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Music from Magdalen Susan Hitch (Fellow 1996-2002) Fiona Hodges JOHN SHEPPARD RICHARD DAVY JOHN MASON CORO CORO We would like to thank the President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford for all their help and assistance with this project. All music edited by Bernard Rose and his pupils: plainsong edited by David Hiley (1965-68) Davy in MS edited Bernard Rose and Harry Christophers Mason in MS edited Bernard Rose Sheppard published Oxenford Imprint edited David Wulstan (1960-63, Lecturer 1968-78) except Sheppard Magnificat and O happy Dames edited Roger Bray (1962-65) Text translations by: Recording Producer: Gregory Rose (1967-70) Colin Hardie (Fellow 1936-73) Recording Engineer: Geoff Miles (Floating Earth) Oliver Taplin (Fellow 1973- ) Recorded at Magdalen College, Oxford, 3-5 January 1997 Music from Magdalen Susan Hitch (Fellow 1996-2002) Fiona Hodges JOHN SHEPPARD RICHARD DAVY JOHN MASON Cover image: Iain Anstess 2007 The Sixteen Productions Ltd. Design: Andrew Giles © 2007 The Sixteen Productions Ltd. N THE MAGDALEN COLLECTION H A R RY CHRISTOPHERS cor16049 On three very cold days in January 1997, I brought MUSIC FROM MAGDALEN together twenty ex-Academical Clerks of Magdalen College, Oxford. The friendship generated by the assembled singers, which spanned 30 years of students, 1 PLAINSONG Magnificat antiphon: Inclita sancte (Mode 1) 1.13 was electric. Old friends were reunited and new friends 2 JOHN SHEPPARD (d.1559) Magnificat a4 (Mode 1) 9.35 were made. 3 JOHN SHEPPARD O happy dames 2.02 The purpose was to preserve a very unique Magdalen solo: Robin Blaze (alto1), William Purefoy (alto 2), sound and put down on disc, for posterity, the music of David Roy (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass) Magdalen organists from the C16th. These composers all had claim to the honourable title of Informator 4 JOHN MASON (d.1548) Vae nobis miseris 11.43 Choristarum (Master of the Choristers) from a period verse: David James (alto 1), Angus Davidson (alto 2), of English music which was so prolific. As luck would James Oxley (tenor 1), David Roy (tenor 2), Peter Harvey (bass) have it, a lot of the music of these composers survived the Reformation and so we were able to present works 5 JOHN SHEPPARD Laudem dicite Deo 7.39 by three successive Magdalen composers, Richard 6 RICHARD DAVY (d.1507) Joan is sick and ill at ease 5.37 Davy, John Mason and the amazing John Sheppard, verse: Angus Davidson (alto), David Roy (tenor), whose three sublime settings of In manus tuas are set Peter Harvey (bass) alongside the joy and exhilaration of Laudem dicite Deo 7 JOHN SHEPPARD In manus tuas I 3.35 Bernard Rose 1916 –1996 and Spiritus sanctus. This is truly great music from a character whose waywardness at Oxford is legendary. 8 JOHN SHEPPARD In manus tuas II 3.47 For us all to return to Magdalen and perform this 9 JOHN SHEPPARD In manus tuas III 3.12 music in the chapel in which it was first heard 500 years ago was in itself inspirational; to bl JOHN SHEPPARD Spiritus sanctus I 7.56 dedicate our performances to the man who had been our Informator Choristarum, our tutor and master of music, was an added honour. Bernard Rose had died at the end of the bm PLAINSONG Magnificat antiphon: In diebus illis (Mode 7) 1.51 previous year and it was him we must all thank for our love of Tudor music. He devoted his bn RICHARD DAVY Ah, mine heart, remember thee well 5.08 life not only to detailed scholarship, but also to performance; more than all of that, however, verse: Robin Blaze (alto), Stuart Beer (tenor), it was his inspiration and loyalty to his students for which we are eternally grateful. Jonathan Arnold (bass) This is a very special recording, performed by singers committed to their art and their bo JOHN MASON Quales sumus 10.54 love of Magdalen. verse: Robin Blaze (alto 1), William Purefoy (alto 2), James Oxley (tenor 1), David Roy (tenor 2), Jonathan Arnold (bass) 2 3 Magdalen Music and Musicians and Eton) who founded Magdalen College, THE MAGDALEN COLLECTION Oxford in 1458, with 4 chaplains, 8 clerks, 16 he lavishness of choral provision in choristers and an informator. The importance Alto: Robin Barda (clerk 1967-70) T educational institutions founded in of this increase in musical provision cannot the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries be overstated, for it provided many places Robin Blaze (chorister 1981-84, clerk 1989-92) was of crucial importance to the music Angus Davidson (clerk 1982-85) for singers and laid great emphasis upon composed for them to sing, making it the boys; musical training as well as their Peter Hayward (clerk 1973-76) possible for composers to write music for general education. It also led in due course David James (clerk 1969-72) ever larger forces, as we may see from this to an outpouring of polyphonic music for William Purefoy (clerk 1986-89) music for Magdalen written in the early years these new choirs to sing, a new kind of of the sixteenth century. This stems from John Saunders (clerk 1967-70) music reflecting the size of the choirs and William of Wykehams's music establishment the rapidly increasing skill of the singers. Tenor: Stuart Beer (clerk 1971-74) at New College, Oxford (founded 1379) Accepting that much of the music composed Paul Elliott (clerk 1969-72) and Winchester College (1382), 3 clerks, 16 around 1500 must have been lost, we can choristers in either case, with an informator still see that the musicans associated with Mark Milhofer (clerk 1987-90) choristarum (choirmaster) added at New James Oxley (clerk 1984-87) these new collegiate institutions are the College from 1394/5 and at Winchester predominant influence of the period. Keith Parker (clerk 1973-76) from 1396/7, which started a trend in other Richard Price (clerk 1968-71) establishments founded or influenced by Magdalen College Chapel was begun in David Roy (clerk 1966-67) those connected with these two institutions: 1474 and finished in about 1480, in 1476 Henry Chichele, who founded All Souls we find the first record of the appointment Bass: Jonathan Arnold (clerk 1989-92) College, Oxford in 1438, with 3 clerks and 6 of musicians to serve in it, presumably at Roger Bray (clerk 1962-65) choristers, and Robert Beckington, who was first a temporary structure; in 1481 we find the first record of the existence of an organ, James Gowings (clerk 1969-72) secretary to Henry VI who founded Eton and King's College, Cambridge in 1440/1, and in 1484 the first record of payment for Peter Harvey (clerk 1978-81) each with 10 clerks and 16 choristers. music copied (30 shillings for copying and William Robinson (chorister 1956-58, clerk 1966-69) This was precisely the time when music paper 'de sett sont'). When finished the Francis Steele (clerk 1972-75) was developing from performance by one chapel obviously set a new standard and Lawrence Wallington (clerk 1975-78) voice per part to choral (many voices per certainly impressed the Fellows of Merton, part) This influence continued in the hands because in 1486 they decided to build a Conductor: Harry Christophers (clerk 1973-77) of William of Wayneflete (of Winchester new rood-loft in Merton Chapel; this is the 4 5 screen between the chapel and the ante- incidentally, how the Merton scribe captures featured on this disc, John Mason (informator musicians as musicological and historical chapel above which a large cross ('rood') the pronunciation of 'Magdalen' even at this 1509-10), Thomas Appleby (1539-41) and scholarship developed. Stainer was an early was sometimes suspended, on which the early date, however flexible his spelling. John Sheppard (various periods between exponent of this early musicology with organ was placed, and from which parts of 1542 and 1548). Choirmaster/organists/ his edition (1901) of music by Dufay from All the Magdalen repertoire of this early some services were sung or declaimed, or, as composers of the seventeenth century manuscripts housed in the Bodleian Library. period is lost, though it is likely that the the building specification for King's College include Richard Nicolson (1595-1639), So, through nearly five and a half centuries newly refounded Christ Church, Canterbury Chapel, Cambridge stated, 'be hynde the the first Heather Professor of Music at since the foundation of the College, many (Canterbury Cathedral) in 1540 used Provostes stall unto the qwere dore vi fote, Oxford University in 1626 and composer of of its choirmasters and organists have also the Magdalen repertoire as the source for a wey into the Rodelofte for redying madrigals, instrumental music and anthems been composers, scholars and editors. of parts for the new collection it had to and syngyng and for the organs and other including a well-known setting of a text build up rather rapidly after dissolution This disc was conceived as a tribute, and manere observance there to be had after associated with St Mary Magdalen, 'When and refoundation. Some of the works in became a memorial, to Bernard Rose the Rewles of the Churche of Salesbury'. Jesus sat at meat', Benjamin Rogers (1665- its collection (in what are now known as (informator 1957-81), who followed The competitive Merton Fellows specified 86) and Daniel Purcell (1688-95), brother the Peterhouse part-books), including the energetically in this tradition, for he was a loft 'to be made lyke unto the Rodeloft of Henry and himself a composer. Most of works by Mason, appear to have a Magdalen organist, choir-trainer, composer, scholar and of Mawdelen College in Oxford', but 'to the eighteenth century is covered by the connection. A Magdalen College inventory editor par excellence.
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