Instead of just one song this week for Tuesday Tunes, I have seventeen of them! I am so pleased to share a debut album by one of my favorite early music ensembles based in NYC, Concordian Dawn. Years ago in 2018 I was fortunate enough to bring the group, directed by harpist, vocalist, and musicologist Christopher Preston Thompson, to the University of Pennsylvania to perform a concert in the Music in the Pavilion series, which was linked for that concert only to a symposium on the Gothic Arts co-organized by myself and fellow Penn faculty Sarah Guerin and Ada Kuskowski.

The concert performed by Concordian Dawn on that March evening in 2018, Fortuna antiqua et ultra, has since become the basis of this new recording, available to order here. I’ve had the physical CD in my hands for a week now, and am greatly enjoying and appreciating their take on some new and old favorites.

And because this is a weekly Latin song post, I’ll point out that the album includes seven Latin-texted works (motets and songs), including Procurans odium and De monte lapis.

Enjoy and support young artists and early music!