Why do you care so much about what sort of keyboard Johan Sebastian Bach used to play on?
This fourth episode is devoted to the fifteenth-century Flemish composer Guillaume Dufay, but also to a work of art that is as mythical as it is mystical, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (1432, Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent) by the Van Eyck brothers. Catalina Vicens takes us on a journey of discovery of this timeless work and, more generally, the textual or figurative sources that point researchers and musicians to the way music was played before the eighteenth century and what the musical instruments used looked like.
CREDITS
guest Catalina Vicens, musician specialising in historical keyboard instruments
interview & editing Andrew Burn
production REMA
credits music
Platée, Act 1, Orage - Jean-Philippe Rameau
performed by Les Talens Lyriques, dir. Christophe Rousset
Camera Lucida 2014
All rights reserved - Courtesy of Les Talens Lyriques
design Doretta Rinaldi
original drawings Vincent Flückiger
cover score Folio, L'homme armé in the Mellon Chansonnier, around 1470 (Yale University Library, Beinecke MS 91)
music
Procurans Odium, Presul Nostri Temporis, Organum & Honte, Paour, Doubtance
performed by Catalina Vicens
Organic Creatures, Consouling Sounds 2020
Belle, bonne, sage, plaisante et gente - Baude Cordier
performed by Ensemble Servir Antico, Catalina Vicens
The City of Ladies, 2021
Concerto No. 7 in G Minor, BWV 1058: III. Allegro assai - Johann Sebastian Bach
performed by Evgeni Koroliov, Kammerakademie Potsdam
Concertos for piano, Alpha Classics 2019
Actus Tragicus - Sonatina
Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit in E-Flat Major, BWV 106 - Johann Sebastian Bach
performed by Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis
Actus Tragicus, Alpha Classics 2016
Ave regina celorum - Gilles Binchois
performed by La Reverdie
Lux Laetitiae, Arcana 2022
Lasse ! Comment - Se j'aim - Pour quoi me bat mes maris ?- Guillaume Dufay
performed by Crawford YoungFerrara Ensemble
Merci ou Mort, Arcana 2001
