O Virgo Benedicta: Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold

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O Virgo Benedicta: Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of GoldSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO A six strong Marian Consort explores music from late sixteenth and early seventeenth century Spain, in a programme celebrating the rich compositional legacy of the Siglo del Oros intensely competitive musical culture. These luminous works centred on the figure of the Virgin Mary demand performances of great intelligence and vocal commitment, and the youthful singers respond absolutely, bringing hushed intimacy and

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Ferries evokes the period with panache and breathtakingly virtuosic flair

though almost to a fault when the sheer lucidity refuses to surrender to the heat of the moment…deftly characterised

stained with mud and blood

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many of them written for him

that delivers singing of sublime and exquisite beauty"

inscrutable and self-contained

the resonant acoustic of All Hallows’ has been harnessed to good effect

finesse and blazingly evident musical sympathy

and there is a tangible sense of the well-made in each of these carefully put together works