Blue Heron - The Lost Music of Canterbury: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks (2018)

The 5-release project The Lost Music of Canterbury: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks is the capstone of a landmark project of international musical significance which presents extraordinary music from the last generation of medieval Catholicism in England. Judged by this music, Catholic culture remained vital and confident during this turbulent period. The fifth release in the set, released in 2017, was a Gramophone Editors Choice and Critics Choice, and was also shortlisted for the magazine s 2018 Early Music award. Fabrice Fitch called it one of the discoveries of the year. 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.

TRACKLIST

Disc 01 (5 / 1:03:47)
1. Blue Heron - Ave Maria dive matris Anne
2. Blue Heron - Magnificat
3. Blue Heron - Gaude virgo Mater Christi
4. Blue Heron - Quales sumus O miseri
5. Blue Heron - Ave Maria ancilla



Disc 02 (12 / 1:19:40)
1. Blue Heron - Introit: Me expectaverunt peccatores
2. Blue Heron - Kyrie XII (Conditor)
3. Blue Heron - Missa Regnum mundi: I. Gloria
4. Blue Heron - Gradual “Specie tua”
5. Blue Heron - Alleluya “Veni electa mea”
6. Blue Heron - Missa Regnum mundi: II. Credo
7. Blue Heron - Offertory “Offerentur regi virgines”
8. Blue Heron - Missa Regnum mundi: III. Sanctus
9. Blue Heron - Missa Regnum mundi: IV. Agnus Dei
10. Blue Heron - Communion “Feci iudicium”
11. Blue Heron - Ite missa est
12. Blue Heron - Salve Regina “Votive Antiphon”



Disc 03 (6 / 59:56)
1. Blue Heron - Ave fuit prima salus
2. Blue Heron - Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor
3. Blue Heron - Missa Inclina cor meum Deus: I. Gloria
4. Blue Heron - Missa Inclina cor meum Deus: II. Credo
5. Blue Heron - Missa Inclina cor meum Deus: III. Sanctus
6. Blue Heron - Missa Inclina cor meum Deus: IV. Agnus Dei



Disc 04 (7 / 1:05:49)
1. Blue Heron - Ave cujus conceptio
2. Blue Heron - Kyrie Deus creator omnium
3. Blue Heron - Missa Spes nostra: I. Gloria
4. Blue Heron - Missa Spes nostra: II. Credo
5. Blue Heron - Missa Spes nostra: III. Sanctus
6. Blue Heron - Missa Spes nostra: IV. Agnus Dei
7. Blue Heron - Stabat Mater



Disc 05 (8 / 55:37)
1. Blue Heron - Exultet in hac die
2. Blue Heron - Ave Maria Mater Dei
3. Blue Heron - Ve nobis miseris
4. Blue Heron - Kyrie Orbis factor
5. Blue Heron - Missa sine nomine: V. Gloria
6. Blue Heron - Missa sine nomine: VI. Credo
7. Blue Heron - Missa sine nomine: VII. Sanctus
8. Blue Heron - Missa sine nomine: VIII. Agnus Dei