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Track(s) taken from KGS0036-D

Bogoroditse Devo 'Rejoice, O virgin'

composer
1990
author of text
Ave Maria. Luke 1: 28

King's College Choir Cambridge, Sir Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
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Recording details: December 2018
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Simon Kiln
Engineered by Arne Akselberg
Release date: November 2019
Total duration: 1 minutes 16 seconds
 

Other recordings available for download

St George's Chapel Choir Windsor, James Vivian (conductor)
The King's Singers
St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)
King's College Choir Cambridge, Sir Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

Reviews

‘One senses throughout a judicious maintenance of familiar pillars … balanced with new elements such as the annual commissioned carol … and repertoire ranging from Medieval to composers from other traditions such as Arvo Pärt … the choir is generally in superb form, disciplined yet clearly relishing the music … superbly engineered, the recording vividly conjures the chapel’s unique acoustic’ (BBC Music Magazine)
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‘A very handsome memorial, with the refined, honeyed choir and atmospheric chapel acoustic in fine fettle, and a pleasing commissioned carol by Judith Weir, O mercy divine, accompanied solely by Guy Johnston’s fast-moving cello’ (The Times)

Composed in 1990 for Stephen Cleobury and The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, this is a setting of the Russian Orthodox version of the Ave Maria, Gabriel’s salutation to the virgin (Luke 1: 28). Pärt’s distinctive treatment of the text conveys the excitement of the approaching birth of Jesus, with alternations of duple and triple metre, and chant-like melodic repetitions, building to a joyous climax before subsiding into a mood of hushed awe.

from notes by John Heighway © 2019

Other albums featuring this work

100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
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Advent Live, Vol. 2
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Christmas at St George's Windsor
Studio Master: CDA68281Studio Master FLAC & ALAC downloads available
Christmas with the King's Singers
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