Ave Regina Caelorum (2019)
from Four Marian Antiphons (2019-20)
Votive antiphon; Trope: ‘Funde, virgo’
SATB
Duration:
3′
First performance:
4 October 2019
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener, Cumnock Old Church, Cumnock, UK
French premiere:
30 July 2022
Caritas Chamber Choir, Benedict Preece, Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille Cathedral, Lille, France
American premiere:
18 February 2024
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church Choir, Brent te Velde, St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Score
Programme note
Ave Regina Caelorum is a simple setting of the well-known Marian Antiphon (though including a short section of the trope Funde, virgo). It carries on a current desire to write shorter, easier motets that are more accessible to a wider range of choirs, though still retaining the thumbprints of my mature style. The motet is in a simple ABA form, with a more expressive middle section bookended by contemplative, homophonic material and a sustained ‘Amen’.
PAC
Recording
Ave Regina Caelorum (2019) by Phillip Cooke, performed by Cappella Nova, conducted by Alan Tavener at St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen on 06 October 2019.
Ave Regina Caelorum (2019) by Phillip Cooke, performed by the Choral Scholars of St Mary's, Bayswater conducted by Alastair Carey at St Mary's, Bayswater, London, on 16 May 2021.
Caritas Chamber Choir | Benedict Preece; Lille Cathedral Summer Music Festival, France; Ave Regina by Phillip Cooke (French Premiere)
