Ave Regina

ISBN-13: 9780193355576 / Angielski

UK Oxfor UK Oxford Univ. iversity

Opis

for SSATB unaccompanied No. 1 of McDowall's 'Three Latin Motets', Ave Regina is a gentle and lyrical setting of the text 'Hail, Queen of the Heavens'. The calm and memorable opening phrase is hinted at in passages of more intensity, and its partial statement at the end leaves it lingering after the voices have faded away.

Recenzje

A gentle and lyrical response to the 'Queen of the heavens . . . from whom the light came into the world'. In fifty-five bars McDowall's sparing Ave Regina is truly trenchant, so too is its scope; with the highlighting of key words glowingly effective.

O autorze

Cecilia McDowall has been described by the International Record Review as having a 'communicative gift that is very rare in modern music. An award-winning composer, McDowall is often inspired by extra-musical influences, and her choral writing combines rhythmic vitality with expressive lyricism. Her music has been commissioned, performed, and recorded by leading choirs, among them the BBC Singers, The Sixteen, and Oxford and Cambridge choirs and is regularly programmed at prestigious festivals in Britain and abroad. In 2017 McDowall was selected for an Honorary Fellow award by the Royal School of Church Music.