Blackdowns Early Music Projects – The Earthquake Mass

Guest Director Andrea Brown, in a programme of early music for voices, sackbuts and cornetts.
With some themes relating to Easter, the programme highlights two sections of Brumel’s extraordinary Earthquake Mass. This is the earliest known Mass of its kind, having been written in the 1490s and surviving thanks to the interest of the musicians at the Bavarian Court in 1570, who had a copy made.
Other works in the programme include music written by Brumel’s near contemporaries Gombert, Ockeghem and Isaac. We also include music by Lassus, who sang in the first performance of Brumel’s Mass in the Bavarian Court as well other later works by his contemporaries, Gibbons and Praetorius