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It hits us with all its might: Antoine Brumel's ‘Earthquake Mass’, as the innovative Belgian vocal ensemble Graindelavoix Graindelavoix brings the Renaissance work vehemently into the present day.

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a big vocal earthquake

“And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door.” In his performance of Antoine Brumel’s famous mass, Björn Schmelzer takes the text of the Easter antiphon “Et ecce terrae motus“ quite literally. With its twelve voices, it is considered the epitome of Renaissance sound, but instead of plain “early music”, Schmelzer and his ensemble Graindelavoix whip up a modern tumult of the elements with their project “Rolling Stone”. Extreme singing, shattering wind instruments, a disturbing electric guitar – this is how contemporary a 500-year-old mass can sound.

Graindelavoix  
Direction & concept: Björn Schmelzer 
Composition & arrangements: Manuel Mota, E-guitar
Live-sound-engineering: Dominik Boiy 
Light design: Alex Fostier, Margarida Garcia & Björn Schmelzer 

Programme

Antoine Brumel: Missa "Et ecce terrae motus"

Duration: around 70 minutes without intermission

Tickets

Prices: EUR 24 / 48 / 72

Reductions:
U27 (for all under 27) & Ö1 Intro: 50 % reduction
Ö1 Club & Standard Abo: 10 % reduction

Cast

Graindelavoix

Graindelavoix
© Charlie de Keersmaecker
Vocal ensemble

Björn Schmelzer

Porträt Björn Schmelzer
© Karoly Effenberger
Conductor, writer, filmmaker and anthropologist

Björn Schmelzer is a conductor, writer, artist, filmmaker and anthropologist. As artistic director of the Antwerp music ensemble Graindelavoix, he has produced seventeen CDs (plus assorted hybrid-format works), while regularly putting on concerts in Belgium and abroad, and undertaking residencies at art institutions.

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