The Merton Collection: Merton College at 750

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The Merton Collection: Merton College at 750SUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO In 2014, the University of Oxfords Merton College celebrates its 750th year. Benjamin Nicholas and Peter Phillips specially conceived journey through seven centuries of choral repertoire provides a birds eye view of some important moments in musical history, and features two composers personally associated with the College John Dunstaple and Lennox Berkeley as well as three new works commissioned for the anniversary

The gruesome murder of his first wife and her lover in flagrante

from penitential motets to Arcadelt’s Dum complerentur for Pentecost

this recording does justice to an unusual though worthwhile undertaking - one which has persuasively fulfilled its implicit brief to educate yet also entertain

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and he has them singing with relaxed authority and confidence

The central Intermezzo is characterised by extended double-stopping

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"Here we have the latest in a stream of major works which express [MacMillan’s] deeply held Catholicism

sing music by Taverner (the elder) with the sort of rapture and excitement that takes the breath away

Beautifully captured at Crear in Argyll by Delphian's Paul Baxter

singing with admirable weight of sound

"a bright sound with a ring of steel around it that is ideal for modern music"

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