The Marian Collection

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the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Nov 2014
Catalogue No: DCD34144
Label: Delphian
Length: 67 minutes

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Weir: Ave Regina caelorum

Work length3:27

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Palestrina: Alma redemptoris mater

Work length2:40

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Francis Shepherd (cantor)
Choir of Merton College Oxford
Peter Phillips
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Tavener: Mother Of God, Here I Stand (from The Veil Of The Temple)

Work length2:56

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Andrew: Salve Regina

Work length7:00

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Nesbett: Magnificat

Work length9:23

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Oliver Kelham (cantor)
Choir of Merton College Oxford
Peter Phillips
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Kendall: Regina caeli

Work length4:04

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Byrd: Salve Regina

Work length7:18

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Peter Phillips
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Stravinsky: Ave Maria

Work length1:49

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Tabakova: Alma redemptoris Mater

Work length5:20

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Jackson, Gabriel: I say that we are wound with mercy

Work length7:23

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Charles Warren (organ)
Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Parsons, R: Ave Maria

Work length4:09

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Peter Phillips
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Tavener: Hymn to the Mother of God

Work length5:35

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

No. 1, A Hymn to the Mother of God

Track length2:36

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No. 2, Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother God

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Martin, M: Salve sedes sapientiae

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Bruckner: Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6

Work length3:30

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Choir of Merton College Oxford
Benjamin Nicholas
Recorded: 02-04 July 2014
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, England, United Kingdom

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This is the fourth and final themed recording in a series that has confirmed Merton’s new choral foundation as one of the UK’s leading collegiate choirs. Benjamin Nicholas again draws from the landmark collection of more than 55 works written in celebration of the College’s 750th anniversary. Here, a new work by Judith Weir (newly appointed Master of the Queen’s Music) heads a set of the four Marian antiphons, all specially commissioned from women composers; while two further premiere recordings represent the work of regular Merton collaborators Gabriel Jackson and Matthew Martin. At the other end of the chronological spectrum, Peter Phillips’ expert direction of Byrd’s rarely performed 'Salve Regina', a bold statement of Catholic faith from Reformation England, and of John Nesbett’s late 15th-century 'Magnificat', a piece whose neglect on disc is astonishing, completes this portrait in sound of a woman who – as characterised in Alexandra Coghlan’s illuminating booklet essay – is at once virgin and mother, human and God-bearer, suppliant and Queen of Heaven.

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Awards Issue 2015

the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is lucidly balanced out by the singers...Of the other works the glowing Magnificat of 15th-century composer John Nesbitt is particularly notable, bringing gleaming work from the sopranos in particular.

March/April 2015

[a] fascinating and finely executed collection of anthems and motets…The 35-strong mixed voice choir possess perfect intonation and blend…this is not a disc to be missed.

Early Music Review February 2015

The Delphian engineers capture superbly this excellent choir in its home chapel and one of the main delights of the programme is precisely the engaging mix of early and contemporary music.

12th February 2015

Benjamin Nicholas and Peter Phillips have done a marvellous job in training these young singers to such a consistently high standard...As for the sound, it seems to me that engineer Paul Baxter definitely has the measure of the wonderful acoustic of the Merton chapel and this recording is beyond reproach.

14th December 2014

this arresting sequence is of old and new representations of the Virgin. Judith Weir’s vigorous, beautifully fresh Ave Regina caelorum is the first of four such Marian antiphons commissioned from women, the others being Kerry Andrew, Hannah Kendall and Dobrinka Tabakova, the results all striking.

29th January 2015

Delphian scores yet another choral hit with this exceptional and fascinating collection themed around musical representations of the Virgin Mary. And once again, Merton College Choir is the immaculate vehicle for performances that encompass the old and the new.

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