Ensemble Gilles Binchois
From the group's official bio (updated 2010)...
After thirty years, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois keeps its
unremitting enthusiasm in upholding the 15th and 16th century
repertoires and the medieval Church music, topics of its musical
work. Drawing on this deep experience, the ensemble expanded its
repertoires, basing its performances on its deeply founded
aesthetics:
- Baroque Plain-Chant and Faux-bourdon, often in alternation with
organ;
- Music of the early Baroque in France and Italy (the century of
Louis the XIIth, Gesualdo, Monteverdi...) founding its work on its
thorough familiarity with the counterpoint of the previous
centuries;
- Medieval monodies which suggest connections and dialogues with
other musical cultures (India, Morocco, Iran, Spain).
The Ensemble Gilles Binchois can be heard regularly in Europe
and has toured in Morocco, India, USA, Malaysia, South America.
Dominique Vellard and the Ensemble Gilles Binchois have released
more than 40 recordings for Harmonic Records, Harmonia Mundi,
EMI-Virgin, Ambroisie and Glossa.
The Ensemble is supported by the french Ministère de
la culture - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles
de Bourgogne and Conseil Régional de Bourgogne.
Discography
(chronological, by recording date)
- In omnem terram
- Chants grégorien et chants liturgiques regionaux du
moyen-âge
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Auvidis 4953 (LP)
- Ecole de Notre Dame de Paris
- Le Chant des Cathédrales
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8611
- Machaut: Poète et musicien
- Le vray remède d'amour
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Stil 1203 CCS 87 (Cass.)
- Triste plaisir et douleureuse joye
- Binchois / Dufay: Ballades, Rondeaux, Lamentation
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8719
- Le vray remède d'amour
- Machaut: Ballades, Rondeaux, Virelais, Motets
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8825
- Les Tons de la Musique
- Gregorian Chant
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8827
- Le Banquet du Voeu 1454
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 59043
- Le Manuscript du Puy
- L'Office du Nouvel An: Cathédrale du Puy-en-Velay,
XIIe - XVIe siècles
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 59238
- Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 8931
- Fontaine de grace
- Jehan de Lescurel: Ballades, virelais et rondeaux
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45066
- Dufay: Missa Ecce ancilla Domini
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45050
- Les Escholiers de Paris
- Motets, Chansons et Estampies du XIIIe siècle
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 9245
- Ecole de Notre Dame de Paris
- Permanence et Rayonnement: XIIe, XIIIe et XIVe siècles
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Harmonic 9349
- Palestrina: Mass, Lamentations, etc.
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis -
Dominique Vellard
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77317
- Le Jugement du Roi de Navarre
- Machaut: Ballades, motets, virelais, textes dits
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Cantus 9626
- Les premiers polyphonies française
- Organa et tropes du XIe siècle
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard, dir.
Virgin Veritas 45135
- El Misteri d'Elx
- Drame sacrée en deux parties pour la Fête de
l'Assomption de la Vierge
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45239 (2 CDs)
- Meeting of Angels
- Nishat Khan & Ensemble Gilles Binchois
Amiata Secret World 1096
- Musique et poésie à Saint Gall
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard & Wulf Arlt
Harmonia Mundi "Documenta"
905239
- Sola m'ire
- Cancionero de Palacio
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45359
- Mon souverain desir
- Binchois: Chansons
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45285
- Escobar: Requiem
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45328
- Tientos y Glosas en Iberia
- Jesús Martín Moro / Ensemble Gilles Binchois -
Dominique Vellard
Tempéraments 316014
- Les trois Maries
- Messe grégorienne de Pâques
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45398
- Cantor & Musicus
- La Musique dans les Manuscrits de la bibliothèque
Interuniversitaire Médecine de Montpellier
Ensemble Gilles Binchois
Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire
de Montpellier BIU 7437 (CD-ROM)
- Pérotin & L'École de Notre Dame, 1160-1245
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Ambroisie 9947
- Amour, Amours
- Florilège des chansons françaises de la
Renaissance
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45458
- Cantigas de Santa Maria
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois
Ambroisie 9973
- Ceballos: Lamentaciones / Posuerunt super caput eius / Missa
3. toni / Salve Regina, Magnificat 2. toni
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Almaviva 0136
- L'Arbre de Jessé
- Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Glossa 32302
- L'amor de lonh
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Glossa 32304
- Peñalosa: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor
- Les Sacqueboutiers / Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Glossa 922305
- Polyphonies oubliées
- Faux-bourdons XVIe-XIXe
Maîtrise de Toulouse / Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique
Vellard
Aparté 097
- Isaac: Missa Virgo prudentissima
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 023
- Fons luminis
- Codex Las Huelgas
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 051
- Messes de Barcelone et d'Apt
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 060
- Le Jeune: Le Printemps
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 069
- Dufay: Le prince d'amours
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 082
Compilations
- Musica humana
- Anonymous 4 / Ensemble Discantus / Ensemble Gilles Binchois /
Choeur byzantin de Grèce / Ensemble Organum / Musica Nova
/ Crawford Young & John Fleagle / Gothic Voices / Hilliard
Ensemble / Houria Aïchi / Yann-Fanch Kemener / Ozan Firat /
Kalenda Maya / Françoise Atlan
L'Empreinte digitale 13047
- Le Banquet du Voeu
- Le Manuscript du Puy
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 45337 (2
CDs)
- Millenium - Music from the Middle Ages
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Classics 61640 (2
CDs)
- Le Banquet du Voeu - Dufay: Missa "Ecce ancilla
Domini"
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Classics 61818 (2
CDs)
- Early French Polyphonies - Le Manuscript du Puy
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Veritas 61940 (2
CDs)
- Cathedral Dreams
- Music to Inspire
Various artists
Virgin 67804 (2 CDs)
- Machaut: Je, Guillaumes dessus nommez
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Cantus 9804/6 (3 CDs)
- Le Chant des Cathédrales
- Notre Dame School, 12th-14th centuries
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Cantus "Mirror Collection"
9703/4 (2 CDs)
- Vox Naturalis
- Medieval Vocal Music: Chant / Notre Dame / Machaut
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Cantus 9817/20 (4 CDs)
- Dictionary of Medieval & Renaissance Instruments
- Various Artists
Cantus 9705/6 (2 CDs)
- Chansons de la Renaissance
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Virgin Classics 82076 (2
CDs)
- With Voice and Pen
- Coming to Know Medieval Song and How it was Made
Ensemble Dialogus / Ensemble Gilles Binchois / Sequentia ...
Oxford University Press ISBN
978-0-19-921476-1 (book + CD)
- Cours et Cathédrales
- La musique de la France médiévale
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Cantus 9901 (7 CDs)
- Le Mystère des Templiers
- Various performers
Ambroisie 195
- Machaut: Sacred and Secular Music
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Brilliant Classics 94217
(3 CDs + CDROM)
- Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
- Various artists
Warner Classics 90296 73084
(34 CDs)
- Voix du Ciel
- Polyphonies médiévales XIII-XVe siècles
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 065 (2
CDs)
Supplementary Discography - Dominique Vellard (b.1953)
From Vellard's official bio (updated 2010)....
The major areas explored by Dominique Vellard in his musical
career are rooted in his childhood experience, as a choirboy at
Notre-Dame de Versailles, that gave rise to his passionate love of
Gregorian chant, Renaissance polyphony, french composers of the
seventeenth century and Bach organ music and chorales.
Soon after completing his studies at the Versailles conservatory,
Dominique Vellard decided to concentrate his work on medieval and
Renaissance repertories, fields in which he felt he was entirely
free to express his musical aesthetics.
Alongside his "medieval career," Dominique Vellard has
kept up his involvement in other repertoires, exploring the fruitful
possibilities of encounters between the earliest works in his
repertoire, and traditions as varied as North and South Indian
Classical repertories, Breton Guerz and Spanish traditions.
Dominique Vellard has made more than forty recordings, whether
as soloist, conductor, or at the head of the Ensemble Gilles Binchois,
which he has directed since 1979. He has taught at the Schola
Cantorum in Basel since 1982. He is also the artistic director of
the festival "Les Recontres Internationales de Musique
Médiévale du Thoronet."
As a composer, he writes regularly, since 1999, for the Ensemble
Gilles Binchois and for friends, mostly vocal music: A first CD
of his vocal music is edited by the record company Glossa.
- Ciconia: Madrigaux & Ballades
- Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi 10 068 (LP)
- Binchois: Chansons, Missa Ferialis, Magnificat
- Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic
Harmonia Mundi 10 069 (LP)
- Troubadours & Trouvères
- Gerard Le Vot, et. al.
Studio SM 12 21.75
- Polyphonie Aquitaine du XIIe siècle - St-Martial de Limoges
- Extraits des matines de Noël
Ensemble Organum - Marcel Pérès
Harmonia Mundi 901134
- Veritas mea
- Chant Grégorien dans l'Église romaine de Tavant
Dominique Vellard & Emmanuel Bonnardot
Stil 2106 SAN 84
- Dufay: Missa Ave Regina cælorum
- Ensemble Cantus Figuratus / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
- Dominique Vellard
Stil 0710 SAN 85
- Codex Engelberg 314
- Music of the Late Middle Ages
Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - Dominique Vellard / Wulf Arlt
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77185
- Nova Cantica
- Latin Songs of the High Middle Ages
Dominique Vellard & Emmanuel Bonnardot
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 77196
- La Chapelle des chantres des Ducs de Lorraine
- Thérache / Lasson / Motets de Lorraine
Ensemble Cantus Figuratus / La Traditora - Dominique Vellard
K617 056
(Collection Mémoire Musicale de la Lorraine)
- Sources
- Devotional chants of Southern India and Medieval Europe
Aruna Sairam / Dominique Vellard
Virgin Classics 45440
- Meeting
- Two Worlds of Modal Music
Indian Ragas & Medieval Song
Dominique Vellard / Ken Zuckerman / Swapan Chaudhuri / Keyvan
Chemirani
Harmonia Mundi "Documenta"
905261
- Escobar: Missa in Granada, 1520
- Ensemble Cantus Figuratus - Dominique Vellard
Christophorus 77263
- Indian Ragas & Medieval Song
- Vellard / Zuckerman / Chatterjee / Chemirani
Glossa 922508
- Motets Croises
- Works by Monteverdi, Schütz, Leguay, Frescobaldi
Dominique Vellard / Jean-Pierre Leguay
Glossa 32303
- Trialogue
- A Project around South Indian, Moroccan, and Medieval European
Traditions
Aruna Sairam / Noureddine Tahiri / Dominique Vellard
Glossa 32306
- M'arrêter ici...
- Esquisses d'Asie Mineure
Ourania Lampropoulou / Dominique Vellard
Evidence Classics 094
Composed by Vellard
- Vox nostra resonet
- New music for voices
Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Glossa 32301
- Vellard: Cantica Sacra
- Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard
Evidence 009 [CDx2]
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