EMS "Restoring Obrecht's Scaramella Mass" 15/9/2024

[AuntDaisy]

This EMS looks absolutely fascinating... There's a Hyperion CD (released soon) and a Fabrice Fitch "Early Music" paper on the restoration.

Restoring Obrecht's Scaramella Mass - The Early Music Show

Hannah French welcomes musicologist Fabrice Fitch & director of the Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman, to learn about their recent reconstruction of Jacob Obrecht's Scaramella Mass.

Preserved in Berlin, only two of the original partbooks of Obrecht's Missa Scaramella remain, meaning the descant and tenor parts had to be supplied in their entirety. We'll learn about the process of this restoration and hear the Binchois Consort performing this long-forgotten Flemish masterpiece from the early Renaissance.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022sm4

[smittims]

Thanks for the notice. I like Obrecht's music , though I couldn't say why. It has a certain je ne sais quoi.

It'll be interesting to hear how they have derived the missing parts.

[AuntDaisy]

Thanks for the notice. I like Obrecht's music , though I couldn't say why. It has a certain je ne sais quoi.

It'll be interesting to hear how they have derived the missing parts.

Just been checking on my chaotically disorganised shelves, and found these CDs.
"The Missa Sub Tuum Praesidium" is my favourite, though, like you, I couldnt' say why .
I'm very fond of the ASV Gaudeamus series. There are Obrecht "fillers" on other CDs, e.g. "Barbireau: Missa Virgo Parens Christi" & "Ockeghem: Missa Mi-mi"

[AuntDaisy]

"Restoring Obrecht's Scaramella Mass" on at 5pm.. in about an hour.

I can't help thinking of CL's Scaramanga Mass

[AuntDaisy]

A very enjoyable & interesting EMS. Some fascinating details.


The Binchois Consort "Tage Alter Musik Regensburg" concert was broadcast on BR Klassik in July - I think this was the source for the EBU pieces.
A PDF booklet for the festival is available, or you can view the pages online (p52-55).

Donnerstag, 04.07.2024 20:05 bis 22:00 Uhr

FESTSPIELZEIT
Tage Alter Musik Regensburg
The Binchois Consort

Obrechts "Missa Scaramella" in einer rekonstruierten Fassung
Jacob Obrecht kam um 1457 in Gent zur Welt und zählt neben Josquin Desprez zu den bedeutendsten Renaissance-Komponisten der franko-flämischen Schule. Unter seinen mindestens 26 Messen findet sich auch die kunstvoll gestaltete Missa "Scaramella", der als Cantus firmus die italienische Melodie "Scaramella" zugrunde liegt. Erhalten hat sich dieses Werk nur in einem unvollständigen Satz von Stimmbüchern in der Biblioteka Jagielloñska in Krakau. Nun ist in Regensburg eine Rekonstruktion zu hören, aufgeführt vom britischen Binchois Consort unter der Leitung seines Gründers Andrew Kirkman. Außerdem sind mehrstimmige Scaramella-Versionen und weitere Werke von Josquin Desprez, Alexander Agricola, Antoine Brumel und anderen zu erleben.

Leitung: Andrew Kirkman
Jacob Obrecht: "Missa Scaramella"; "Mater Patris"; Antoine Brumel: "Philippe qui viedet me"; Josquin des Prez: "Scaramella"; Alexander Agricola: "Sancte Philippe apostole"; Fabrice Fitch: "Planctus David"; Loyset Compère: "Scaramella"
Aufnahme vom 18. Mai 2024

Anschließend:
Franz Schubert: Sonate D-Dur, D 850 (Alice Sara Ott, Klavier)

[Vox Humana]

It'll be interesting to hear how they have derived the missing parts.

For anyone really interested, there is an open access article about it here:

https://academic.oup.com/em/issue/51/4

[AuntDaisy]

For anyone really interested, there is an open access article about it here:
https://academic.oup.com/em/issue/51/4

Thanks Vox Humana.
It was lovely to hear Fabrice Fitch & Andrew Kirkman. Hannah French was an excellent interviewer.