A Rose Magnificat – Paul McCreesh

   in Choir & Organ (Sep, 2018)
Released in Mary’s month of May, this bouquet of Marian blooms, garnered from five centuries of British music, finds Tallis, White, Sheppard and Wylkynson gathered with Leighton, Warlock, MacMillan, Owain Park, Howells, Jonathan Lane, and Matthew Martin’s exquisitely challenging title work. The rapt devotional ecstasy implicit in these most fragrant of motets, hymns and antiphons is captured with gorgeous tone and balance, a magnificent dynamic and emotional spectrum, and a lovely patina on the recorded sound – the sonic equivalent of clouds of ‘Rosa Mystica’ incense, rising to the rafters on wafts of devotional loveliness. …