O Maria, virgo pia Oriel College Chapel Choir, Oxford, Craig Ogden, Grace Davidson, Tippett Quartet, Alexander Pott & David Maw

• Anonymous: O Maria, virgo pia
• 1 Anonymous: O Maria, virgo pia 02:20
• Judith Bingham (b. 1952): Oriel Service:
• 2 Bingham: Oriel Service, Magnificat 05:02
• 3 Bingham: Oriel Service, Nunc dimittis 04:13
• David Maw (b. 1967): I sing of a maiden:
• 4 Maw: I sing of a maiden 03:11
• David Briggs (b. 1962): Hail, gladdening light:
• 5 Briggs: Hail, gladdening light 04:36
• Edmund Fellowes (1870 - 1951): Hymn of the Third Choir:
• 6 Fellowes: Hymn of the Third Choir: Praise to the holiest 03:29
• 7 Fellowes: Hymn of the Third Choir: The angels as beseemingly 03:26
• 8 Fellowes: Hymn of the Third Choir: But to the younger race 02:28
• 9 Fellowes: Hymn of the Third Choir: Praise to the holiest 03:25
• James Whitbourn (1963 - 2024): Solitude:
• 10 Whitbourn: Solitude 06:12
• Mark R. Taylor (b. 1961): Say not, the struggle naught availeth:
• 11 Taylor: Say not, the struggle naught availeth 03:55
• John Caldwell (b. 1938): Phos hilaron:
• 12 Caldwell: Phos hilaron 02:35
• Herbert Chappell (1934 - 2019): Psalm 150:
• 13 Chappell: Psalm 150 01:51
• Anonymous: The Glory of Zion:
• 14 Anonymous: The Glory of Zion 03:43
• Anonymous: Verbum caro:
• 15 Anonymous: Verbum caro 05:50
• Anonymous: Benedictus:
• 16 Anonymous: Benedictus 04:33
• Anonymous: Magnificat:
• 17 Anonymous: Magnificat 06:51
• Anonymous: O Maria, virgo pia:
• 18 Anonymous: O Maria, virgo pia 04:34
• Total Runtime 01:12:14

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Anlässlich des 700-jährigen Jubiläums des Oriel College widmet sich diese einzigartige Sammlung den vielfältigen musikalischen Traditionen, die mit dem Oriel College verbunden sind. Ausgehend von Quellen aus der mittelalterlichen Marienverehrung bis hin zur Oxford-Bewegung und von den Werken bedeutender Fellows bis hin zu zeitgenössischen Auftragswerken für den Kapellenchor untersucht sie den Einfluss und die Inspiration der Gelehrten, Dichter und Musiker des Colleges über sieben Jahrhunderte hinweg und zeichnet die sich entwickelnde Beziehung zwischen dem College und seinem kulturellen Leben nach.

Alexander Pott, Orgel
Tippett Quartet
Grace Davidson, Sopran
Craig Ogden, Gitarre
Oriel College Chapel Choir, Oxford
David Maw, Dirigent

Grace Davidson
Light, bright, agile and pure are all words that have been used to describe Grace Davidson’s voice. Yet beneath the gleaming surface of her crystalline sound and pinpoint technical accuracy lie rich reserves of emotional intelligence and expressive artistry. The British soprano’s vocal and intuitive armoury enable her to project the vivid contrasts of mood at the heart of her favourite medieval, Renaissance and Baroque repertoire with near-divine ease, especially so in the works of Hildegard von Bingen, Monteverdi, J.S. Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.

Her discography includes over a decade of recordings, many of which feature her as a soloist, as well as solo discs with music by Hildegard von Bingen and John Dowland. Grace has also forged fruitful relationships with many contemporary and film composers such as Joe Hisaishi, Harry Gregson Williams, Hanz Zimmer, Howard Shore and Eric Whitacre, but most notably Max Richter who chose her as the solo voice in his 8-hour piece Sleep which has been performed all over the world, including Sydney Opera House and The Great Wall of China.

Alexander Pott
is an organist, conductor, and academic active in Oxford, Cambridge, and London. From 2017 he spent eight years as Assistant Organist and Tutor to the Choristers at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was fortunate to be involved in the building and celebration of the new Eule instrument. As part of these celebrations, he improvised accompaniment to a silent film, and performed the complete organ works of J. S. Bach across two terms, in the process raising over £10,000 for Great Ormond Street Charity.

As an academic, his specialism is in the music of Frederick Delius, which is the subject of his PhD at the University of Cambridge. This specialism also feeds into his performance interests, notably through The Delius Singers, a choir he founded and directs in Oxford. He is in demand as a recitalist, conductor, and teacher, and is known particularly for his innovative programming of choral and organ music with education at its centre.

His organist training took place at Christ Church, Oxford and Westminster Cathedral, supplemented by support from the Musicians’ Company and the Eric Thompson Trust, and his academic training has been supported by the Delius Trust.

Craig Ogden
Described by BBC Music Magazine as “A worthy successor to Julian Bream“, Australian born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the most exciting artists of his generation. He studied guitar from the age of seven and percussion from the age of thirteen. In 2004, he became the youngest instrumentalist to receive a Fellowship Award from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. One of the UK’s most recorded guitarists, he has accumulated an acclaimed discography for Chandos, Virgin/EMI, Nimbus, Hyperion, Sony and six chart-topping albums for Classic FM. His most recent recordings are a solo recital disc for Chandos, Craig Ogden in Concert and a new arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach with violinist David Juritz and cellist Tim Hugh for Nimbus Records.

Craig Ogden has performed concertos with many of the world’s leading orchestras in countries including Latvia, Russia, South Africa, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Germany and Australia. In recent seasons he has performed with the Hallé, BBC Concert Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra (Spain), Darwin Symphony Orchestra (Australia), Spanish Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Dublin), London Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. In 2015, Craig was invited to perform a series of concerts on tour with the Royal Northern Sinfonia at major UK concert halls and again in 2016 with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and the English Chamber Orchestra, both tours receiving critical acclaim. In 2019, Craig presented his own programme of “The Celebration of the Guitar” with Manchester Camerata which showcased the guitar in various styles. This season Craig performs concertos with orchestras including the BBC Concert Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Oulu Symphony Orchestra (Finland) and Ulster Orchestra.

Numerous composers have written works specially for him and in 2017 he gave the world première of a concerto written for him by Andy Scott with the Northern Chamber Orchestra at Stoller Hall, Manchester, followed by the Australian première in Perth. He gave the world première of Il Filo, a double concerto for guitar and accordion by David Gordon with Miloš Milivojević in summer 2019 and gave the world première of a concerto written for him by David Knotts in March 2022 at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London with the BBC Concert Orchestra which was recorded for BBC Radio 3, filmed for BBC4 TV and currently available on BBC iPlayer. In July 2022, Craig gave the world première of Isolation Songs (Without Words) a new guitar concerto written for him by William Lovelady with the English Chamber Orchestra for Music in Country Churches with HM The King in attendance. The work received its London première in November 2022 at Cadogan Hall. In January 2023, Craig gave the world première of a guitar concerto by Greg Caffrey with the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast, recorded for BBC Radio 3.

David Maw
is Fellow and Director of Music at Oriel College and a Lecturer in Music at Christ Church, holding the title of Associate Professor in Music at the University of Oxford. He is active in musical scholarship, composition and performance and has won prizes in each of these domains.

His scholarly publications have ranged widely across the history of music, with significant work on polyphonic composition and theory in the fourteenth century and on chamber music and improvisation in the twentieth century. He is currently engaged in the creation of an online edition of the musical works of Guillaume de Machaut.

As a performer, he has directed choirs and vocal groups and worked as a keyboard player in solo and ensemble contexts, developing particular specialisation in various genres of improvisation. His output of compositions includes works for a variety of genres, solo and ensemble.

Oriel College Chapel Choir
is a group of mixed-voice singers drawn from the student body. Up to sixteen choral scholars lead the ensemble. Their vocal development is supervised by Kari Moffatt. The choir sings full choral services each week during term-time through the academic year. It draws widely on the historical repertory of sacred choral music and is committed to the on-going development of that tradition.

In 2017, it premiered the cantata Hymn of the Third Choir of Angelicals (1895) by the distinguished music historian and editor, Edmund Fellowes (college alumnus). It has also commissioned new works from such composers as Judith Bingham, David Briggs, Herbert Chappell (college alumnus), Phillip A. Cooke, Kenneth Hesketh and Mark R. Taylor.

The commissioning of Judith Bingham’s Magnificat celebrated thirty years of female students at Oriel College. The choir cultivates a warm, blended tone ideally suited to the intimate and focused acoustic of the college’s seventeenth-century chapel.

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