Guillaume Dufay

This week on Harmonia, music from the Carvor Choirbook, the largest surviving collection of Scottish sacred polyphony from the sixteenth century. The music is ornate and demanding, implying that they had some very fine singers back then - and luckily for us, we still do.

The 8th century hymn Ave maris stella--Hail! Star of the Sea--is one of the best-known examples of Marian chant, and we’ll hear some captivating settings of it this hour.