Matthew Martin: Masses, Canticles, Motets Matthew Martin, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

• Matthew Martin (b. 1976):
• 1 Martin: Laudate Dominum 03:28
• 2 Martin: Missa Speravimus: I. Kyrie 00:58
• 3 Martin: Missa Speravimus: II. Gloria 03:42
• 4 Martin: Missa Speravimus: III. Sanctus 02:04
• 5 Martin: Missa Speravimus: IV. Agnus Dei 02:01
• 6 Martin: Haec dies 04:31
• 7 Martin: Sicut cervus 03:01
• 8 Martin: I Saw the Lord 11:27
• 9 Martin: Conditor alme siderum 02:33
• 10 Martin: Adam lay ybounden 03:04
• 11 Martin: I Sing of a Maiden 02:44
• 12 Martin: Angelus ad Virginem 04:00
• 13 Martin: Ave maris stella 05:06
• 14 Martin: A Hymn to St. Etheldreda 03:25
• 15 Martin: Vidi aquam 03:05
• 16 Martin: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier 02:53
• 17 Martin: A Prayer of St. Thérèse 03:23
• 18 Martin: The Oratory Mass: I. Kyrie 01:11
• 19 Martin: The Oratory Mass: II. Gloria 02:01
• 20 Martin: The Oratory Mass: III. Sanctus 01:09
• 21 Martin: The Oratory Mass: IV. Agnus Dei 01:30
• 22 Martin: Te lucis ante terminum 03:02
• 23 Martin: The St. John’s College Service: I. Magnificat 05:02
• 24 Martin: The St. John’s College Service: II. Nunc dimittis 03:18
• Total Runtime 01:18:38

Info for Matthew Martin: Masses, Canticles, Motets

Following its first album for Linn – a recording of motets by the English expatriates Philips and Dering – The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, travels a few centuries forward, turning now to the vibrant and engaging choral music by its Director of Music, Matthew Martin. The album showcases a collection of works written between 2004 and 2022, which includes some world premiere recordings. From simple mass and motet settings to more complex festival anthems and canticles, the music is broadly and unabashedly composed as an extension to a familiar twentieth-century English idiom, his varied style traversing both the Anglican and Catholic traditions with hints of less familiar European chant and polyphony. This is music choirs will wholeheartedly add to their repertoire.

The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
Matthew Martin, direction

Gonville & Caius College Choir
is a mixed choir of 24 voices. It is one of the UK’s leading collegiate choirs, with an international reputation for performances of exceptional quality but also for innovative and adventurous recordings. It tours regularly in the UK and around the world.

The College’s musical tradition began at the end of the nineteenth century with a choir of men and boys, founded by the celebrated composer of Anglican church music Charles Wood, and later became an exclusively undergraduate male choir under Wood’s successor the composer Patrick Hadley. Hadley was succeeded by Peter Tranchell, under whose direction the choir became mixed in 1979, and Geoffrey Webber directed the choir from 1989 until 2019. The current Director of Music (Precentor) is Matthew Martin.

Matthew Martin
is Precentor and Director of Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge where he is a fellow and directs the renowned college choir. He read Music at Magdalen College, Oxford, before studying at the Royal Academy of Music and (privately) under Marie-Claire Alain in Paris.

From 2015 to 2020 he was Director of Music at Keble College, Oxford, and Artistic Director of the Keble Early Music Festival. Matthew spent much of his early life immersed in cathedral music and in 2010, after six years as Assistant Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, he decided to focus more on composition.

Since then he has been commissioned to write music for many leading ensembles. He won the Liturgical category in the 2013 Ivors Composer Awards, and the first album of his choral music (Jubilate Deo) was recorded by Daniel Hyde and the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. He has written for the Cheltenham Music Festival (Trumpet Sonata) and The Tallis Scholars (Lamentations of Jeremiah).

His Rose Magnificat for Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort & Players won the Choral category in the 2019 BBC Music Magazine Awards. In 2019, he was asked to write a festival anthem (In the midst of thy Temple) for the choir of Westminster Abbey, marking the 750th anniversary of its refounding, and a test piece for organ (Triptych) for the 2019 St Albans International Organ Competition.

Most recently, he was commissioned to write a new carol (Angelus ad Virginem) for the 2022 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College, Cambridge, and is currently working on a major new work for The Tallis Scholars to be performed as part of Miller Theatre’s 2025-26 Early Music series in New York.

Matthew’s music is published by Novello and Faber Music.

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