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The Marian Consort - A Winged Woman (2023)

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The Marian Consort - A Winged Woman (2023)

The Marian Consort - A Winged Woman (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 246 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 162 Mb | 01:10:03
Classical, Sacred, Vocal | Label: Linn Records

Following an album dedicated to the forgotten Renaissance master Vicente Lusitano (Gramophone Editor’s Choice, Der Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik Quarterly Critic’s Choice), The Marian Consort makes an enthralling leap forward to the present day. True to its core mission of expanding the vocal repertoire, A Winged Woman showcases the ensemble’s commissions from a crop of the UK’s finest composers – including seven world premiere recordings – with music by Dani Howard, James MacMillan, Electra Perivolaris, Howard Skempton, Chloe Knibbs and others. The works challenge traditions and tropes in imaginative and refreshing ways, bringing together a rich array of musical styles and textual approaches. As Perivolaris’s titular work makes clear, this album puts centre stage the compelling work of some of today’s most exciting women composers.

Rory McCleery, The Marian Consort - Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)

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Rory McCleery, The Marian Consort - Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)

Rory McCleery, The Marian Consort - Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 68:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Linn Records | # CKD 694 | Recorded: 2022

Following its digital debut on Linn presenting a triptych of works by Josquin des Prez, Vicente Lusitano and Roderick Williams, The Marian Consort now focuses its attention on the central figure of this trio, the ‘Portuguese’.

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery, The Illyria Consort, Bojan Čičić - Adriatic Voyage (2021)

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The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery, The Illyria Consort, Bojan Čičić - Adriatic Voyage (2021)

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery, The Illyria Consort, Bojan Čičić - Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-century music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 264 Mb | Total time: 58:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian Records | # DCD34260 | Recorded: 2000

In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both Italians and Slavs, and of strategic importance since it was exposed to constant Turkish threats from the Balkan hinterland.

The Marian Consort - Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)

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The Marian Consort - Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)

The Marian Consort - Vicente Lusitano: Motets (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 282 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:08:18
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Linn Records

Vicente Lusitano’s earliest biographer, writing two centuries after his death around 1561, omitted to mention that the composer’s mother was most likely a Black African enslaved by Portuguese colonialists. Choral ensemble The Marian Consort and its unflappable director, Rory McCleery, dive deep into the sacred motets of Lusitano’s Liber primus epigramatum, the first-ever publication of works by a Black composer. Their choice of 10 pieces reveals the striking breadth of invention, subtle textures and harmonies, and sheer beauty of his music, with each of those qualities present in full measure in the sublime Emendemus in melius (Track 7) and Sancta mater, istud agas (Track 9). There’s room, too, for the meandering melodies of Heu me, Domine (Track 6), with its startling chromatic lines, and Inviolata, integra et casta es (Track 10) for eight voices, a consummate magnum opus of Renaissance polyphony.

The Marian Consort - Josquin, Lusitano & Williams: Inviolata (2022)

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The Marian Consort - Josquin, Lusitano & Williams: Inviolata (2022)

The Marian Consort - Josquin, Lusitano & Williams: Inviolata (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 120 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 74 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:31:02
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Linn Records

This triptych of Inviolata settings marks the beginning of The Marian Consort’s new relationship with Linn, and serves as something of a mission statement: interrogating the music of the past; reviving important, unjustly forgotten works; and using both as inspiration for new compositions.

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)

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The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery, The Illyria Consort & Bojan Čičić - Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 255 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 137 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:26
Classical, Vocal | Label: Delphian Records

In March 1575, a party led by the Venetian diplomat Giacomo Soranzo set out on a mission to Constantinople. They sailed down the Istrian coast, along the length of present-day Croatia, and on to the Bay of Kotor. Much of the land they passed was the territory of the Serenissima – inhabited by both Italians and Slavs, and of strategic importance since it was exposed to constant Turkish threats from the Balkan hinterland.

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Jean Maillard: Missa Je suis Déshéritée (2013)

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The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Jean Maillard: Missa Je suis Déshéritée (2013)

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Jean Maillard: Missa Je suis Déshéritée (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 70:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34130 | Recorded: 2012

Jean Maillard's life is shrouded in mystery, and his music is rarely heard today. Yet in his own time his works were both influential and widely known: indeed, the musicologist François Lesure held him to be one of the most important French composers of his era. Who better, then, than Rory McCleery's Marian Consort to give this composer's rich and varied output its first dedicated recording? Their characteristically precise and yet impassioned performances bring out both the network of influence in which Maillard's music participated its Josquin-esque pedigree, and influence on successors including Lassus and Palestrina and its striking, individual beauty.

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - O Virgo Benedicta: Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold (2010)

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The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - O Virgo Benedicta: Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold (2010)

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - O Virgo Benedicta: Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 346 Mb | Total time: 75:10 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34086 | Recorded: 2010

For their debut recording, the six-strong Marian Consort explores music from late 16th- and early 17th-century Spain. This fascinating programme celebrates the rich compositional fruits of the Siglo de Oro’s intensely competitive musical culture. These luminary works, all dedicated to the Virgin Mary, demand performances of great intelligence and vocal commitment. The youthful Marians respond absolutely, bringing hushed intimacy and bristling excitement to some of the most gorgeously searing lines in the history of European polyphony.

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Christmas with the Shepherds (2014)

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The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Christmas with the Shepherds (2014)

The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery - Christmas with the Shepherds (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 276 Mb | Total time: 62:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34145 | Recorded: 2014

A Christmas programme with a difference: Rory McCleery and his acclaimed consort echo the shepherds’ noels through a motet by Jean Mouton which, astonishingly, remained in the repertoire of the Sistine Chapel for over 100 years after its composition around 1515. So famous already by the middle of the century, when Cristóbal de Morales was engaged as a singer in the papal chapel, that Mouton’s motet would form the basis for a mass by Morales; and, later still, a new motet to the same text by Annibale Stabile. A world premiere recording of the latter work crowns this unique programme, drawn from new performing editions by McCleery himself.

The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery - Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks (2015)

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The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery - Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks (2015)

The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery - Loquebantur: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 297 Mb | Total time: 66:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34160 | Recorded: 2015

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, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery - An Emerald in a Work of Gold (2012)

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The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery - An Emerald in a Work of Gold (2012)

The Marian Consort, Rose Consort of Viols, Rory McCleery - An Emerald in a Work of Gold (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 350 Mb | Total time: 72:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Delphian | # DCD34115 | Recorded: 2012

For its second Delphian recording, The Marian Consort have leafed through the beautifully calligraphed pages of the partbooks compiled in Oxford between 1581 and 1588 by the Elizabethan scholar Robert Dow, to present a deeply satisfying sequence of some of their brightest jewels. Sumptuous motets, melancholy consort songs and intricate, harmonically daring viol fantasies are seamlessly interwoven, all brought to life by seven voices and the robust plangency of the Rose Consort of Viols in the chapel of All Souls College, Oxford – where Dow himself was once a Fellow.