Andrew Kirkman
Conductor and scholar Andrew Kirkman is best known as director of the small vocal group the Binchois Consort, which specializes in the music of composer Gilles Binchois and his era. Kirkman is also a noted educator and scholar, but his music-making has a broad general appeal that has landed several Binchois Consort recordings on British classical sales charts.
Kirkman was trained at the University of Durham, King's College of the University of London, and Princeton University. During this period, he developed a strong interest in the music of the early Renaissance. In 1995, he gathered a group of singers to perform Guillaume Dufay's Mass for St. Anthony of Padua on the feast day of that saint. The performance went well and the small group of six singers, plus Kirkman, were invited to record the then little-known mass for the prestigious Hyperion label. Then they were asked to make a second recording, of Dufay's Missa Sancti Jacobi, and that one earned recording-of-the-month honors from Britain's Gramophone magazine and snared the competitive Diapason d'Or award in France.
Kirkman and the Binchois Consort have gone on to make more than ten recordings for Hyperion, mostly focusing in early Renaissance England and the Low Countries, but ranging as far afield as music of the Polish Renaissance on a 2007 release. In recent years, Kirkman has steered the group toward recordings that represent the repertory of a specific historical place or situation, rather than toward recordings of core repertory for its own sake. The 2019 Binchois Consort release Music for St. Katherine of Alexandria, for example, examined music devoted to that saint, who had a strong cult following in England.
In the midst of this music-making activity, Kirkman is a professor at the University of Birmingham and serves as director of its Centre for Early Music Performance and Research.
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Discography
20 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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The Lily & the Rose: Adoration of the Virgin – Late Medieval English Music
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 27 jul. 2018
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Music for the King of Scots: Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 2 apr. 2021
24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo -
Music for the 100 Years' War (1337-1453)
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 31 mrt. 2017
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Music for St Katherine of Alexandria: 15th-Century English Music
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 31 mei 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Dufay: Music for St James the Greater
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 mei 1998
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dawn & Twilight: The First & Last Violin Sonatas of Cyril Scott
Andrew Kirkman, Clipper Erickson
Kamermuziek - Released by Affetto Recordings on 13 nov. 2015
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Busnois: Missa L'homme armé – Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus – Pullois: Flos de spina
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 okt. 2002
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dufay: Music for St Anthony of Padua
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 jul. 1996
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Marriage of England & Burgundy: Music for a 15th-Century State Occasion
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 okt. 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Josquin Des Prez & His Contemporaries
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 sep. 2001
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dufay & The Court of Savoy
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 jan. 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Music for Henry V & the House of Lancaster
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 30 aug. 2011
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dufay: Missa Puisque je vis & Other Works
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 jun. 2003
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Dufay: Mass for St Anthony Abbot
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 1 mrt. 2005
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Music for the King of Scots: Inside the Pleasure Palace of James IV
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 2 apr. 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Mendelssohn: Early Works for Piano & Strings
Christoph Hammer, Musica Raritana, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Affetto Recordings on 30 sep. 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Music for St Katherine of Alexandria: 15th-Century English Music
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 31 mei 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
The Lily & the Rose: Adoration of the Virgin – Late Medieval English Music
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 27 jul. 2018
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Music for the 100 Years' War (1337-1453)
The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
Klassiek - Released by Hyperion on 31 mrt. 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
A Renaissance Wedding Gift - Music of the Medici Codex of 1518
Rutgers Collegium Musicum, Andrew Kirkman
Koormuziek - Released by Centaur Records, Inc. on 1 jul. 2012
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo