We are a civilised nation!

[ardcarp]

The World at One was tedious, obsessed mainly by the Tory Party Conference and the peccadilloes of one such Tory. But then, right at the end (43 mins 30 sec in) we got, apropos of nothing, a piece of choral music (Almeida Ensemble?) with the English Cornetts and Sackbutts playing a piece of 500-year-old-music from the bowels of the British Library.

Maybe a quite simple piece, but how amazing.

Does anyone know more about it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jjz3l

[Bryn]

The World at One was tedious, obsessed mainly by the Tory Party Conference and the peccadilloes of one such Tory. But then, right at the end (43 mins 30 sec in) we got, apropos of nothing, a piece of choral music (Almeida Ensemble?) with the English Cornetts and Sackbutts playing a piece of 500-year-old-music from the bowels of the British Library.

Maybe a quite simple piece, but how amazing.

Does anyone know more about it?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04jj37s

Sounds suspiciously like some Hermannesque Martian music to me.

It's Alamire, by the way:

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

ardcarp did you intend your link to lead to CD Review BAL 'The Planets'?

[doversoul1]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/11126604/Choral-music-not-heard-since-era-of-Henry-VIII-has-been-played-for-first-time-in-500-years.html

[french frank]

ardcarp did you intend your link to lead to CD Review BAL 'The Planets'?

No, I don't think so. It was what was on his clipboard from the previous post

[ardcarp]

Sorry!!!

[ardcarp]

Another extract was sung (very beautifully) by the Alamire ensemble just before 0830 on Breakfast today.