The Early Music Show

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Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Bakfark's World

Bakfark's World

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Bakfark's World

Lucie Skeaping and Jacob Heringman discuss C16th lutenist and composer Valentin Bakfark.

Lucie Skeaping and Jacob Heringman discuss C16th lutenist and composer Valentin Bakfark, the most celebrated player of his time, not only in his native Hungary but across Europe.

Lucie Skeaping talks to Jacob Heringman about the 16th-century lutenist and composer Valentin Bakfark, who was the most celebrated player of his time, whose fame reached beyond his native Hungary into the rest of Europe. Apart from learning about his demanding pieces, full of technical difficulties, we also hone in on the different types of music written for the lute at the time: ordinary dances, free-styled fantasias, and intabulations or arrangements for the lute of choral pieces, both sacred and secular in a time when vocal music was at its prime.

Valentin Bakfark
Fantasia a 3
Jacob Heringman, lute
Discipline Global Mobile DGM9906 

Valentin Bakfark
Fantasia No. 6
Daniel Benko, lute 
Hungaroton ‎SLPX 11893

Valentin Bakfark
Non Dite Mai (Gagliarda) Und Passamezzo
Benko Consort
Teldec 8.44016

Thomas Crecquillon
Ung gay bergier
Clement Janequin Ensemble
Dominique Visse
HMC 901174 

Thomas Crecquillon
Ung gay bergier
Jacob Heringman, lute 
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Josquin des Prez   
Faulte d’argent
I Fagiolini 
Concordia
Robert Hollingworth
Metronome MET CD 1012 

Josquin des Prez   
Faulte d’argent
Jacob Heringman, lute
Discipline Global Mobile DGM 0006 

Clemens Non Papa
Erravi sicut ovis
The Brabant Ensemble,
Stephen Rice 
Hyperion CDA67848 

Clemens Non Papa
Erravi sicut ovis
Jacob Heringman, lute 
Discipline Global Mobile DGM9906 

Clemens Non Papa
Fantasia X super ‘Rossignolet’ a 4
Daniel Benko, lute 
Hungaroton HCD 12771-2 

Anon.
Tanze aus dem 'Vietorisz' Manuskript
Benko Consort 
Teldec 8.44016 

Josquin des Prez
La deploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem (Nimphes des bois)
The Hilliard Ensemble
EMI CDC7492092

Valentin Bakfark
Fantasia No. 7 
Daniel Benko, lute

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