Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria

A poignant, poetic evocation of the conjectural life and death of Saint Katherine: there is a natural sympathy between The Binchois Consort’s programme and the accompanying illustrations of alabaster from the fifteenth and twenty-first centuries.

CDA68274  66 minutes 13 seconds
‘Dunstaple’s Salve scema sanctitatis closes the disc in show-stopping style … it made me wish that there had been just a bit more four-voice music, in fact. A welcome feature is the couple of tra ...
BBC Music Magazine
‘English composers living at the beginning of the fifteenth century … writing modern music, and if you listen to it with those ears you realize how wonderful it is. But you also realize what the ...