Dominique Vellard (born 1953) is a French tenor and specialist in

medieval music Medieval music encompasses the sacred music, sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the Dates of classical music eras, first and longest major era of Western class ...

. In 1979 he founded the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, a leading ensemble in the performance of

Ars Nova ''Ars nova'' ()Fallows, David. (2001). "Ars nova". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan. refers to a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of ...

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Selected discography

Harmonic: *

Gregorian Chant Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, plainchant, a form of monophony, monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek language, Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed main ...

. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Harmonic 8827 * Les Escholiers de Paris - Motets, Chansons et Estampies du XIIIe siècle. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Harmonic reissued

Cantus Records Cantus Records is a Spanish classical music record label based in Madrid founded in 1996 by José Carlos Cabello. Cabello originally was one of the founders in 1991 of the Glossa Records label led by José Miguel Moreno José Miguel Moreno (Madrid ...

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Machaut Guillaume de Machaut (, ; also Machau and Machault; – April 1377) was a French composer and poet who was the central figure of the style in late medieval music. His dominance of the genre is such that modern musicologists use his death to ...

: Messe de Notre Dame *

: Le Jugement du Roi de Navarre Ballades, motets, virelais. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Cantus Virgin Veritas: *

Jehan de Lescurel Jehan de Lescurel (; also Jehannot de l'Escurel) was a composer-poet of late medieval music. Jehan's extensive surviving ''oeuvre'' is an important and rare examples of the ''formes fixes'' before the time of Guillaume de Machaut; it consists of ...

: Fontaine de grace Ballades, virelais et rondeaux Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45066 *

Guillaume Dufay Guillaume Du Fay ( , ; also Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of early Renaissance music, who is variously described as French or Franco-Flemish. Considered the leading European composer of h ...

: Missa Ecce ancilla Domini Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45050 * Le Banquet du Voeu 1454. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 59043 * Le Manuscrit du Puy. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 59238 * Les premiers polyphonies française. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard, dir. Virgin Veritas 45135 * El Misteri d'Elx. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45239 (2 CDs) * Sola m'ire

Cancionero de Palacio The Cancionero de Palacio (Madrid, Biblioteca Real, MS II–1335), or Cancionero Musical de Palacio (CMP), also known as Cancionero de Barbieri, is a Spanish manuscript of Renaissance music. The works in it were compiled during a time span of aro ...

. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45359 *

Gilles Binchois Gilles de Bins dit Binchois (also Binchoys; – 20 September 1460) was a Franco-Flemish composer and singer of early Renaissance music. A central figure of the Burgundian School, Binchois is renowned a melodist and miniaturist; he generally a ...

: chansons Mon souverain desir. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45285 *

Pedro de Escobar Pedro de Escobar (c. 1465 – after 1535), a.k.a. ''Pedro do Porto'', was a Portuguese composer of the Renaissance, mostly active in Spain. He was one of the earliest and most skilled composers of polyphony in the Iberian Peninsula, whose mu ...

: Requiem Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45328 * Les trois Maries - Messe grégorienne de Pâques. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45398 * Amour, Amours Florilège des chansons françaises de la Renaissance Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45458

Glossa Music Glossa is a classical music record label based in Spain. The label was founded in 1992 by brothers José Miguel Moreno, a lutenist, and Emilio Moreno a violinist. The label is Spain's first independent classical label.Billboard - 18 Jul 1998 - Pag ...

: * Music and Poetry in

St Gallen St. Gallen is a Swiss city and the capital of the canton of St. Gallen. It evolved from the hermitage of Saint Gall, founded in the 7th century. Today, it is a large urban agglomeration (with around 167,000 inhabitants in 2019) and rep ...

- Sequences and tropes. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard * Motets croisés

Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considere ...

Heinrich Schütz Heinrich Schütz (; 6 November 1672) was a German early Baroque music, Baroque composer and organ (music), organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and one of the most important composers of ...

, Leguay,

Frescobaldi The Frescobaldi are a prominent Florentine noble family whose influence extends deeply into the political, economic, and social fabric of Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the ...

. Dominique Vellard :fr:Jean-Pierre Leguay * L'Arbre de Jessé

Gregorian chant Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainsong, plainchant, a form of monophony, monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek language, Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed main ...

and medieval polyphony. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard *

Francisco de Peñalosa Francisco de Peñalosa (c. 1470 – April 1, 1528) was a Spanish composer of the middle Renaissance. Life He was born in Talavera de la Reina in the province of Toledo. He spent most of his career in Seville, serving as the ''maestro di capi ...

: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor.

Les Sacqueboutiers Les Sacqueboutiers, formerly Les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse, are French early music wind and brass ensemble founded in 1976 by Jean-Pierre Canihac and Jean-Pierre Mathieu at Toulouse. They play the cornet à bouquin and the sackbut, with other instr ...

Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard * L'Amor de Lohn Medieval songs of love and loss. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard * Vellard: Vox nostra resonet New music for voices. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard * Trialogue - South Indian, Moroccan and European medieval traditions. :fr:Aruna Saïram Noureddine Tahiri Dominique Vellard * Indian Ragas and Medieval Song - Modal melodies from East to West. Dominique Vellard Ken Zuckerman Anindo Chatterjee Keyvan Chemirani Other labels: * Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly (1785–1858) Temperaments * Tientos Temperaments *

Palestrina Palestrina (ancient ''Praeneste''; , ''Prainestos'') is a modern Italian city and ''comune'' (municipality) with a population of about 22,000, in Lazio, about east of Rome. It is connected to the latter by the Via Prenestina. It is built upon ...

DHM * Manuscrit de Saint-Gall - Musique & Poésie du IXe siècle de Dominique Vellard SCB 1997 * Rodrigo de Ceballos Lamentations. Mass. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Almaviva *

Pérotin Pérotin () was a composer associated with the Notre Dame school of polyphony in Paris and the broader musical style of high medieval music. He is credited with developing the polyphonic practices of his predecessor Léonin, with the introd ...

and the school of Notre Dame, 1160-1245 Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Ambroisie 9947 *

Cantigas de Santa Maria The ''Cantigas de Santa Maria'' (, ; "Canticles of Holy Mary") are 420 poems with musical notation, written in the medieval Galician-Portuguese language during the reign of Alfonso X of Castile, Alfonso X of Castile ''El Sabio'' (1221–1284). T ...

Ensemble Gilles Binchois Ambroisie 9973

References

External links

Dominique Vellard biography on Ensemble Gilles Binchois website

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