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Regis’s Mass based on the song L’homme armé is one of the very first in a series of L’homme armé works stretching across musical generations – and the only one whose origins are clearly understood. Written for the celebration of the feast of St. Michael at Cambrai Cathedral in 1462, the Mass is a tour de force setting multiple plainchant cantus firmi and featuring Regis’s brilliant and unique sense of sonority.

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The Armed Archangel: Johannes Regis, Missa L’homme armé

First Church in Cambridge

Blue Heron returns to its origins, singing the glorious music of Hugh Aston from the Peterhouse Partbooks, and looks to the future with Boston composer Mehmet Ali Sanl?kol’s Devran and a new piece written for the occasion.

25th Birthday Concert: something old, something new

This will be the first recreation of Carlo Gesualdo's notorious music in competing authentic tunings of his time. Aside from Nicola Vicentino's complicated arcicembalo, other written testimonies by Gesualdo's musicians implicate that he composed according to a common lute’s meantone temperament. Audiences may hear that the prince went out of tune to express himself after killing his wife and her lover.

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Steven Hrycelak

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Feb 1, 2025

The Armed Archangel: Johannes Regis, Missa L’homme armé · Blue Heron

Oct 19, 2024

25th Birthday Concert: something old, something new · Blue Heron

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