One of the master's most celebrated and mysterious creations, the earliest surviving polyphonic setting of the Requiem Mass, together with motets honoring Ockeghem by Antoine Busnoys and Johannes Lupi. Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes before the program.
By the age of 21, Henry Purcell (1659–1695) held the three most coveted musical positions in England. Widely praised after his death as Britain’s Orpheus, Purcell’s Hail! Bright Cecilia, delivers English Baroque style at its most powerfully expressive and eloquent. Purcell was the ultimate dramatist of his day and undeniably the most skilled Baroque composer to …
A festive new program of sonorous motets, exuberant villancicos, and comic ensaladas for the Christmas season with singers, guitars, percussion, and dulcian.
A festive new program of sonorous motets, exuberant villancicos, and comic ensaladas for the Christmas season with singers, guitars, percussion, and dulcian.
A festive new program of sonorous motets, exuberant villancicos, and comic ensaladas for the Christmas season with singers, guitars, percussion, and dulcian.
Josquin's Missa Fortuna Desperata and Dido's lament. A program on the themes of Fortuna and Fama: Josquin's sunny mass based on the song Fortuna desperata and a group of settings of Dido's last words, Dulces exuvie, by Josquin, De Orto, Agricola, and others. Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes before the program.
Ockethem@600 Concert 13. This final installation in our multi-season traversal of Ockeghem's complete works, featuring some of his most moving pieces - the Missa Mi mi, the motet Intemerata dei mater, and the song Presque transi - as well as the famous lament for Ockeghem, Numphes des bois by Josquin Desprez. Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes before …
Courtly music from Mantua & Ferrara, c. 1500. Blue Heron will be joined by a pair of outstanding medieval instrumentalists - fiddle player Anna Danilevskaia and multi-instrumental virtuosa Debra Nagy - in a program of music connected to the great patroness Isabella d'Este of Ferrar, Marchesa of Mantua. Free pre-concert talk 45 minutes before the …
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