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A Rose Magnificat
Kenneth Leighton: Of a rose is all my song
Thomas Tallis: Videte miraculum
Peter Warlock: As dew in Aprylle
Robert White: Magnificat
James MacMillan: Ave Maris Stella
John Sheppard: Ave Maris Stella
Owain Park: Ave Maris Stella
Robert Wylkynson: Salve Regina
Herbert Howells: Salve Regina
Jonathan Lane: There is no rose
Matthew Martin: A Rose Magnificat
Gabrieli Consort
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
2018 Limelight Magazine Choral Recording of the Year
2019 BBC Music Magazine Choral Award
Paul McCreesh leads the Gabrieli Consort in a collection of works that explores the diverse and extensive body of works dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary over the centuries. Music by Tallis, MacMillan, Howells and Leighton frames the world premiere of a new work by the young British composer, Matthew Martin: a setting of the Magnificat, interpolated with verses from the atmospheric medieval poem There is no rose.
Kenneth Leighton: Of a rose is all my song
“What is it about the figure of Mary that’s best expressed through words written hundreds of years ago? Not just the great prayers – the Salve Regina, the Magnificat – but those short, pithy English poems which seem to capture the essence of Marian worship. All those great paradoxes… Mary as a symbol of both chastity and fertility, of virgin and mother… it’s those contradictions that fire the imagination of believer and non-believer alike.”Paul McCreesh
Winged Lion / Signum Classics
SIGCD536
May 2018