Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5
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Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5
Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
[ Blue Heron Renaissance choir / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 1 September 2018
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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.
The 2018 winner of the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music - the first for a non-European ensemble in the award's 41-year history- volume 5 of the acclaimed series 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 disc 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-CD project which began in 2010. It was recognized as an Editor's Choice and a Critic's Choice for 2017 by Gramphone Magazine, where Fabrice Fitch called the disc "one of the discoveries of the year."
Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Early Music
"Settling into consistency of a very high standard, this is the choir's finest disc yet, with the anonymous Missa sine nomine, restored by Nick Sandon, as a particular highlight." Choir & Organ
"Blue Heron are a multivalent group. Here they sing with two or three voices to a part, using adult trebles for the top one...At full stretch there isn't a weak link from top to bottom, and at their best (that is, usually) the trebles stand comparison with those of far better-known ensembles either side of the Atlantic: try the Mass that forms the centrepiece here...I doubt whether I'll be alone in thinking this one of the discoveries of the year" Gramophone Editor's Choice October 2017
Tracks:
1 Exultet in hac die
2 Ave Maria mater dei
3 Ve nobis miseris
4 Kyrie (Orbis factor)
Missa sine nomine:
5 Missa sine nomine: Gloria
6 Missa sine nomine: Credo
7 Missa sine nomine: Sanctus
8 Missa sine nomine: Agnus dei
