Mother of God: Choral Music to the Virgin Mary
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Label: Prima Facie
Cat No: PFCD117
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 15th November 2019
Contents
Works
O viridissima virgaA Hymn to the Virgin
Ego flos campi
To the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Ave Regina caelorum
Stabat Mater
Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Regina caeli
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Ave Maria
Salve regina (solemn tone)
Ave maris stella
Artists
KhorosConductor
Patrick AlliesWorks
O viridissima virgaA Hymn to the Virgin
Ego flos campi
To the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Ave Regina caelorum
Stabat Mater
Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Regina caeli
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Ave Maria
Salve regina (solemn tone)
Ave maris stella
Artists
KhorosConductor
Patrick AlliesAbout
Ben Rowarth’s Regina caeli (for SAT voices) and Libby Croad’s To the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which was commissioned for this disc, sets an anonymous 19th-century text published in Volume I of the Carmelite Review of August 1892. The earliest music in the programme is the solemn tone plainsong Salve Regina.
Hildegard of Bingen’s own mesmerising, flowing plainsong in O viridissima virga is sung by the women’s voices. From Tudor England, Robert Parsons’ setting of Ave Maria concludes with an Amen of exquisite beauty, considered to be one of the finest passages of music composed in the 16th century. The same Ave Maria text is subtly combined with that of WB Yeats’s poem The Mother of God in the vivid and powerful Mater Dei by Sarah Rimkus. The seven-part setting of Ego flos campi by Jacobus Clemens non Papa is full of sumptuous choral counterpoint, and an equally sonorous effect is accomplished in the rich contemporary harmonies of Eva Ugalda’s setting for men’s voices of Ave maris stella.
Jan Sandström surrounds Michael Praetorius’s Est ist ein Ros entsprungen with clustered chords and creates an atmosphere of stillness around the wintry words. Orlande de Lassus’s double-choir, eight-part Alma redemptoris mater brings the programme, which also includes works by Taverner, Lobo, Padilla and Britten, to a musically thrilling conclusion.
The recording venue was the compact but resonant chapel of Downing College, Cambridge.
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