The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #19-31, Air Date: 07/22/19
Andrew Kirkman and his Binchois Consort are back with an amazing look at the 15th century English cult of St. Catherine, a revival inspired in part by Henry V’s marriage to Katherine de Valois.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-40, Air Date: 10/06/03
The latest recording by the Binchois Consort takes us to a time when the great Duchy of Burgundy met the Royal French Court at Dufay's home cathedral at Cambrai, as Henry Tudor was preparing to cross the Channel to retake England from Richard III.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #03-06, Air Date: 02/10/03
A new recording by the Binchois Consort highlights music from the 15th century lowlands--the great Antoine Busnois (who died in Bruges), and two rarely-heard composers associated with the Church of Our Lady in Antwerp, Petrus de Domarto and Jean Pullois.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-23, Air Date: 05/30/05
All of the music on this recording is from the Hyperion disc Mass for St. Anthony Abbott featuring the Binchois Consort directed by Andrew Kirkman (CDA 67474).
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