Robert Parsons - Ave Maria (Cambridge Singers)

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Robert Parsons (c. 1535 - c. 1571):
AVE MARIA

Robert Parsons was an English composer. Not much is known about his life of him, but he was appointed Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (clergy, singers and vestry officers appointed to serve the spiritual needs of the country's reigning sovereign wherever he or she was residing) in October 1563. His work consisted of a number of sacred and secular vocal compositions, including this Ave Maria, as well as some instrumental pieces. He may have been a teacher of (or at least an influence on) William Byrd at Lincoln Cathedral. Byrd succeeded him as Gentleman of the Chapel Royal.

Ave Maria is probably his best-known work, a motet of appropriately feminine loveliness and radiance. An interesting feature of íts structure is that the soprano part of the opening section makes a series of six entries, each one beginning one note higher than the one before. The effect is of rising excitement and ecstasy.

Ave Maria, gratia plena,
Dominus tecum:
Benedicta tu in mulieribus,
Et benedictus fructus ventris tui.
Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace,
The Lord is with thee:
Blessed art thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Amen.

The Cambridge Singers
Conducted by John Rutter

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