Christmas & New Year’s in 15th-Century France & Burgundy
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BHCD 1014
Release date: December 15, 2024
A celebration of the Christmas season, from Advent through the New Year, in music from the courts of 15th-century France and Burgundy. Festive and sonorous music by Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Regis, Jacob Obrecht, Josquin Desprez, Antoine Brumel, Adrian Willaert, and others.
BLUE HERON
Cody Bowers, Kim Leeds, Sophie Michaux, Margot Rood,
Elisa Sutherland
cantus
Corey Dalton Hart, Jason McStoots, Jacob Perry,
James Reese, Aaron Sheehan, Sumner Thompson
tenor & contratenor
Cameron Beauchamp, Paul Guttry
bassus
Grant Herreid lute
Laura Jeppesen rebec & fiddle
Scott Metcalfe harp & fiddle, artistic director
Track Listing
Advent
1. Plainchant O clavis David
2. Jacob Obrecht Factor orbis
3. Plainchant O virgo virginum
4. Josquin Desprez (?) O virgo virginum
5. Guillaume Du Fay Conditor alme siderum
6. Antoine Brumel Ave Maria gratia dei plena
Christmas
7. Johannes Regis O admirabile commercium
8. Du Fay Letabundus
9. Adrian Willaert Praeter rerum seriem
10. Johannes Ciconia Gloria Spiritus et alme
11. Brumel Nato canunt omnia
New Year’s Day
12. Nicolas Grenon La plus belle et doulce figure
13. Guillaume Malbecque Dieu vous doinst bon jour et demy
14. Anonymous Auxce bon youre delabonestren
15. Arnold de Lantins Amours servir et honnourer
16. Baude Cordier Dame excellent ou sont bonté, scavoir
17. Cordier Ce jour de l’an qui maint doist estrenier
