About the only complaint that can be raised against this release by the Binchois Consort and director Andrew Kirkman relates to its title. Music for the King of Scots: Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV makes the album sound like a collection of bawdy songs, but it is the opposite; it is a collection of sacred music appearing in the so-called Carver Choirbook (also known as the Carvor Choirbook ) from Scotland and known to have been associated with the king. Part of the album's intention is to establish the central ...
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About the only complaint that can be raised against this release by the Binchois Consort and director Andrew Kirkman relates to its title. Music for the King of Scots: Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV makes the album sound like a collection of bawdy songs, but it is the opposite; it is a collection of sacred music appearing in the so-called Carver Choirbook (also known as the Carvor Choirbook ) from Scotland and known to have been associated with the king. Part of the album's intention is to establish the central Missa Horrendo subdenda rotarum machinamento, the anonymous "Subjected to the terrible machinery of wheels mass," which the performers dub the Catherine Wheel Mass, as a Scottish work; James IV was a devotee of St. Catherine of Alexandria, reputed to have died the horrible death that lent her name to the Catherine Wheel. It's a fascinating, stark work that, by the standards of 1460, around the time when it was composed, was old-fashioned, with long, gloomy duets, archaic...
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