Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Release Date: 01 April 2008
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571152721
Genres: Classical Early Music
Description
This is a glorious disc: superb performances of truly wonderful music.
St James the Greater, Apostle of Christ, foster son of the Virgin Mary, brother of St John the Evangelist, and indeliblyâif somewhat perplexinglyâassociated with Compostela, became the focus of many composers; after all, anyone who was anyone in the Middle Ages (including Chaucer's Wife of Bath) would make a pilgrimage to St James's shrine in Spain at some point in their life. The exact background to Dufay's Mass is as yet unknown but it is an enormous work (forty minutes plus) of great passion.
Also included on this disc are three motets composed around the same time as the Mass, and a Gloria/Credo pairing, remarkable for up-beat, if irreverent, interpolations of snippets from Italian and French popular songs during the 'Amens'.
Tracklisting
Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nir Kabaretti
The Brabant Ensemble / Stephen Rice
Steven Isserlis
The Nash Ensemble
MultiPiano Ensemble, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin / Ivor Bolton
Marc-Andre Hamelin
Marc-Andre Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Litton
Gothic Voices / Christopher Page
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman: The Binchois Consort
