Andrew Kirkman
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A fascinating musical account of the English court from the late 14th century onwards. The Binchois Consort is on stellar form. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Early Music
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Music for Henry V and the House of Lancaster
The English cyclic Mass Quem malignus spiritus and ceremonial motets for fifteenth-century princely chapels
Richard Butler (tenor), Christopher Watson (tenor), Timothy Travers-Brown (countertenor)
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
The is a magical and moving chance to hear music directly from the circle of Henry V and his son Henry VI...It would be difficult to imagine more tuneful, exacting interpretations of some of... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Music For the King of Scots - Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV
Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Andrew Kirkman offers yet another casket of rediscovered musical gems...The main work here is the Missa Horrendo (the ‘Catherine Wheel Mass’). Its endlessly unfolding melodic contours are challenging... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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It remains only to say that the solo male voices of The Binchois Consort are at the top of their form and that the presentation (with booklet material by Fitch and Andrew Kirkman) meets Hyperion’s... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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There is no denying the beauty of the performances here. Kirkman’s group … pour forth a golden stream of polyphonic textures captured in close and careful sound —
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Dufay & the Court of Savoy
Missa Se la face ay pale and other works
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Half a dozen recordings of Dufay's Missa Se la face are available but Kirkman's sweeps the board. …he employs just one singer per part, creating performances of great clarity, pliancy and historical... —
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The Binchois Consort finally turn their attentions to the composer whose name they bear.
The contrast between Dufay and Binchois is every bit as striking in sacred music as in the secular. Binchois's... — -
Theirs is a music-making with all sense of ‘self' expunged – the words suavely transmitted rather than interpreted. —
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Thankfully, the scholars have more sense than to draw precise parallels between any particular piece of music and a particular sculpture…the six adult male singers of The Binchois Consort under... —
