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 John Mason (c.1480-1548), edited and completed by Nick Sandon. Published by Antico Edition (www.anticoedition.co.uk). Used with permission.
lyrics
Quales sumus, O miseri,
properantes ad portas inferi,
quatriduani fetentes,
ut te laudare presumamus,
O Maria, cum sciamus
non audiri delinquentes?
Sed in arcto constituti,
in labore lateris et luti,
insudantes gemiscimus.
Consolatricem miserorum
et refectricem laborum,
te deposcimus
ut oculos misericordes
ad nos convertas et sordes
peccatorum amoveas,
scelerumque soluto vecte,
Jesum sequentes recte
vermiculos ne despicias.
Israel celum non respicit,
nam terrena pulvis perficit;
hinc desperans confunditur.
Quare pro nobis deprecare
ad hunc qui lapides mutare
in Abraham filios dicitur
ut Israel oculos erigat
ad celum et deum sitiat
sicut cervus aquarum fontes,
ut, de Pharaonis imperio
erepti tandem durissimo,
mare transeamus insontes.
Et, licet hostes seviant,
hos maria non operiant,
[lacuna] O domina,
sed sevitiam removeant,
ut ereptos hos deleant
claustra tunc infernalia.
Et sic, virtutibus fecundi,
ad celestia mente mundi
properemus, O Maria,
ut post finem vite, jocundi
Christo juncti, letabundi
una cantemus alleluia.
What are we, O wretches,
hurrying to the gates of hell,
stinking within four days,
that we dare to praise you,
O Mary, since we know
that offenders are not fit to be heard?
But, closely confined,
toiling with bricks and clay,
sweating, we groan.
We beg you, the comforter
of the wretched
and refresher of labors,
That you will turn your merciful eyes
towards us and remove
the stains of sinners,
and not despise the worms
rightly following Jesus
when the bolt of sins has been shot.
Israel does not look towards heaven,
and (since dust is the fate of earthly things),
it is thrown into despair.
Intercede therefore for us
with him who is said to turn stones
into sons of Abraham,
So that Israel may raise her eyes
to heaven and thirst for God
“as the hart pants after the water-brooks,”
and so that we, snatched at last
from the most cruel tyranny of Pharaoh,
may cross the sea without harm.
And, although enemies rage,
let the seas not conceal them,
[lacuna] O Lady,
but wash away their fury,
so that then the confines of hell
may destroy these plunderers.
And thus, rich in virtue,
may we hasten to heaven
with a pure mind, O Mary,
so that after life’s end,
happily united with Christ,
as one we may sing “Alleluia.”
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 John Mason (c.1480-1548), edited and completed by Nick Sandon. Published by Antico Edition (www.anticoedition.co.uk). Used with permission.
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