Christmas with the Shepherds: Morales – Mouton – Stabile Ireland The Marian Consort and Rose

The Marian Consort and Rose Consort of Viols have kept faith with Baldwin’s own intentions

Piano: Steinway model D

left behind only a handful of published songs but a small trove of manuscripts

this landmark collection brings together McLeod’s four mythological ‘songs’ – powerful dramatic scenes in which instruments are elevated to voice-like expression – and a further work which crystallises the theme of a single moment with a long expressive ‘shadow’

featuring electric guitar and – as in so much of Dillon’s recent music – a prerecorded electronic track of immense mystery and power

Christmas with the Shepherds: Morales – Mouton – Stabile Ireland The Marian Consort and RoseSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO A Christmas programme with a difference: Rory McCleery and his acclaimed consort echo the shepherds noels through a motet by Jean Mouton which, astonishingly, remained in the repertoire of the Sistine Chapel for over a hundred years after its composition around 1515. So famous already by the middle of the century, when Cristbal de Morales was engaged as a singer in the papal chapel, it was inevitable that Moutons