Dominique Vellard Explained

Dominique Vellard (born 1953) is a French tenor and specialist in medieval music. In 1979 he founded the Ensemble Gilles Binchois, a leading ensemble in the performance of Ars Nova music. He is also a composer.^[1]

Selected discography

Harmonic:

• Gregorian Chant. 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:
  • Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame Machaut: Le Jugement du Roi de Navarre Ballades, motets, virelais. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Cantus

Virgin Veritas

• Jehan de Lescurel: Fontaine de grace Ballades, virelais et rondeaux Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45066
• Guillaume Dufay: 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. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45359
• Gilles Binchois: chansons Mon souverain desir. Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Virgin Veritas 45285
• Pedro de Escobar: 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

• Music and Poetry in St Gallen - Sequences and tropes. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard
• Motets croisés Monteverdi, Heinrich Schütz, Leguay, Frescobaldi. Dominique Vellard
• L'Arbre de Jessé Gregorian chant and medieval polyphony. Ensemble Gilles Binchois Dominique Vellard
• Francisco de Peñalosa: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor. Les Sacqueboutiers 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. 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 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 and the school of Notre Dame, 1160-1245 Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard Ambroisie 9947
• Cantigas de Santa Maria Ensemble Gilles Binchois Ambroisie 9973

External links

• Dominique Vellard biography on Ensemble Gilles Binchois website
• VIAF

Notes and References

1. http://www.glossamusic.com/glossa/artist.aspx?id=28 Glossa Music - Dominique Vellard