Grantley McDonald
Grantley McDonald is a Melbourne tenor whose catalogue work centres on mediaeval and renaissance vocal repertoire with specialist early-music ensembles.
He sings tenor with Les Six, the Melbourne group formed to perform mediaeval and renaissance music in authentic style, and appears on their Easter programme Hæc Dies (MD 3144), music for Mass as it may have been heard at Notre Dame in Paris around 1220. He is also a member of Troubadours, heard on Troubadours Live (MCD 675), and has sung with The Choir of Ormond College, for whose European-tour disc Kodály Missa Brevis (MD 3201) he contributed the liner notes.
Performing as Les Six
The vocal group Les Six were formed specifically to perform mediaeval and renaissance repertoire in authentic style.
Hæc Dies
Easter at Notre Dame, Paris, c.1220. Music for Easter Sunday Mass as it may have been heard at Notre Dame early in the thirteenth century: chant propers, a complete ordinary cycle in two-part Leoninus-style settings, and three-part organum in the style of Perotin.
A Florentine Annunciation - The Music of the 14th Century Vol. 4
The Music of the Fourteenth Century series presents some of the earliest and most significant polyphonic settings of late-medieval lyric poetry. This volume offers music for the Feast of the Annunciation, performed by Les Six.
Performing as The Choir of Ormond College
The Choir of Ormond College has, since its founding in 1982 under Douglas Lawrence, become the first Australian choir to earn ongoing international recognition for its concert and recorded work.
Kodály Missa Brevis
Recorded on their 1997 European tour in Northern Italy and Germany, the Choir of Ormond College sings Kodály’s Missa Brevis, with works by Tye, Howells and Bach.
