The first of two programmes. Motets from the Middle Ages, when the archetypal lovers of the French pastourelle tradition were Robin and Marion - characters who in time embellished our own Robin Hood story and whose adventures were widely portrayed in music. Introduced by Wyndham Thomas. GOTHIC VOICES
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor) Leigh Nixon (tenor)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) directed by Christopher Page (lute/harp) anon Motets: L'autrejour/
Au tens pascour/In seculum;
Quant vient en mai/Ne sai que je die/Amoris;
Ne m'oubliez/Domino;
Par un matinee/Mellis stilla/ Domino;
En contre Ie tans/Quant fuellent/In odorem;
Clap, clap/Sus Robin/Tenor
Halle En mai/L'autre jour/He resvelle toi Robin; Bien met amours/Dame alegies/A Paris Lyric translations by TIM AND ANNE HEMMING Read by SUSAN SHARPE and BRIAN GEAR BBC Bristol
(Secondprogramme Thursday, 4.25pm)