Blue Heron’s 23rd Subscription Season

All season concerts will now be available in person AND online!

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Spotlight Sessions

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A 14th-Century Salmagundi

Now available on physical CD.

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Christmas in Baroque Germany

December 17-18, 2021

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OCKEGHEM SONGS VOLUME I

“. . .these neglected chansons take on a hitherto unsuspected radiance that touches heart and mind alike.” Bestenliste, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (January 2020)

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Cipriano de Rore, Madrigals for five voices (1542): WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING

“. . .masterfully, sensitively done, and most highly recommended.” – Early Music America (June 2020)

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Blue Heron has been featured in
WBUR’s Fall Classical Music Guide!

Don’t miss our first in-person concert this season:

Ockeghem@600: Missa Quinti Toni
Friday, October 15, 2021 at 8:00 PM
Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 2:30PM

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Free pre-concert talk by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) 45 minutes prior to each performance.

All concerts this season will be recorded and presented online a week after the live performances. You may purchase a online-only ticket, or your in-person ticket will also include virtual access.

Concerts in the 2021-22 season will be presented without an intermission and last approximately one hour. The musicians will be unmasked during the performance; masks are required for all audience, staff, and volunteers. All performers, staff, and volunteers are fully vaccinated.

Je n’ay dueil que je ne suis morte
Johannes Ockeghem (c.1421-1497)

Margot Rood, Kim Leeds, Sumner Thompson, Paul Guttry, voices

Video by Kathy Wittman | Ball Square Films
Audio by Philip H. Davis, Cape Ann Recordings

COVID-19 Safety Policy

In light of recent developments with COVID-19 variants, Blue Heron is establishing safety protocols for the protection of everyone attending our concerts this season. Click here for the most up-to-date policy information.

We are so excited to see you all again in person, and we thank you in advance for your flexibility as we do what we can to keep you and our musicians safe!

Blue Heron’s 2021-2022 Season

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All 2021-2022 concerts will now be available in-person AND online!

October 15 & 16, 2021
Ockeghem@600 Concert 10: Missa quinti toni

December 17 & 18, 2021
Christmas in Baroque Germany: Praetorius, Scheidt, Schein & others
With Dark Horse Consort

February 12, 2022
Un petrarchino cantato: A musical valentine of 16th-century madrigals

March 18 & 19, 2022
Ockeghem@600 Concert 11: Missa sine nomine a 5

April 22 & 23, 2022
Many Voices: Obrecht, Aleotti, Daniel-Lesur, Sanlıkol & Allen

Spotlight Sessions

In-depth explorations of topics related to our 2021-2022 programs. Presented online only, Wednesdays 7:00-8:30 PM.

November 17, 2021
Anne Stone (CUNY): Guillaume de Machaut’s multimedia Remede de Fortune. Celebrating the release of our CD of the Remede.

January 26, 2022
Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory): French art song, c. 1380-1500.

March 30, 2022
Mehmet Ali Sanlıkol (New England Conservatory): Introduction to Devran




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This highly important [Peterhouse recording] project, one of the most important early choral projects of our time, has unearthed a series of masterly composers hitherto virtually unknown...Such is the authority of Scott Metcalfe and his singers with this repertoire that they negotiate even the most daringly challenging and unexpected passages with utter confidence, and, as previously, with a delicious blend of expressiveness and seemingly inexorable forward momentum.

D. James Ross, Early Music Review (UK)
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a revelation - fresh, dynamic and vibrant...urgent and wondrous music-making of the highest order

Damian Fowler, Gramophone (UK)
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fine gradations of dynamics; pungent diction; telling contrasts of ethereal and earthly timbres; tempos that are more lusty than languid; a way of propelling a phrase toward a goal. ... The singing is both precise and fluid, immaculate and alive...

Alex Ross, The New Yorker
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A listener then would have been lucky to hear these works brought off with such panache. The program is by turns pensive and lively, and the scholarship required to evoke stylistic accuracy is put totally at the service of performance.

David Allen, The New York Times
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I feel privileged to be able to revel in such a subtle shaped set of performances... This is the kind of recording that makes you sit up and pay attention.. There is plenty that is memorable here, and always the anticipation of something juicy to relish just around the corner. You can't ask much more than that from a CD.

Dominy Clements, MusicWeb International
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The earthy sensuousness of Blue Heron's singing coupled with the curatorial care behind its programming have clearly earned the trust of audiences

Jeremy Eichler, The Boston Globe
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But Blue Heron’s devotion to this repertory — the ensemble has recorded five albums of music from the Peterhouse Partbooks — is not justified only by its rarity. This is vivid and radiant music. ...
... With two or three singers to a part and women stepping into the shoes of boy choristers, Blue Heron brings a zesty and sensual sound to these works of devotional music.

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, The New York Times