Messe de Nostre Dame

"On this CD we get a robust and highly convincing interpretation from the ever enterprising eight-person (all male) French group, Diabolus in Musica ... By refusing to overplay their hands, by judicious restraint, and by meticulous articulation of every note in undemonstrative yet highly expressive phrasing Diabolus in Musica seems to have captured not only the rigor and joy which Machaut employed in this task".

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"Vurdering: Editor's choice" - "A new recording of Machaut's Mass is always an event, and this one is compelling and provocative in equal measure: compelling, because of the beauty of the voices and the evicent care that has been lavished on so many details; provocative, because so many of those details will surprise, startle and perhaps infuriate".

"Brauchen wir noch eine Aufnahme von Guillaume de Machauts Messe de Nostre Dame? ... Allerdings, die Einspielung durch Graindelavoix bietet dieses Werk som wie man es noch nie gehört hat. Ein Kompliment ist das nur bedingt ... Björn Schmelzer ... fügt mikrotonale Verzierungen ein, die mehr nach Maqam als nach Machaut klingen ... Sie lässt ein allzu bekanntes Werk wie das Dokument einer fremden Kultur erscheinen".