The “unnatural” choral music of the 14th century.

The ensemble »Graindelavoix« and its director Björn Schmelzer understand the late Middle Ages as a highly modern era. The Belgian chamber choir dedicates itself to the untapped treasures of a musical epoch that seems both infinitely distant and very close, with unearthly perfect harmony and highly individual voices. Guillaume de Machaut is still the best known of these masters of early polyphony, whose almost »unnatural« rhythmic and harmonic experiments opened the gates of music history wide open: Johannes Cicionia, Matteo de Perugia, Jacob de Senleches, Guido de Lange… The international concerts of »Graindelavoix« are always adventures and time travel, rock'n roll and archaic ritual at the same time.

With: Teodora Tommasi, Florencia Menconi, Andrew Hallock, Albert Riera, Marius Peterson, Tomàs Maxé, Arnout Malfliet (voices), Björn Schmelzer (direction)

More info: https://www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de/spielplan/a-z/graindelavoix-contre-nature/