"It's precisely distance, alienation and displacement that enable us to appreciate these repertoires. And at the same time, I don't believe that contemporaries understood the art of their time any better, nor that music and art were, so to speak, more rooted in life and shared by all. Medieval and Renaissance art, like the art of modernity, was deliberately strange, impossible, singular, eccentric, ambiguous and ambivalent."
Crescendo Magazine interviewed Björn Schmelzer about latest Graindelavoix CD!
Read full interview in English translation or in French here https://www.crescendo-magazine.be/bjorn-schmelzer.../)
