Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Vol. 2 / Metcalfe, Blue Heron

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Label
Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
Release Date
May 3, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Johannes Ockeghem
    • PERFORMER
      Blue Heron
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 03, 2024
    • UPC
      645312499656
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BHCD1013
    • LABEL
      Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Prenez sur moi votre exemple amoureux

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    2. Tant fuz gentement resjouy

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    3. Ung aultre l'a, n'en querés plus

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Sophie Michaux, Jason McStoots

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    4. Baisiés moy dont fort, ma maistresse

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    5. Pour prison ne pour maladie

      Composer: Gilles de Bins dit Binchois

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Sophie Michaux

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    6. La despourveue et la bannye

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Sophie Michaux

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    7. L'autre d'antan, l'autrier passa

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    8. Ma bouche rit et ma pensée pleure

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Sophie Michaux, Jason McStoots

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    9. Presque transi, ung peu mains qu'estre mort

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    10. Les desléaux ont la saison

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Reginald L. Mobley, Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    11. Je n'ay dueil que je ne suis morte

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    12. J'en ay dueil (arr. for chamber ensemble)

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Dark Horse Consort

    13. Il ne m'en chault plus de nul ame

      Composer: Johannes Ockeghem

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Kim Leeds, Aaron Sheehan

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    14. Qu'es mi vida preguntays

      Composer: Johannes Cornago

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe

    15. Qu'es mi vida preguntays (arr. J. Ockeghem)

      Composer: Johannes Cornago

      Ensemble: Blue Heron

      Performer: Sophie Michaux

      Conductor: Scott Metcalfe


Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1420-1497) was one of the most celebrated musicians of the fifteenth century and one of the greatest composers of all time. He was every bit the equal of J.S. Bach in contrapuntal technique and profound expressivity, and like Bach able to combine the most rigorous intellectual structure with a beguiling sensuality. His two dozen songs set French lyric poetry in the courtly forms of his era—rondeau, virelai, and ballade—to exquisitely crafted polyphony in which all voices are granted equally beautiful and compelling melodies.

This CD is the companion to Blue Heron’s 2019 release, Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Volume 1, which was named to the Bestenliste of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik and acclaimed in Gramophone as “performances of absolute clarity, beautifully in tune, beautifully balanced and beautifully recorded”; Early Music enthused that “the Boston-based ensemble is at its finest—a summit quite sublime.… The group’s extraordinary rapport with the music is evident everywhere in the recording; each melodic line is not only clear and precise but also imbued with obvious affection.”

Besides twelve of Ockeghem’s songs, the disc includes two related works (Gilles Binchois’s Pour prison, quoted by Ockeghem in his song La despourveue, and Johannes Cornago’s Qu’es mi vida, arranged by Ockeghem) and an anonymous instrumental arrangement of Ockeghem’s Je n’ay dueil. The CD booklet contains complete texts and translations, and notes by music historian Sean Gallagher and Blue Heron’s artistic director, Scott Metcalfe.