A must-have for any serious collector of early choral music, this is a 5-CD set of the complete music from Blue Heron's groundbreaking, long-term Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks project (2010-2017). The package includes a new 84-page booklet with thousands of words on the works and history by Dr. Nick Sandon, as well as essays by Scott Metcalfe on performance practice, all illustrated with gorgeous color pictures. Complete texts and translations for the complete set are compiled in the single booklet, as well. The discs and booklet come housed in an attractive, early-to open box.
The set includes mostly world premiere recordings and features masses by Nicholas Ludford, antiphons by Hugh Aston and Richard Pygott, the complete surviving works of Robert Jones, and the gifted though previously completely unknown composers Hugh Sturmy and Robert Hunt, and all but one of the surviving works of John Mason. The missing tenor parts have been supplied by Nick Sandon, who has dedicated much of his professional life to the Peterhouse partbooks, which were copied for Canterbury Cathedral in 1540 and are now named for the college currently housing them, Peterhouse Cambridge.
Includes unlimited streaming of The Lost Music of Canterbury (Boxed Set)
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Ave cujus conceptio, Solemni plena gaudio, Celestia terrestria
Nova replet letitia.
Ave cujus nativitas Nostra fuit solemnitas, Ut lucifer lux oriens Ipsum solem preveniens.
Ave pia humilitas, Sine viro fecunditas, Cujus annuntiatio Nostra fuit redemptio.
Ave vera virginitas, Immaculata castitas, Cujus purificatio Nostra fuit purgatio.
Ave plena in omnibus Angelicis virtutibus, Cujus fuit assumptio Nostra glorificatio.
Hail, thou whose Conception, filled with devout joy,
makes heaven and earth replete with a new gladness.
Hail, thou whose Nativity
was our celebration,
like the morning star, a dawning light preceding the sun itself.
Hail, thou humble obedience, fertility without man’s intervention, whose Annunciation
was our redemption.
Hail, thou true virginity, spotless chastity, whose Purification
was our purgation.
Hail, thou filled with all angelic virtues,
whose Assumption was our glorification.
Engineering & mastering: Joel Gordon
Producer: Eric Milnes
Editing: Eric Milnes & Joel Gordon
Cover photo: Trillium erectum (Image copyright Georgianna Lane / Garden Photo World / Corbis)
Graphic design: Melanie Germond
Recorded at Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, October 2013
Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue
Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations....more
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