Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks
The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery
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...
Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks
The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery
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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...
About
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.
Contents and tracklist
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Rose Consort of Viols
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
- Marian Consort
- Rory McCleery
- Recorded: 8-11 January 2015
- Recording Venue: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, United States
Awards and reviews
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".
