This programme draws from the cornucopia of fabulous works that comprise our latest album. Its centrepiece is Fabrice Fitch’s reconstruction of Obrecht’s superb Missa Scaramella, only two of whose four voices (in partbooks) survive today. The achievement is sensational, and a fabulous tribute to our long-time collaborator Philip Weller, who began the project and who sadly passed away before it could be completed.
Added to the Mass are two further pieces completed by Philip: Brumel’s Philippe qui videt me, and the stunning (and deeply moving) Mater Patris by Obrecht. The latter  is one of three motets in Petrucci’s print collection Motetti a cinque, a collection of partbooks that survives in only one copy, sadly lacking one of its voice parts. For this programme we have added a reconstruction (by Robert Nosow) of another motet from the same collection and by the same composer: Obrecht’s measured and reverent O preciosissime sanguis, for the Bruges procession of the Holy Blood. Fabrice’s own Planctus, written in memory of our dear friend. plus a motet by Agricola and the two surviving songs on Scaramella, round off the recital.