Thirteenth Season 2011-2012
Upcoming Concerts
Song of Songs / Songs of love
A revival of our tremendously popular program of 16th-century Spanish love songs and motets on texts
from the Song of Songs
Thursday, June 7 · 8 p.m.
Berkeley Festival & Exhibition - a Blue Heron debut!
Berkeley, CA
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Saturday, June 9 · 8 p.m. - Cambridge
Sunday, June 10 · 4 p.m. - New York City, NY
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FREE PARKING for Cambridge concerts!
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CD RELEASE!
Nicholas Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi
Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Volume 2
Nicholas Ludford (c1490-1557): Missa Regnum mundi
Sarum plainchant · Proper for the Feast of Saint Margaret
Richard Pygott (c1485-1549): Salve regina
Restored by Nick Sandon
The second installment in Blue Heron's 5-CD series of Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks features Nicholas Ludford's radiant Missa Regnum mundi, sung in a musical context like that of its probable original occasion, a festal mass for St Margaret, with plainchant items from the Proper according to the Use of Salisbury. The disc concludes with Richard Pygott's extraordinary Salve regina, one of the longest votive antiphons extant and a marvel of rhetorical expression. This is the world premiere recording of all the music on the disc.
