The music of Nicholas Ludford has been recovered only relatively recently. Few composers of his stature have been so comprehensively and so unjustly ignored for nearly five centuries. This recording presents one of his most accomplished ‘festal’ masses ‘Benedicta et Venerabilis’ and two of his extended antiphons.

Cast:

Choir of New College, Oxford

Trebles :
Matthew Clarke, Sebastian Cox, Hugh Cutting, William Ford,
Henry Jenkinson, William Hewstone, Horatio Holloway, Jake Mitson,
Jonathan Moloney, Philip Parker, Joshua Ridley, Lewis Spring,
Hector Stinton, James Swash, Oscar Talbot, Humphrey Thompson,
Richard Whittington

Altos :
Hugh Brunt, Dominic Burnham, Dana Marsh, Stephen Taylor

Ténors :
Adrian Lowe, Alex Clissold-Jones, James Brown, Alastair Putt

Basses :
Christopher Borrett (cantor), George Coltart, Thomas Edwards,
Jonathan Howard, Maxim Jones, David Newsholme, Thomas Osborne,
Duncan Saunderson

Orgue : Nicholas Wearne

Conductor: Edward Higginbottom

Program:

1 Antienne Ave cuius conceptio 8'03

MISSA BENEDICTA ET VENERABILIS
2 Introit : Salve sancta Parens 2'42
3 Gloria in excelsis Deo 9'07
4 Graduel : Benedicta et venerabilis 2'44
5 Alleluia : Post partum Virgo inviolata Alleluia 2'41
6 Credo in unum Deum 8'23
7 Offertoire : Ave Maria, gratia plena 1'58
8 Sanctus & Benedictus 10'02
9 Communion : Beata viscera 0'55
10 Agnus Dei 6'54

11 Antienne Domine Jesu Christe 9'42