Against a post-Enlightenment yardsick of order and balance a composer of Agricola’s sensibilities can only ever come up short; but the listener willing to be persuaded might (as some commentators [...]

This 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. [...]

In recent years pieces accepted as being by Josquin have been falling like dominoes. One result has been that works placed in the Josquin ‘canon’ have occupied a narrower and [...]

Introduction In its heyday the Duchy of Savoy occupied a strong and distinctive position on the European stage: standing between two great cultures, those of Italy and France, it partook [...]

This highly topical programme offers a concise lunchtime- or afternoon-length recital of 65’ duration with chant and polyphony in honour of St Ethelbert, king and martyr, and the Blessed Virgin [...]

This highly topical programme is offered in an evening concert format (50’ and 45’ with interval) with chant and polyphony in honour of St Edmund, king and martyr and from [...]

Midlands alabaster was one of the great exports of the later Middle Ages. Quarried in south Derbyshire and adjacent parts of Staffordshire, it was easily malleable and beautifully luminous. Alabaster [...]

This highly topical programme, offered either as a full evening concert or a concise lunchtime- or afternoon-length recital of 65’ duration, presents a feast of music in honour of this [...]