Ave Maria - Anton Bruckner, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers
8. 'Ave Maria'
From the album ‘Hail! Queen of Heaven’
Composer Anton Bruckner
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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LYRICS:
Ave Maria, gratia plena; Dominus tecum: benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris
tui Jesus [Christus]. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus, nunc et in hora mortis
nostrae. Amen.
(Prayer before Divine Office)
(Hail Mary, full of grace! The Lord is with thee: blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is
the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.)
Ave Maria
Born to a devout Austrian family, the son of an organist and a distinguished organist himself, Bruckner not unexpectedly wrote a significant amount of sacred choral music. The present Ave Maria (one of three settings he made of the text) was written in 1861 while the composer was organist of Linz Cathedral, and it marked the end of a period of contrapuntal studies during which Bruckner was forbidden by his teacher Sechter to write ‘free’ compositions. Released from the ban, his creativity flowered in this simple but powerful motet, rooted clearly in the Viennese tradition but pointing towards Bruckner’s symphonic achievements to come.
Hail! Queen of Heaven
This recording, made in the architecturally and acoustically glorious setting of the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral by the 28 mixed voices of the Cambridge Singers, gathers together 21 examples of the extraordinary wealth of choral music inspired by the Virgin Mary, from Gregorian chant to the 20th-century sounds of Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, Pierre Villette, Igor Stravinsky and Giles Swayne.
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1983) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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