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Concert History
Chansons de printemps
16th-century French songs for spring
Saturday, May 4, 2013 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, May 5, 2013 at 4pm
Church of St. Luke in the Fields, New York City
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Divine Songs
Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, March 24, 2013 at 3pm
Shalin Liu Performance Center, Rockport, MA
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Christmas in 15th-century France & Burgundy
Friday, December 21, 2012 at 8 pm
Saturday, December 22, 2012 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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Nicholas Ludford: Missa Inclina cor meum
(North American premiere)
Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8 pm
St Cecilia Parish, Boston
Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, October 14, 2011 at 4pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York City
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Song of Songs / Songs of love
Thursday, June 7, 2012 at 8 pm
Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, Berkeley CA
Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 8pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, June 10, 2012 at 4pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York City
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Music for Three Sovereigns
Saturday, March 24, 2012 at 8 pm
Renaissance & Baroque Society, Pittsburgh
Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 1 & 3 pm
The Cloisters (Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York City
Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 8 pm
Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
Thursday, March 29, 2012 at 8 pm
St Mary's Chapel, Boston University
Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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Christmas in Medieval England
Friday, December 16, 2011 at 8 pm
Saturday, December 17, 2011 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
A festive program of carols, motets & plainchant for Advent & Christmas from 15th-century England, featuring music by Leonel Power, John Dunstaple & others, including works from the Old Hall manuscript & the anonymous Missa Veterem hominem.
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A 16th-century Meeting of England & Spain
Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 4 pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York City
Blue Heron with guest ensemble Ensemble Plus Ultra (UK, dir. Michael Noone)
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Music of Tomás Luis de Victoria (d. 1611)
Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 4 pm
St. Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York City
A program of music by Victoria and other Spanish composers to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the master's death.
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Christmas at the Courts of 15th-century France,
Burgundy & Cyprus
Saturday, December 18, 2010 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 4 pm
Corpus Christi Church, New York City
A Heron Holiday on the eve of the solstice, with chant, motets, and secular songs for Advent, Christmas, and New Year's Day.
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A 15th-century Cabaret
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Keene State College,
Keene, NH
Saturday, November 6, 2010 at 8 pm
Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College,
Wellesley, MA
Sunday, November 7, 2010 at 7 pm
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 8 pm
Dumbarton Oaks,
Washington, DC
Chansons by Du Fay, Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys, Morton, and others, drawn especially from the Chansonnier cordiforme. Five singers and three instrumentalists playing rebec, fiddles, harps, douçaine & recorder.
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Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi
Aston: Gaude virgo mater Christi
Saturday, October 16, 2010 at 8 pm
The newest installment in our series of music from the Peterhouse partbooks (c.1540).
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The Virgin and the Singer
Saturday, June 12, 2010 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Concert was repeated on June 13 at the Connecticut Early Music Festival (www.ctearlymusic.org)
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Song of Songs / Songs of Love
Friday, March 13, 2010 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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Christmas in Medieval England
Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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Tenth Birthday Concert - Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks (Canterbury Cathedral, c.1540)
Friday, October 16, 2009 at 8 pm
St. Paul Church, Harvard Square, Cambridge
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 4 pm
Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church, New York City
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Guillaume Du Fay, Savoy & the island of Cyprus
Friday, March 13, 2009 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 2 pm
Currier Museum of Art, 150 Ash Street, Manchester NH 03104
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Perotin / Josquin:
Christmas in French-speaking lands, 1200 & 1500
Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sunday, December 21, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Grace Church, Providence RI
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Music from the Peterhouse partbooks:
Tallis, Taverner, Aston & Jones
Friday, October 24, 2008 at 8 pm
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Saturday, October 25, 2008 at 3 pm
Bowdoin Chapel, Bowdoin College, Brunswick ME
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Du Fay & others
July 20, Chapel Hill, Shandon (Music in the Vines)
July 22, Mission San Luis Obispo (Music in the Mission)
Blue Heron performed music of Du Fay and others at the 2008 Festival Mozaic (formerly the Mozart Festival) in San Luis Obispo, California
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Music from the Age of El Greco and Velázquez
Saturday, April 26, 2008, 8:00 pm
with the Boston Shawm & Sackbut Ensemble
and the Blue Heron Violin Band
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
A Medieval English Christmas and a Burgundian New Year
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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Sunday, September 30, 2007
Taverner, Mason & Byrd
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
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July 27, 2007
Morales, Guerrero, Victoria & Vivanco
Monadnock Music: Peterborough Town House, Peterborough, NH
Morales: Ave maris stella, Et factum est postquam, Lamentabatur Jacob
Guerrero: Surge propera amica mea / Veni sponsa Christi
Victoria: Vadam et circuibo civitatem, Laudate Dominum omnes gentes a 8, Laetatus sum a 12
Si te vas a bañar, ¡Ay de mí!, Falalalán, Si la noche haze escura (Villancicos de diversos Autores, 1556)
Claros y frescos ríos (Cancionero musical de Medinaceli, c. 1569)
Vivanco: Caritas Pater a 9
March 11, 2007
Ockeghem / Perotin
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Ockeghem: Ave Maria, Salve regina, Presque transi, Sanctus & Agnus dei (Missa Mi mi)
Perotin: Beata viscera, Viderunt omnes, Sederunt principes
Anonymous: Serena virginum
view the concert program, notes, and translations online (PDF format). ©*
Saturday, November 11, 2006
The World of John Dunstable
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sarum plainchant: Kyrie Omnipotens pater
Power: Gloria (Old Hall MS, no. 21), Ave regina coelorum, Credo (Old Hall MS, no. 84), Ibo michi ad montem mire
Dunstable: Salve scema sanctitatis, Dies dignus decorari, Salve regina (with trope Virgo mater), Speciosa facta es
Binchois: Ay douloureux
Bedyngham: Durer ne puis
Frye: Alas alas is my chief song, Ave regina coelorum
Du Fay: Gloria
Anonymous: Agnus dei (Missa Salve sancta parens, c. 1440)
July 22, 2006
The World of Guillaume Du Fay
Monadnock Music: Peterborough Town House, Peterborough, NH
Du Fay: Apostolo glorioso, Ave maris stella, Ma belle dame je vous pri, C’est bien raison, Sanctus Papale, Rite majorem Jacobum canamus, Par le regard, Aurea luce, Adieu m’amour, Ma belle dame souveraine, Ecclesie militantis
Binchois: Tant plus ayme
Dunstable: Veni sancte spiritus
July 19, 20, 2006
Monadnock Music: Old Meeting House, Francestown, NH
July 20, 2006
Monadnock Music: All Saints Episcopal Church, Peterborough, NH
Du Fay chansons / Marenzio madrigals
Du Fay: Par droit je puis complaindre, Je me complains, J’atendray tant, Flos florum, Entre vous, Adieu m’amour, Puisque vous estez campieur, Mon cuer me fait tous dis penser
Hugo de Lantins: Mon doulx espoir
Marenzio: The Eighth Book Of Madrigals For Five Voices
April 29, 2006
The French Library, Boston
Marenzio: The Eighth Book of Madrigals for Five Voices (1598)
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April 7, 2006
Paine Hall, Harvard University: International Marenzio Conference
Marenzio: The Eighth Book of Madrigals for Five Voices (1598)
March 5, 2006
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
The World of Guillaume Du Fay
Du Fay: Apostolo glorioso, Ave maris stella, Entre vous, Je me complains, J’atendray tant, Flos florum, Sanctus Papale, Rite majorem Jacobum canamus, Aurea luce, Malheureulx cueur, Puisque vous estez campieur, Par droit je puis bien complaindre, Ecclesie militantis
Binchois: Tant plus ayme
Hugo de Lantins: Mon doulx espoir
Dunstable: Veni sancte spiritus
Ockeghem: Permanent vierge
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March 4, 2006
EnlightenNext Boston, Cambridge
Special Event: Listening to the music of Guillaume Du Fay
February 26, 2006
First Religious Society, Newburyport, MA
Chansons by Du Fay & others
Du Fay: Entre vous, Helas mon dueil, Par droit je puis complaindre, Flos florum, Je me complains, Adieu m’amour, Malheureulx cueur, Puisque vous estez campieur, J’atendray tant, mon cuer me fait tous dis penser
Cordier: Ce jour de l’an
Binchois: Margarite fleur de valeur, De plus en plus, Pour prison, Tant plus ayme
Arnold de Lantins: Tout mon desir
Hugo de Lantins: Mon doulx espoir
November 11, 2005
Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
November 13, 2005
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
November 17, 2005
UVM Lane Series, Burlington, Vermont: St. Michael's College Chapel
A Mass in Canterbury, c. 1540
Robert Jones: Missa Spes nostra
Hugh Aston: Ave Maria dive matris Anne
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis
Sheppard: Libera nos, salva nos
Plainchant propers, Sarum use
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October 9, 2005
Abraham & Isaac
92nd Street Y, New York City
(as part of a program of poetry, readings, and music on the theme “Isaac Bound,” curated by Sanford Sylvan)
Charpentier: Tentavit Deus Abraham
Carissimi: Historia di Abraham et Isaac
Rossi: Psalm 128
July 16, 2005
Monadnock Music: Peterborough Town House, Peterborough, NH
July 17, 2005
Amherst Early Music Festival: Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Songs of love and the Song of Songs: 15th- and 16th-century English music, sacred and secular
Sarum plainchant: Veterem hominem
Anonymous: Kyrie Deus creator omnium (Missa Veterem hominem)
Dunstable: Speciosa facta es, Quam pulcra es
Pyamour: Quam pulcra es
Forest: Tota pulcra es
Anonymous: Agnus dei (Missa Salve sancta parens)
Anonymous: Go hert hurt with adversite, Thus y compleyne, Pryncesse of youthe
Morton: Le souvenir de vous me tue
Cornysh: Ave Maria mater dei
Benet: Telus purpurium / Splendida flamigero
? Cornysh: A robyn gentyl robyn
Frye: Alas alas is my chief song
Power: Ibo michi ad montem
Mason: Quales sumus O miseri
June 15, 2005
2005 Boston Early Music Festival: St. Cecilia’s Parish, Boston
Music for the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I
Josquin: Inviolata integra et casta
Senfl: Beati omnes
Anonymous (La Rue?): Je ne scay plus, Cueurs desolez / Dies illa
La Rue: Mijn hert altijt heeft verlanghen
Isaac: O Maria mater Christi, Virgo prudentissima
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April 30, 2005
The French Library, Boston
Les Chansons du Printemps: An Evening of 15th-Century French Songs
Du Fay: Ce moys de may, Belle vueilliés vostre mercy donner, Je me complains, J’atandray tant, Malheureux cueur, Ce jour de l’an, Mon cuer me fait tous dis penser
Arnold de Lantins: Tout mon desir
Binchois: De plus en plus, Je ne vis oncques la pareille
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April 16-17, 2005
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Iberia & America: Music of 16th-Century Spain and New Spain
Morales: Et factum est postquam
Guerrero: Pange lingua gloriosi, Conditor alme siderum
Gaspar Fernandes: Salté de los cielos, Vaya la princesa
Juan Vásquez: De los álamos vengo madre, Por mi vida madre
Ginés de Morata: Pues que no puedo olvidarte
Mudarra: Fantasia que contrahaze la Harpa
Milán: Fantasia, La Bella Franceschina, Gagliarda lombarda
Falalalán, Dime robadora, Si la noche haze escura (Villancicos de diversos Autores, 1556)
Claros y frescos ríos (Cancionero musical de Medinaceli, c. 1569)
Hernando Franco: Salve regina a 5
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November 28, 2004
First Church Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge
Britannia florens: English love songs and sacred music, circa 1420-1550
Benet: Telus purpurium / Splendida flamigero
Dunstable: Speciosa facta es, Quam pulcra es
Pyamour: Quam pulcra es
Forest: Tota pulcra es
Anonymous: Agnus dei (Missa Salve sancta parens)
Anonymous: Go hert hurt with adversite, Thus y compleyne, Pryncesse of youthe
Morton: Le souvenir de vous me tue
Cornysh: Ave Maria mater dei
Robert Johnson: Gaude Maria virgo
Tallis: Hear the voice and prayer, If ye love me
? Cornysh: A robyn gentyl robyn
Frye: Alas alas is my chief song
Power: Ibo michi ad montem
Mason: Quales sumus O miseri
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July 31, 2004
Monadnock Music: Peterborough Town House, Peterborough, NH
Music by Robert Jones, Thomas Tallis, and John Taverner
Jones: Missa Spes nostra, from the Peterhouse partbooks (c. 1540)
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis, If ye love me, Hear the voice and prayer
Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum (II)
Sarum plainchant
July 30, 2004
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sponsored by the Society for Historically Informed Performance
Speaking in many tongues: Music by Robert Jones, Thomas Tallis, and Elliott Gyger
Jones: Missa Spes nostra, from the Peterhouse partbooks (c. 1540)
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis
Gyger: Trisagion 1521 (2003), Kyrie Gloria tibi Trinitas (1998)
Sarum plainchant
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March 19, 2004
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Josquin in Italy
Josquin: Gaude virgo mater Christi, O virgo virginum, Vultum tuum deprecabuntur, Missa Fortuna desperata
July 17, 2003
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Sponsored by the Society for Historically Informed Performance
July 19, 2003
Monadnock Music: All-Saints' Episcopal Church, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Gombert, Morales & company
La Rue: Gaude virgo, Secretz regretz
Richafort: D’amour je suis desheritée
Gombert: Quam pulchra es, Descendi in hortum meum, Mille regres
Josquin: Mille regretz
Guerrero: Quasi cedrus, Antes que comáis a Dios
Peñalosa: Precor te Domine
Rivafrecha: Vox dilecti mei
De Gois: Surge propera
Ay luna que reluzes, Dime robadora (Villancicos de diversos Autores, 1556)
Vásquez: Lágrimas de mi consuelo
Morales: Spem in alium
Escribano: Paradisi porta
January 12, 2003
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
English sacred polyphony, c.1440-1540
Sarum plainchant: Veterem hominem
Anonymous: Kyrie Deus creator omnium (Missa Veterem hominem, c.1440)
Dunstable: Quam pulcra es, Speciosa facta es, Gaude felix Anna
John Browne: Salve regina
Robert Jones: Magnificat
Hugh Aston: Ave Maria dive matris Anne
July 23, 2002
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational
Presented by the International Baroque Institute at Longy
July 26, 2002
Monadnock Music: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Peterborough, NH
From Flanders to Spain
Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater, Ma maistresse, Kyrie & Gloria Ma maistresse
Brumel: Ave Maria gratia plena, Mater patris et filia
Gombert: Hortus conclusus, Tota pulchra es
Josquin: Inviolata integra et casta
Cornago: ¿Qu’es mi vida preguntays?
Cornago / Ockeghem: ¿Qu’es mi vida preguntays?
Peñalosa: Precor te Domine, Emendemus in melius
Ay luna que reluzes, Si la noche haze escura, Vesame y abraçame, Dezilde al cavallero (Villancicos de diversos Autores, 1556)
Morales: Spem in alium
Escribano: Paradisi porta
July 25, 2002
From Flanders to Spain
Monadnock Music: Sullivan (NH) United Congregational Church
Josquin: Inviolata integra et casta
Gombert: Hortus conclusus, Tota pulchra es
Cornago: ¿Qu’es mi vida preguntays?
Cornago / Ockeghem: ¿Qu’es mi vida preguntays?
Peñalosa: Precor te Domine, Emendemus in melius
Ay luna que reluzes, Si la noche haze escura, Vesame y abraçame, Dezilde al cavallero (Villancicos de diversos Autores, 1556)
Morales: Spem in alium
Escribano: Paradisi porta
March 6, 2002
Church of the Advent, Boston
March 17, 2002
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Fair as the Moon, Bright as the Sun: Franco-Flemish polyphony in honor of Mary, Queen of the Angels
Josquin: Inviolata integra et casta
Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater, Salve regina, Ma maistresse, Kyrie & Gloria Ma maistresse
Obrecht: Ave maris stella, Salve regina
Brumel: Ave Maria gratia plena, Mater patris et filia
Gombert: Hortus conclusus, Tota pulchra es
Isaac: Virgo prudentissima
October 21, 2001
Jones Missa Spes nostra, Tallis & Taverner
Church of the Advent, Boston
Robert Jones: Missa Spes nostra
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis, Salvator mundi (I), If ye love me, Hear the voice and prayer, God grant we grace (Eighth tune for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter)
Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum (II)
July 20, 2001
Aston Missa Te deum
Monadnock Music: All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Peterborough, NH
Hugh Aston: Missa Te deum, Ave Maria dive matris
Sheppard: Libera nos, salva nos (I)
Sarum chant propers for Trinity Sunday
July 19, 2001
The Eton Choirbook, the Peterhouse partbooks & beyond
Monadnock Music: Deering (NH) Community Church
Cornysh: Ave Maria mater dei (Eton Choirbook)
Lambe: Nesciens mater (Eton Choirbook)
Aston: Gaude mater matris Christi
Tallis: If ye love me, Hear the voice and prayer, Eighth tune for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum (II)
July 15, 2001
The Eton Choirbook, the Peterhouse partbooks & beyond
Monadnock Music: Old Meeting House, Jaffrey Center, NH
Cornysh: Ave Maria mater dei (Eton Choirbook)
Lambe: Nesciens mater (Eton Choirbook)
Aston: Gaude mater matris Christi
Tallis: If ye love me, Hear the voice and prayer, Eighth tune for Archbishop Parker's Psalter
Taverner: Dum transisset sabbatum (II)
February 4, 2001
In honorem Mariae virginis
Church of the Advent, Boston
Josquin: Vultum tuum, Ave maria…virgo serena
Cornysh: Ave Maria mater dei (Eton Choirbook)
Lambe: Nesciens mater (Eton Choirbook)
Ockeghem: Salve regina
Aston: Gaude mater matris Christi
October 29, 2000
A Peterhouse mass for Trinity
Church of the Advent, Boston
Aston: Missa Te deum
Ludford: Domine Jesu Christe (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Taverner: Fac nobis secundum hoc nomen suave (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Sarum chant propers for Trinity Sunday
September 17, 2000
A Peterhouse mass for Candlemas
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Taverner: Missa Mater Christi (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Aston: Ave Maria dive matris Anne (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Sheppard: Liber nos, salva nos (I)
Sarum chant propers for Candlemas
July 21, 2000
Josquin
Monadnock Music: Milford (NH) Town Hall
Josquin: Vultum tuum deprecabuntur, Ave maria ... virgo serena
July 16, 2000
Taverner & Aston
Monadnock Music: Old Meeting House, Jaffrey Center, NH
Taverner: Missa Mater Christi (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Aston: Ave Maria dive matris Anne (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
July 14, 2000
Ockeghem & Josquin
Monadnock Music: Lyndeborough Center (NH) United Church
Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater, Kyrie & Gloria Ma maistresse, Credo (Sistine Chapel MS 26)
Lupi: Ergo ne conticuit (lament on the death of Ockeghem)
Josquin: Vultum tuum deprecabuntur (cycle of Motetti missales), Ave maria ... virgo serena
July 13, 2000
Ockeghem
Monadnock Music: Harrisville, NH
Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater, Kyrie & Gloria Ma maistresse, Credo (Sistine Chapel MS 26)
Lupi: Ergo ne conticuit (lament on the death of Ockeghem)
March 25, 2000
St Peter's Episcopal Church, Cambridge
March 26, 2000
Church of the Advent, Boston
Ockeghem & Obrecht
Ockeghem: Alma redemptoris mater, Kyrie & Gloria Ma maistresse, Salve regina, Credo (Sistine Chapel MS 26)
Philippe Basiron: Salve regina
Obrecht: Ave maris stella a 3, Salve regina a 6
October 16, 1999
St Peter's Episcopal Church, Cambridge
October 17, 1999
Church of the Advent, Boston
A Peterhouse mass for Candlemas
Taverner: Missa Mater Christi (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Aston: Ave Maria dive matris Anne (Peterhouse partbooks, reconstructed by Nick Sandon)
Sheppard: Libera nos, salva nos (I)
Sarum chant propers for Candlemas
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