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St Martin’s Voices & Andrew Earis – A Winter Breviary: Choral Works for Christmas (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:06:04 minutes | 2,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonus Classics
In this, their debut recording with Resonus Classics, St Martin’s Voices presents a selection of contemporary choral works for the Christmas season. With settings of poetry from the fifteenth century to the present day, these new carols explore themes of winter snowscapes, the anticipation and contemplation of Advent, the Christmas story as seen by the women at its heart, and the joy of coming in from the cold to celebrate together. In a programme made entirely of premiere recordings, this album features works by Cecilia McDowall, Roderick Williams and Lucy Walker, among others. The album also boasts a major new carol suite by Bob Chilcott, with libretto by Georgia Way entitled Mary, Mother, which was premiered by the ensemble in 2022.
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Shaneeka Simon, St Martin’s Voices & Will Todd – Will Todd: Passion Music, Jazz Missa Brevis (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:32 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Signum Records
Passion Music was commissioned for the choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields and continues the fusion of jazz and choral music so successfully blended in Mass in Blue. The structure highlights different points in the Passion story, beginning with a new setting of ‘Greater love has no man’ and including an evocative Stabat Mater, a movement focusing on the seven last words of Christ, and a setting of ‘Were you there when they crucified my Lord?’.
The Jazz Missa Brevis gives new life to the sung Latin Mass texts in an accessible, short setting which embraces a variety of jazz styles, from the swinging jazz waltz Kyrie to the up-beat Latin-groove Gloria. The smooth jazz ballad Sanctus, 7/8 Benedictus and soulful Agnus Dei complete this inspiring Mass setting.
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