Missa Fors seulement (Ockeghem@600, Concert 7) (Wellesley)

Blue Heron’s 13-concert Ockeghem@600 project continues with a program of sacred music based on secular song, featuring Ockeghem’s song Fors seulement and his own Mass based on it, as well as Binchois’s Je ne vis onques la pareille and pieces that quote it by La Rue, Agricola, and Ghiselin.

Blue Heron is North America’s leading vocal ensemble for Renaissance music. Directed by Scott Metcalfe, the ensemble is renowned for a 5-CD set of world premiere recordings, Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks.

Johannes Ockeghem (c.1420-1497): Fors seullement l’attente, Fors seullement contre ce, Missa Fors seullement
Gilles Binchois: Je ne vis onques la pareille
Pierre de la Rue: Salve regina
Alexander Agricola: Credo Je ne vis onques
Johannes Ghiselin: Salve regina

Megan Chartrand, Martin Near, Owen McIntosh, Jason McStoots, Sumner Thompson, Paul Guttry, David McFerrin, Steven Hrycelak, voices

There will also be performances in Boston on Thursday March 1 and in Cambridge on Saturday March 3.