Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs Volume 1 For Your Consideration Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Complete Songs, Volume 1 This is the first disc of a 2-CD set that will include all of Ockeghem’s songs; the second is planned for release in 2022. The songs have not been recorded complete since the early 1980s. Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497) was one of the most celebrated musicians of the fifteenth century and…
Cipriano de Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci 2-CD set Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Cipriano de Rore (1515/16-1565): I madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1542) The first release of new material from Blue Heron since winning the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, this two-disc set is the world-premiere recording of Cipriano de Rore’s landmark first book of madrigals for five voices. The set includes all twenty madrigals in D…
…he Lost Music of Canterbury Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks (5-CD set) Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Restored by Nick Sandon The 5-CD boxed set The Lost Music of Canterbury: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks is the capstone of a landmark project of international musical significance which presents extraordinary music from the last generation of medieval Catholicism in England. Judged by this music, Catholic culture remained vital and c…
…Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Volume 2 Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Nicholas Ludford (c.1490-1557): Missa Regnum mundi Sarum plainchant · Proper for the Feast of Saint Margaret Richard Pygott (c.1485-1549): Salve regina Restored by Nick Sandon The second installment in Blue Heron’s 5-CD series of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks features Nicholas Ludford’s radiant Missa Regnum mundi, sung in a musical…
…ford: Missa Inclina cor meum Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Volume 3 Buy Now (Amazon) Buy Now (Bandcamp) Nicholas Ludford (c.1490-1557): Missa Inclina cor meum Sarum plainchant · Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor John Mason (c.1480-1548): Ave fuit prima salus Restored by Nick Sandon The third installment in Blue Heron’s 5-CD series of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks features Nicholas Ludford’s Missa Inclina cor meum. The disc opens with John Ma…
Christmas in Medieval England Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Sarum plainchant Angelus ad virginem Gabriel fram Heven-King Carols: Hayl Mary, Ther is no rose of swych vertu, Nowel: Owt of your slepe aryse, Ecce quod natura, Ave rex angelorum, Nowel syng we bothe al and som, Nova, Nova! Ave fit ex Eva John Dunstaple (d. 1453): Gaude virgo Leonel Power (d. 1445): Gloria, Ibo michi ad montem mirre Anonymous (English, c. 1440): Missa Veterem Homi…
John Taverner (c.1490-1545): Dum transisset sabbatum (II) Buy Now (Amazon Music) Buy Now (Bandcamp) This digital-only single features the second setting of the Easter respond Dum transisset sabbatum by John Taverner (c.1490-1545). Like the music recorded on Blue Heron’s 5-CD series Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, this is a gorgeous work from the golden age of pre-Reformation English cathedral music. (Much music from the period has been lost….
…ert Jones: Missa Spes nostra Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Volume 4 Buy now (Amazon) Buy now (Bandcamp) Robert Jones (fl. c. 1520-1535): Missa Spes nostra Sarum plainchant · Kyrie Deus creator omnium Nicholas Ludford (c. 1490-1557): Ave cujus conceptio Robert Hunt (early 16th c.): Stabat Mater Restored by Nick Sandon “As on previous releases, the singing is both precise and fluid, immaculate and alive” Alex Ross, The New Yorker The fourth i…
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…rough the air. “Most heartily recommended” Hugh Keyte, Early Music Review (UK) | September 1, 2015 Ludford’s Marian votive antiphon Ave cujus conceptio is pure joy and a major discovery. I would fully endorse Sandon’s claim that Ludford [is] ‘a highly individual, imaginative, resourceful and polished composer, fit to be ranked alongside Taverner’ – high praise! The choir does Ludford ample justice, dipping and soaring effortlessly in his long-draw…
…16, 2011 The ever more popular Renaissance choir Blue Heron was joined by UK-based Ensemble Plus Ultra for a stellar performance on Saturday, October 15th … There was a glorious match of sound between the two ensembles, and Browne’s constantly shifting textures were executed seamlessly, largely due to Metcalfe’s conducting. His sense of timing was refined and elegant. Never wallowing excessively in the sonorities, he allowed momentum to interpola…
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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