Special offer. Matthew Martin: Masses, Canticles, Motets
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, Matthew Martin
The choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, where Martin is director, provides a reassuringly traditional, transparent and disciplined choral blend, underpinned by exemplary organ playing – a...
Special offer. Matthew Martin: Masses, Canticles, Motets
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, Matthew Martin
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The choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, where Martin is director, provides a reassuringly traditional, transparent and disciplined choral blend, underpinned by exemplary organ playing – a...
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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.
Contents and tracklist
- Finlay A’Court, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and Matthew Martin, Finlay A’Court (soloist)
- The Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge
- Matthew Martin
- Hannah Brooks-Hughes, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge and Matthew Martin, Hannah Brooks-Hughes (soloist)
- The Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge
- Matthew Martin
Awards and reviews
January 2025
The choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, where Martin is director, provides a reassuringly traditional, transparent and disciplined choral blend, underpinned by exemplary organ playing – a perfect vehicle for this enjoyable and varied retrospective of a master craftsman’s work