Composer of the Week: Dufay: Marking the Event

Donald Macleod and music researcher William Lyons recount how Renaissance composer Guillaume Dufay found work at the Court of Savoy, an important centre of culture, and wrote some exceptional music for the coronation of Pope Eugenius IV. Ballade: Se la face ay pale. Cut Circle, director Jesse Rodin. Flos Florum. Ensemble Musica Nova, director Lucien Kandel. Ecclesiae militantis. Blue Heron, director Scott Metcalfe. Balsamus et munda cera. Huelgas Ensemble, director Paul van Nevel. Supremum est mortalibus bonum. Cantica Symphonia, director Giuseppe Maletto. Ave Maris Stella. Ensemble Musica Nova, director Lucien Kandel. L'alta tua bellezza. Cantica Symphonia, director Giuseppe Maletto. Salve flos Tusce gentis. Ensemble Musica Nova, director Lucien Kandel