Blue Heron Choir/Metcalfe - Du Fay:Motets/Hymns/Chansons

Blue Heron's debut CD offers an entrancing selection of music by the greatest composer of the 15th century, Guillaume Du Fay (c.1397-1474). The program includes three isorhythmic motets (?Apostolo glorioso, Rite majorem Jacobum canamus, ?and Ecclesie militantis),? the glorious, large-scale ?Sanctus Papale in its first recording in three decades, two hymns with alternatim plainchant verses, and a generous sampling of secular songs. Works by Johannes Ockeghem and Hugo de Lantins are included.