…o > Buy Now (Bandcamp) > Nicholas Ludford Missa Inclina cor meum The third installment in Blue Heron’s 5-CD series of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks features the complete Mass plus an antiphon by John Mason. Release Date: October 1, 2013. More info > Buy Now (Amazon) > Buy Now (Bandcamp) > Nicholas Ludford Missa Regnum mundi The second installment in Blue Heron’s 5-CD series of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, released in 2012, features t…
…possible through Sandon’s ministrations. Among the high points of previous installments are three antiphons by Hugh Aston (Vol 1), Nicholas Ludford’s Missa Regnum mundi and a Salve regina by Richard Pygott (Vol 2). Those names will be familiar to aficionados of this repertory, but here the focus is on figures who are either really obscure or actually nameless. Don’t let that put you off: the Mass in particular is superb. Whoever wrote it almost ce…
…in “Specific information” on p. 127. ^back 7 The Cathedral of Cambrai, for instance, permitted only all-vocal performance in the period 1475-1550, according to Craig Wright, “Performance practices at the Cathedral of Cambrai 1475-1550,” Musical quarterly lxiv (1978), pp. 295-328; on the other hand, English musicians at the Council of Constance in 1416 sang Vespers “with organs and prosunen [slide-trumpets] above which were tenor, discant and mediu…
…nd, involving melodic gawkiness or idiosyncratic dissonance treatment, for instance—the more there is to assimilate and copy. The hardest music to restore with conviction is that which is incoherent and lacking in personality: it can be completed in virtually countless ways, none of which may seem strongly preferable to any other. It is also considerably more difficult to complete a piece lacking two voices than it is to complete one lacking a sin…
…this has always been rare in performances of 15th-century song and it pays instant dividends. Innumerable unfamiliar details come out of these performances … these are performances of absolute clarity, beautifully in tune, beautifully balanced and beautifully recorded.… A major new step in the enjoyment of 15th-century song.” – Gramophone “With this recording, part of an ambitiously planned Ockeghem project, the Boston-based vocal ensemble Blue He…
…IT professor Tod Machover entitled Vocal Vibrations, which was featured at installations at Le Laboratoire Paris and Le Laboratoire Cambridge. Its later repertoire also includes Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, performed in its original scoring with Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry, and Le Cantiques des Cantiques for twelve voices by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, composed in 1952. In 2019-20 Blue Heron will return to the Daniel-Lesur on a program that will…
…idge, Congregational 11 Garden Street, Cambridge View the program The next installment in our complete Ockeghem cycle features his Missa quinti toni for three voices, the motet Alma redemptoris mater, and a handful of songs, as well as a motet by Johannes Regis and a song by Antoine Busnoys. Free pre-concert talk by Sean Gallagher (New England Conservatory) 45 minutes prior to each performance. Doors and box office open 1 hour prior to each perfor…
…Congregational 11 Garden Street (Next to the Sheraton Commander) The fifth installment of the complete works of Johannes Ockeghem, featuring one of the composer’s earliest masses, inspired by an anonymous English mass on the same plainchant melody, but utterly transformed by the Flemish genius. The program will include a movement from the English Missa Caput and other music by mid 15th-century English composers such as Robert Morton and Walter Fry…
…rking spaces on Garden Street in front of the church. Remember that use of these spaces requires a disability plate or placard. Wheelchair access is at the 11 Garden Street entrance (glass door) near the playground through the gate on the north side of the church. The church has recently installed a push-button automatic door opener there. First Church allows Blue Heron access to its assisted listening devices. Just ask an usher, once you have ent…
…cise and fluid, immaculate and alive” Alex Ross, The New Yorker The fourth installment in Blue Heron’s 5-CD series of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks contains the world premiere recording of the only surviving Mass of Robert Jones (fl.1520-1535), who was employed in the royal chapel during the reign of Henry VIII. Lyrical and mellifluous, the mass is a mature work, revealing a Master composer at the height of his power. The completely unknown…
…ined with other materials into two related compositions used in two public installations in Paris and Cambridge. “Chapel Music” is for collective listening in an open space, and “Cocoon Music” is for individual experience in a specially-designed chair. Visitors may participate while holding an ORB that allows them to “experience their voices as tangible patterns of vibration.” The exhibition at Le Laboratoire in Paris ran from March 28 to Septembe…
…ober 16, 2010 at 8 pm First Church in Cambridge, Congregational The latest installment in our series of music from the Peterhouse partbooks, copied c. 1540 for Canterbury Cathedral, this concert features the North American premiere of a radiant mass by Nicholas Ludford, presented in a program reflecting the works possible original context, a festal mass in honor of the patron saint of Ludford’s parish church, St Margaret’s, Westminster. The progra…
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