Alger/Rbccc/Spicer - Rosa Mystica: Musical Portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Conductor Paul Spicer and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir return to SOMM Recordings with a ravishing, centuriesspanning recital of musical portraits of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Rosa Mystica takes its title from Benjamin Britten�s passionate setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins and forms the centrepiece of a programme ranging from the glorious Tudor polyphony of Nicholas Ludford�s motet Ave cujus conception via Bruckner�s dramatically contrasted Ave Maria to the Norwegian Ole Gjeilo�s apparently simple but sophisticated Second Eve, composed as recently as 2012.