Composer: Matthew Martin
Performer: Choir of Gonville & Caius
Conductor: Matthew Martin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Linn
Catalogue: CKD743
Release: 2024
Size: 2.94 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Laudate Dominum
Missa Speravimus
02. I. Kyrie
03. II. Gloria
04. III. Sanctus
05. IV. Agnus Dei
06. Haec dies
07. Sicut cervus
08. I Saw the Lord
09. Conditor alme siderum
10. Adam lay ybounden
11. I Sing of a Maiden
12. Angelus ad Virginem
13. Ave maris stella
14. A Hymn to St. Etheldreda
15. Vidi aquam
16. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
17. A Prayer of St. Thérèse
The Oratory Mass
18. I. Kyrie
19. II. Gloria
20. III. Sanctus
21. IV. Agnus Dei
22. Te lucis ante terminum
The St. John’s College Service
23. I. Magnificat
24. II. Nunc dimittis
Following its first album for Linn – a recording of motets by the English expatriates Philips and Dering – The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, travels a few centuries forward, turning now to the vibrant and engaging choral music by its Director of Music, Matthew Martin. The album showcases a collection of works written between 2004 and 2022, which includes some world premiere recordings. From simple mass and motet settings to more complex festival anthems and canticles, the music is broadly and unabashedly composed as an extension to a familiar twentieth-century English idiom, his varied style traversing both the Anglican and Catholic traditions with hints of less familiar European chant and polyphony. This is music choirs will wholeheartedly add to their repertoire.