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Songs of Angels
Music from Magdalen College (1480-1560)
Choir of Magdalen College Oxford
directed by Bill Ives
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"These young choral scholars are an impressive group of
musicians"
Jeremy Summerly, BBC Radio 3 CD Review
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Read what reviewers said about Magdalen’s previous performances:
"Hallelujah for Magdalen Choir"
Trinidad Gazette, September 2001 |
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"PERFECTION. What more can one say, or write, of the Magdalen
College Choir?"
Trinidad Newsday, 7 September 2001 |
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"...a thrilling, perfectly timed performance"
Oxford Times, 26 May 2000 |
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"Director Bill Ives conducts his forces with an assured
sense of balance between parts ... adult and boy choristers sing
with unerring pitch and fine phrasing"
ClassicsToday.com, 26 May 2000 |
Signum Records is delighted to
announce that the choir of Magdalen College Oxford will release their
first disc with Signum in early 2003. Entitled The Songs of Angels
the disc will consist of repertoire written by the distinguished 15th and
16th century Magdalen Informator Choristarum
 Click here to see a video of track 9
(1.5 Meg)
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| 1 |
Vespers Hymn Collaudemus Magdalene lachrymas, (Sarum
plainchant)
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[3:45] |
| 2 |
Stabat mater, Richard Davy (d. 1538) |
[15:10] |
| 3 |
Quales sumus, John Mason (fl. 1500-30) |
[11:34] |
| 4 |
Aspice Domine, Jacquet of Mantua (1483-1559) |
[5:56] |
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Resurrexi III, Thomas Preston (fl. 1540s) |
[3:01] |
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Magnificat antiphon Inclita sancte Marie Magdalene,
(Sarum plainchant)
Magnificat, Thomas Appleby (d. after 1563)
Magnificat antiphon Inclita sancte Marie Magdalene, (Sarum plainchant) |
[14:49] |
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Offertory Confessio et pulchritudo, Preston |
[4:11] |
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Dum transisset sabbatum, John Sheppard (d. 1558)
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[7:22] |
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Pater noster, Sheppard |
[4:11] |
| 10 |
Libera nos, Sheppard |
[3:02] |
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Total running time: |
[74:16] |
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