Jacob Obrecht: ‘Scaramella’

Whitekirk's beautiful church dates mostly from a rebuild in the mid-15th century around the time of Jacob Obrecht's birth. The great Flemish musician would go on to be the most important composer of masses later that century. The popular 15th-century song Scaramella, about a Baldrick-like itinerant soldier, found its way into many sacred works of the time, but was also set by some of Obrecht's contemporaries as a secular madrigal. The Binchois Consort's programme centres on Fabrice Fitch's reconstruction of Obrecht's superb Missa Scaramella and introduces music by Obrecht's contemporaries with a modern motet by Fitch himself.

'the pure-toned Binchois Consort … works of sublime clarity … mesmerising.' – The Observer

Programme:
Brumel Philippe qui videt me
Josquin des Prez Scaramella
Obrecht Missa Scaramella
Agricola Sancte Philippe apostola
Obrecht O preciossime sanguine
Fitch Planctus David
Compère Scaramella
Obrecht Mater patris

Performers:
The Binchois Consort
Andrew Kirkman director