Salve Regina (2019)
from Four Marian Antiphons (2019-20)
Votive antiphon
SATB
Duration:
4′
First performance:
06 October 2019
Novantae Singers, Andrew McTaggart, St John’s Church, Cumnock, UK
London premiere:
04 December 2019
City University Chamber Choir, Rory McCleery, St Clement’s Church, Finsbury, London, UK
Canadian premiere:
13 September 2020
Toronto Oratory Choir, Aaron James, Toronto Oratory, Toronto, Canada
American premiere:
22 October 2023
St Stephen’s Episcopal Church Choir, Brent te Velde, St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Score
Programme note
Salve Regina is a simple and sustained setting of the well-known Marian Antiphon. Its 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 clear ABA form, with simple textures and flowing melodies.
PAC
