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Gaude virgo mater Christi

from The Lost Music of Canterbury (Boxed Set) by Blue Heron

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    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) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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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 by Nick Sandon. Published by Antico Edition (www.anticoedition.co.uk). Used with permission.

lyrics

Gaude virgo mater Christi
que per aurem concepisti
Gabriele nuncio.
Gaude, quia Deo plena
peperisti sine pena
cum pudoris lilio.
Gaude, quia tui nati
quem dolebas mortem pati
fulget resurrectio.
Gaude Christo ascendente
et in celo te vidente
motu fertur proprio.
Gaude, quod post ipsum scandis
et est honor tibi grandis
in celi palatio,
Ubi fructus ventris tui
per te detur nobis frui
in perhenni gaudio.
O Maria virgo mater redemptoris nostri:
O Maria virgo nobilissima que jam regnas cum angelis,
coronata in gloria: ibi nostri memor esto.
O virgo sanctissima, funde preces tu pro nobis
ut possimus illic tuo sociari collegio. Amen.

Rejoice, O virgin mother of Christ,
who conceived through the ear
by the message of Gabriel.
Rejoice, for being filled with God
you brought forth without travail,
with the lily of chastity.
Rejoice, for there shines forth
the resurrection of your son,
whom you saw suffer death.
Rejoice, Christ having ascended,
and your having seen him in heaven,
moved, it is said, by his own will.
Rejoice, for after this you ascended,
and great honor is paid to you
in the palace of heaven,
Where the fruit of your womb
through you is given to us to enjoy
in everlasting felicity.
O Mary, virgin mother of our savior,
O Mary, most noble virgin who now reigns with the angels,
crowned in glory: be mindful of us there.
O most holy virgin, pour out your prayers for us,
so that we may be able to join your company in that place. 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 by Nick Sandon. Published by Antico Edition (www.anticoedition.co.uk). Used with permission.

Singers: Noël Bisson, Teresa Wakim, Brenna Wells, Pamela Dellal, Martin Near, Michael Barrett, Allen Combs, Jason McStoots, Mark Sprinkle, Sumner Thompson, Cameron Beauchamp, Paul Guttry

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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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