…early 16th century: Hugh Aston, Robert Jones, and John Mason. More info > Buy Now (Amazon) > Hear it on Apple Music > Guillaume Du Fay: Motets, hymns, chansons, Sanctus Papale Blue Heron’s debut CD, released in 2007, offers an entrancing selection of music by the greatest composer of the 15th century. More info > Buy Now (Amazon) > Hear it on Apple Music > CD Booklet downloads: BHCD1001 (Guillaume Du Fay) BHCD1002 (Aston/Mason/Jones) BHCD1003 (Lu…
…enice, 1542). This landmark book of twenty madrigals, many of which set sonnets by Petrarch, changed the course of music history, transforming the madrigal from a light form derived from the chanson into a serious genre that combined sensitivity to the poetry with elaborate polyphony. In 2016, the prestigious Noah Greenberg Award was given to Blue Heron and Jessie Ann Owens (UC Davis) to support a world premiere recording of the book. The two-disc…
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…Guillaume Du Fay: Motets, hymns, chansons, Sanctus Papale Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Blue Heron’s debut CD offers an entrancing selection of music by the greatest composer of the 15th century, Guillaume Du Fay (c.1397-1474). The program includes three isorhythmic motets (Apostolo glorioso, Rite majorem Jacobum canamus, and Ecclesie militantis), the glorious, large-scale Sanctus “Papale” in its first recording in three decades, two hymns w…
…for Canterbury is strengthened by the existence of a highly relevant human link between the cathedral and Magdalen College in the person of Thomas Bull. Between Michaelmas 1528 and Michaelmas 1539 Bull was a lay-clerk in the choir of Magdalen College; when he next appears, in the summer of 1540, it is as a lay-clerk of Canterbury Cathedral. During his time at Magdalen, moreover, Bull often received extra payments for copying music. In Bull, theref…
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…6th Century in Quebec Collections” (September 5, 2018 to January 6, 2019). Link to exhibition information. The program will be presented in Montreal on September 27. Books of hours offered the laity a way to experience a devotional practice similar to that of the monastic orders. They are largely centered on devotion to Mary and contain a calendar, the Little Office or Hours of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a selection of psalms, Marian antiphons, a Li…
…Anonymous: Missa sine nomine Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Volume 5 Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Anonymous (early 16th c.): Missa sine nomine Sarum plainchant · Kyrie Orbis factor Hugh Sturmy (early 16th c.): Exultet in hac die Robert Hunt (early 16th c.): Ave Maria mater dei John Mason (c.1480-1548): Ve nobis miseris Restored by Nick Sandon The 2018 winner of the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music — the fir…
A 14th-Century Salmagundi Buy now (Amazon Music) Buy now (Bandcamp) A 14th-Century Salmagundi (digital album) Salmagundi: a savory dish composed of chopped meats, seafood, eggs, vegetables, and condiments; a mixture or hodgepodge; an assemblage of miscellaneous components. Blue Heron’s Salmagundi is a pleasing miscellany of music composed c. 1300-1400, a delightful salad of ingredients gathered from our storehouse of French and Italian songs, in…
…Aston: Three Marian Antiphons Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 1 Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Hugh Aston (c.1485-1558): Three Marian Antiphons Robert Jones (fl. c.1520-1535): Magnificat John Mason (c.1480-1548): Quales sumus O miseri Restored by Nick Sandon Blue Heron’s second CD presents superb music by three English composers of the early 16th century: Hugh Aston, Robert Jones, and John Mason. Although their music is gorgeous an…
Blue Heron is engaged in the exploration of Renaissance and medieval vocal music, putting the study of original sources in the service of vivid live performance. Widely regarded as the finest ensemble of its type in North America, Blue Heron presents a subscription series in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a catalog of exceptional recordings is available on the Blue Heron label. The ensemble’s accolades include the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, making Blue Heron the first group from outside Europe to receive the award; the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society; and the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik. Touring engagements have taken the group across the United States as well as to Canada and England. Blue Heron is early music for the 21st century.
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