Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5 / Metcalfe, Blue Heron
$21.99
Details
- Composer
- ANONYMOUS HUNT MASON STURMY
- Artist
- Blue Heron, Metcalfe
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Blue Heron Renaissance Choir
- Released
- Mar 17, 2017
- Catalog #
- BHCD1007
- UPC
- 602773488490
About
2018 Gramophone Magazine Early Music Award Winner
Volume 5 of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks contains the world premiere recording of a Mass by an anonymous English composer from the first half of the 16th century. Since the source of the cantus firmus has not been identified, the Mass remains without a name ("sine nomine"). The release also includes an antiphon addressed to St. Augustine of Canterbury which is the only surviving work of Hugh Sturmy, a short and dramatic Ave Maria mater dei by Robert Hunt, whose Stabat mater is a highlight of vol. 3 of the series, and the sonorous and captivating Ve nobis miseris by John Mason, for men's voices in five parts. This recording is part of a 5-release project which began in 2010.
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REVIEW:
The anonymously-composed Mass in particular is superb. Whoever wrote it almost certainly knew Taverner's Gloria tibi Trinitas, for echoes of it abound, yet it is no slavish imitation. For this piece alone the disc is worth owning. This is one of the discoveries of the year.
– Gramophone
Tracklist 8 tracks
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1 Exultet in hac die 03:31
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Exultet in hac die
- Duration
- 03:31
- Composer
- Hugh Sturmy
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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2 Ave Maria mater dei 04:40
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Ave Maria mater dei
- Duration
- 04:40
- Composer
- Robert Hunt
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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3 Ve nobis miseris 12:46
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Ve nobis miseris
- Duration
- 12:46
- Composer
- John Mason
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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4 Kyrie Orbis factor 02:10
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Kyrie Orbis factor
- Duration
- 02:10
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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5 Gloria 07:42
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Gloria
- Duration
- 07:42
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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6 Credo 07:34
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Credo
- Duration
- 07:34
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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7 Sanctus 09:05
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Sanctus
- Duration
- 09:05
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe
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8 Agnus dei 08:02
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Agnus dei
- Duration
- 08:02
- Composer
- Anonymous
- Ensemble
- Blue Heron
- Conductor
- Scott Metcalfe