no exaggeration to say that for centuries, it represented the sonic image that identified church music for the faithful. Fauxbourdon was a means by which singers embellished the plainchant melody in order to solemnize the divine office. To bring these musics back to life, it was notably necessary to grasp their measure, then to assimilate the significant oral dimension of these “ways of singing plainchant,” since a simple performance of the written sources would not make it possible to recover the charms and beauties of the preserved fauxbourdons. Dominique Vellard’s response was to work throughout the project with the same group of singers, in order to establish collective reflexes suited to capturing the specificity of fauxbourdons. This double album is thus the result of four years of work, during which several thousand examples were identified, both manuscript and printed. The selection offered reflects the variety and diversity of French polyphonic plainchant over a period of four centuries.

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