Ave Maria, mater Dei (2017)

Choral: SacredMotets

1 Dec

Written By Tobias 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

SATBOff-Stage Sopranos

Tobias Wolf

Tobias Wolf is a photographer, musician and artist based in North East Scotland. With a background in conducting, composition and hybrid media, his creative practice has long been shaped by an interest in atmosphere, structure and the relationship between sound, image and place. Photography has been a lifelong companion — a way of slowing down, noticing light, and finding quiet meaning in everyday scenes.

https://www.tpwolf.com