Led by its Director Matthew Martin, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, joins forces with the Academy of Ancient Music in Michael Haydn’s rarely heard masterpieces: the Requiem and Missa Sancti Hieronymi. Unjustly neglected, Joseph Haydn’s younger brother was a talented composer in his own right.

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Haydn, M: Requiem in C Minor, MH 155 "Pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo"

I. Introitus. Requiem aeternam - Kyrie eleison
II. Sequentia. Dies Irae
III. Offertorium. Domine Jesu Christe
IV. Versus. Hostias et preces tibi
V. Sanctus
VI. Benedictus
VII. Agnus Dei - Lux aeterna
VIII. Cum sanctis tuis
IX. Requiem aeternam - Cum sanctis tuis

Haydn, M: Missa Sancti Hieronymi, MH 254

I. Kyrie
II. Gloria: No. 1, Et in terra pax
III. Gloria: No. 2, Quoniam tu solus Sanctus
IV. Credo: No. 1, Patrem omnipotentem
V. Credo: No. 2, Et resurrexit tertia die
VI. Sanctus
VII. Benedictus
VIII. Agnus Dei: No. 1, Agnus Dei
IX. Agnus Dei: No. 2, Dona nobis pacem

The album showcases a collection of works written by the choir’s Precentor, Matthew Martin, 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.

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Laudate Dominum
Missa Speravimus
I. Kyrie
II. Gloria
III. Sanctus
IV. Agnus Dei
Haec dies
Sicut cervus
I saw the Lord (In the Year that King Uzziah Died) Finlay A’Court (soloist)
Conditor alme siderum
Adam lay ybounden
I Sing of a Maiden Hannah Brooks-Hughes (soloist)
Angelus ad Virginem
Ave maris stella
A Hymn to St. Etheldreda
Vidi aquam
Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
A Prayer of St. Thérèse
The Oratory Mass
I. Kyrie
II. Gloria
III. Sanctus
IV. Agnus Dei
Te lucis ante terminum
The St. John’s College Service
I. Magnificat
II. Nunc dimittis

Philips & Dering: Motets offers a fresh insight into the lives and works of two expatriate English Catholic composers exiled to Flanders at the time of the Reformation.

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Philips: Ecce vicit Leo
Philips: Loquebantur variis linguis
Dering: Jesu dulcedo cordium
Philips: Pavan and Galliard 'Deloroso Tregian' (FVB11,2)
Dering: Factum est silentium
Philips: Ave Jesu Christe
Dering: Virgo prudentissima
Philips: Ut re mi fa sol la
Philips: Jubilate Deo
Dering: O bone Jesu
Philips: Gaudens gaudebo
Dering: Fantasia a 5
Philips: Christus resurgens
Philips: Salve regina
Dowland: Paduan a 4
Dering: Quem vidistes pastores?