Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks

The most striking feature of this entertainingly varied collection is the consistently fresh, fruit-ripe tonal quality of the Marian Consort's singing…sensitive unison singing, and a firm bass... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Release Date: 2nd Oct 2015
Catalogue No: DCD34160
Label: Delphian
Length: 66 minutes

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Parsons, R: The Song Called Trumpets

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Mundy, W: Adolescentulus sum ego

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Byrd: Canon 6 in 1

Work length1:37

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Byrd: O salutaris hostia

Work length2:30

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Aston, H: Hugh Ashton's Maske

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Dericke Gerarde: Sive Vigilem

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Bevin: Browning a 3

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Ferrabosco, A I: Da pacem Domine

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Lassus: Ubi est Abel

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Hollander, C: Dum transisset Sabbatum

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Tallis: Suscipe quaeso Domine

Work length7:54

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Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Taverner: Psalm 41 "Quemadmodum"

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Mundy, W: Adhaesit pavimento

Work length7:09

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Baldwine: Coockow As I Me Walked

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Rose Consort of Viols
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

Sheppard, J: Ave maris stella

Work length5:52

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Marian Consort
Rory McCleery
Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States

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John Baldwin was a lay clerk at St George’s Chapel, Windsor in 1575 and became a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal in 1598. The so-called ‘Baldwin Partbooks’, held at Christ Church, Oxford, were his creation – a very personal collection, representing his individual tastes and interests from a wealth of English and Continental polyphony and consort music.

As in their previous collaboration, an exploration of the similarly conceived partbooks of Robert Dow, the Marian Consort and Rose Consort of Viols have kept faith with Baldwin’s own intentions, bringing to light some of the rarer gems preserved by this great advocate and music-lover and providing the listener with ‘such sweete musicke: as dothe much delite yeelde’. The Marian Consort has to date released four CDs with Delphian Records which have met with considerable critical acclaim. The ensemble’s most recent release, of a Christmas mass and motets by Jean Mouton, Cristóbal de Morales and Annibale Stabile (DCD34145), was ‘Christmas Choice’ in BBC Music magazine.

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November 2015

The most striking feature of this entertainingly varied collection is the consistently fresh, fruit-ripe tonal quality of the Marian Consort's singing…sensitive unison singing, and a firm bass lead from Christopher Borrett set Sheppard's Ave maris stella purposefully in motion. Interpretively it's the programme's finest performance, the pacing more poised and flexible, the text responded to with notable insight and maturity.

CD Review 10th October 2015

a bright, finely tuned sound…in an attractively balanced recording.

10th October 2015

there is…programmatic integrity and a convincing ebb and flow between them.

Early Music Today June 2016

The Marian Consort has built an enviable reputation for coolly poised and precisely balanced performances and indeed there are times here when the listener can only sit back and admire, seduced by the sheer beauty of sound.

Classical Music August 2015

[an] engaging and thoughtfully planned programme … it is a measure of his [John Baldwin] discriminating, adventurous taste as well as the commitment and talent of the performers here recorded so well, that there is not a single unappealing moment. Be equally adventurous and investigate!

Cathedral Music

The splendid Marian Consort sings the music beautifully... to quote Baldwin himself, this thoroughly recommended disc provides "such sweete musicke: as dothe much delite yeelde".

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