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

Maltese premiere:
14 February 2026
Byron Consort, Philip Evans, St Paul’s Cathedral, Mdina, Malta

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Score

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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

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