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Agnus Dei – Fuit homo missus
The Agnus Dei from the anonymous English Fuit homo missus Mass, for the Nativity of St John the Baptist, celebrated on June 24th. St John's Nativity was celebrated six months before Christmas to emphasise [...]
William Cornysh — Ave Maria mater Dei
William Cornysh's motet Ave Maria mater Dei. Performed at St Mary’s Guildhall, Coventry by The Binchois Consort under Andrew Kirkman. Performing edition by Philip Weller.
Anonymous Missa Caput — Kyrie
The Kyrie of the iconic anonymous English Caput Mass (once thought to be by Du Fay), featuring the trope text Deus creator, one of the great (and most influential) English pieces of the first [...]
Walter Frye, Trinitatis dies (Schedel Liederbuch)
Walter Frye's motet Trinitatis dies. Performed at St Mary’s Guildhall, Coventry by The Binchois Consort under Andrew Kirkman. Performing edition by Philip Weller.
Inter natos mulierum (chant) and motet Preco preheminencie (Dunstaple)
Dunstaple's brilliant isorhythmic motet Preco preheminencie/Precursor premittitur/Inter natos mulierum, written in honour of St John the Baptist and apparently performed to honour John, Duke of Bedford in 1416. The motet is preceded by the [...]
Walter Frye, Missa Nobilis et pulchra – Sanctus
The Sanctus of Walter Frye's beautiful 'Nobilis et pulchra' mass, written in honour of St Katherine of Alexandria. (St Katherine was one of the dedicatory patron saints of the famous Coventry religious guilds.) Performed [...]
Anonymous Missa Caput — Agnus Dei
The iconic anonymous English Caput Mass (once thought to be by Du Fay), one of the great (and most influential) English pieces of the first half of the fifteenth century. Performed at St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry [...]
Anna mater matris Christi (John Plummer)
John Plummer's motet 'Anna mater matris Christi', for four voices. A beautiful, lyrical motet in honour of St Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary. Performed at St Mary's Guildhall, Coventry by The Binchois Consort [...]
Anonymous Missa Thomas cesus — Gloria
The Gloria of the anonymous Thomas cesus mass from an Italian manuscript (San Pietro B80). This is a mass for the feast of St Thomas Becket which takes a section of the plainchant 'Mundi florem', [...]
Our Concerts:
Join us at Tage alter Musik, Regensburg on 18 May for the first ever live performance of Obrecht’s Missa Scaramella, with voices miraculously completed by Fabrice Fitch. Also motets and Scaramella songs: a moving and exhilarating programme, recently recorded for Hyperion Records and available this Summer!
Check out these highlights from our recent programme ‘Strange and Upside-Down: The Fantastical World of Alexander Agricola’, in The Barber Concert Series, University of Birmingham, 11 June 2023.
Celebrating Josquin in 2021:
Recorded on Friday August 20th, 2021, in Leominster Priory.
Enjoy Josquin’s fabulous valedictory Pater Noster-Ave Maria here
Link to the concert programme is here
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Our Most Recent Release
Our new album stands as a monument to a particular space, place, and time: the Chapel Royal of Linlithgow Palace, as it once stood, at the turn of the 16th century. Now a ruined shell, with no roof or windows, clinging to the side of the peel above Linlithgow Loch, it was once the great pleasure palace of the kings and queens of Scotland and the birthplace of James V and Mary Queen of Scots. As a refuge for the royal family between the bustle of the capital, Edinburgh, and the main royal residence in Stirling, the building once resounded to music sung by the skilled musicians of the itinerant chapel royal, surrounded by magnificent decorations and sculptures. Almost none of this – the music or the building, save its walls – survives.
