Blue Heron
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To say that Ockeghem composed some of the loveliest songs of the 15th century seems almost a cliché. But Scott Metcalfe and his musicians confirm that in spades. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Early Music
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Johannes Ockeghem: Complete Songs, Vol. 1
Margot Rood, Aaron Sheehan, Kim Leeds, Jason McStoots, Summer Thompson, Owen McIntosh, Martin Near, Stefan Reed, David McFerrin, Paul Guttry, Laura Jeppesen, Sophie Michaux, Megan Chartrand, Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
The signal virtue of Blue Heron’s Ockeghem is that they give the music room to breathe: this has always been rare in performances of 15th-century song and it pays instant dividends. Innumerable... —
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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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 —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Winner - Early Music
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The enunciation is excellent, and the engineering, reasonably close with sufficient “room” to support a range of color. The liner notes are frankly the best I’ve yet encountered in English in... —
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Special offer. Nicholas Ludford: Missa Inclina cor meum
Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 3
Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
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Special offer. Nicholas Ludford: Missa Regnum mundi
Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 2
Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe
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Guillaume de Machaut: Remede de Fortune
Scott Metcalfe, Martin Near, Jason McStoots, Owen McIntosh, Debra Nagy, Charles Weaver, Blue Heron
If I had to name one wonderful thing about the singing, it would be the carefully aligned medieval French vowels. Another choice would be the subtle phrasing… I would also add that’s Blue Heron’s... —
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Christmas in Medieval England (Live)
David McFerrin (vocals), Daniela Tošić (vocals), Pamela Dellal (vocals), Michael Barrett (vocals), Jason McStoots (vocals), Paul Guttry (vocals), Owen McIntosh (vocals), Mark Sprinkle (vocals), Scott Metcalfe (gothic harp)
Blue Heron
