Ave Maria, mater Dei (2017)

Choral: SacredMotets

1 Dec

Written By Tobias Patrick Wolf

A setting of an anonymous liturgical text

SATB with off-stage solo trebles/sopranos

For James MacMillan, with many thanks.

Commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen

Duration:
5′

First performance:
22 May 2018
The Sixteen, Harry Christopher, Choirboys of Eton College Chapel Choir, Eton College Chapel, Windsor, UK

Scottish premiere:
7 October 2018
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers, Trinity Church, Cumnock, UK

US premiere:
8 October 2022
Khorikos, Alec Galambos, St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Score

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Programme note

Ave Maria, mater Dei is a setting of the text set so imaginatively by William Cornysh in the Eton Choirbook. My work takes the text and uses it in a rhapsodic fashion with two off-stage sopranos augmenting the main choir. The text ‘Ave Maria, Mater Dei’ is used as a refrain throughout the piece moving back and forth from off-stage to main choir providing a narrative framework for the whole work.

PAC

Recording

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Ave Maria, mater Dei · The Sixteen · Phillip Cooke

SATBOff-Stage Sopranos

Tobias Patrick Wolf

Tobias is an award-winning German conductor and composer based in North East Scotland. He is Music Director of the renowned King’s Studio Orchestra (Scotland), the Braeside Singers (Aberdeen) and Principal Guest Conductor of the German Winds. Tobias is PhD researcher at the University of Aberdeen, exploring hybrid composition and performance practice. Sought after as guest conductor for ensembles around the globe, he brings new music to life — for audiences in the concert hall, on radio and television, and across multi-platform online streaming services.

https://www.tpwolf.com