Jacob Obrecht: ‘Scaramella’

Jacob Obrecht: ‘Scaramella’: performed by The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman (Director) playing 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 at St Mary's Church, Whitekirk on Tue 15 Sept 3pm as part of the Lammermuir Festival. 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 extraordinary reconstruction of Obrecht's superb Missa Scaramella and introduces music by Obrecht's contemporaries with a modern motet by Fitch himself.