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.
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From "Music From the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 1: Three Marian Antiphons", released March 13, 2010.
Music composed by Hugh Aston (c.1585-1558), edited and completed by Nick Sandon. Published by Antico Edition (www.anticoedition.co.uk). Used with permission.
lyrics
Ave Maria, ancilla trinitatis humillima.
Ave Maria, preelecta dei patris filia sublimissima.
Ave Maria, sponsa spiritus sancti amabilissima.
Ave Maria, mater domini nostri Jesu Christi dignissima.
Ave Maria, soror angelorum pulcherrima.
Ave Maria, promissa prophetarum desideratissima.
Ave Maria, regina patriarcharum gloriosissima.
Ave Maria, magistra evangelistarum veracissima.
Ave Maria, doctrix apostolorum sapientissima.
Ave Maria, confortatrix martyrum validissima.
Ave Maria, fons et plenitudo confessorum suavissima.
Ave Maria, honor et festivitas virginum jocundissima.
Ave Maria, consolatrix vivorum et mortuorum promptissima.
Mecum sis in omnibus tribulationibus et angustiis meis materna pietate, et in hora mortis mee suscipe animam meam et offer illam dulcissimo filio tuo Jesu, cum omnibus qui se nostris commendaverunt orationibus. Amen.
Hail, Mary, most humble handmaid of the Trinity.
Hail, Mary, most exalted chosen daughter of God the Father.
Hail, Mary, most loving bride of the Holy Spirit.
Hail, Mary, most worthy mother of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hail, Mary, most comely sister of the angels.
Hail, Mary, most longed-for promise of the prophets.
Hail, Mary, most glorious queen of the patriarchs.
Hail, Mary, most truthful lady of the evangelists.
Hail, Mary, most wise teacher of the apostles.
Hail, Mary, most potent comforter of martyrs.
Hail, Mary, sweetest fount and source of plenty for confessors.
Hail, Mary, most joyful reward and object of celebration for virgins.
Hail, Mary, most ready consoler of living and dead.
Be with me in all my troubles and perils with your motherly affection, and in the hour of my death receive my soul and present it to your most sweet son Jesus, together with all who have commended themselves to our prayers. Amen.
credits
from The Lost Music of Canterbury (Boxed Set),
released October 19, 2018
Engineering and mastering: Joel Gordon
Producer: Eric Milnes
Editing: Eric Milnes, Joel Gordon & David Corcoran
Graphic design: Pete Goldlust
Cover photo: Radius Images
Recorded at Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
September 2009
From "Music From the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 1: Three Marian Antiphons", released March 13, 2010.
Music composed by Hugh Aston (c.1585-1558), edited and completed by Nick Sandon. Published by Antico Edition (www.anticoedition.co.uk). Used with permission.
Singers: Noël Bisson, Lydia Brotherton, Brenna Wells, Jennifer Ashe, Martin Near, Allen Combs, Jason McStoots, Aaron Sheehan, Mark Sprinkle, Cameron Beauchamp, Glenn Billingsley, Paul Guttry
Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue
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