The Gate of Glory: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol. 5

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This series now surpasses The Sixteen’s as the largest discographic survey ever devoted to the Eton Choirbook…The approach is more relaxed…Occasionally the contrapuntal details aren’t quite as... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2018 More…

Release Date: 17th Nov 2017
Catalogue No: AV2376
Label: Avie
Series: Music from the Eton Choirbook
Length: 79 minutes

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Hugo Kelly: Gaude flore virginali a 7

Work length19:10

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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Stephen Darlington

Browne, J: O regina mundi clara

Work length15:58

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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Stephen Darlington

Fayrfax: Magnificat ‘Regali’

Work length18:30

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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Stephen Darlington

Lambe: Gaude Flore Virginali A 4

Work length11:20

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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Stephen Darlington

Hacomplaynt: Salve Regina A 5

Work length14:26

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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford
Stephen Darlington

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The Gate of Glory, the fifth volume in the critically acclaimed exploration of music from the Eton Choirbook by The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and director Stephen Darlington, includes the world premiere recording of Walter Lambe's Gaude flore virginali, and a striking range of styles from harmony and counterpoint to elegance and simplicity.

The men and boys of The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford and director Stephen Darlington continue their exploration of the Eton Choirbook, the extraordinarily vast and diverse collection of English sacred music from the early Renaissance, with a fifth volume in their critically acclaimed series. As with previous volumes, The Gate of Glory includes a world premiere recording - Walter Lambe's Gaude flore virginali - alongside works by Hugo Kellyk, Robert Fayrfax, Robert Hacomplaynt and John Browne, the preëminent composer of the Eton Choirbook. The diversity of styles on this album is particularly striking, ranging from the astonishing balance of harmony and counterpoint in Browne's O regina mundi, to the elegance and simplicity of Fayrfax's setting of the Magnificat. This is liturgical music which truly gives the listener a glimpse of the mystery of the eternal.

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January 2018

This series now surpasses The Sixteen’s as the largest discographic survey ever devoted to the Eton Choirbook…The approach is more relaxed…Occasionally the contrapuntal details aren’t quite as clear but the overall sound is more involving in the fully scored passages, and I the reduced sections the interplay of voices Is beautifully handled.

19th November 2017

Five more masterpieces from this rich source of pre-Reformation sacred music, beautifully sung...it’s the rich male-voice compositions — Walter Lambe’s Gaude flore virginali and John Browne’s O regina mundi clara — that hit the sweetest spots.

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