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Dating from the 15th and 16th Centuries (over 1000 years after the Saint’s death), this music demonstrates the universality and popularity of St Catharine of Alexandria. Although the music texts spell her name several ways, I use “Catharine” here to match the CD subtitle and the College in Cambridge, England, founded in 1473.

This is fine music, well chosen and performed.The program is a mix of chant and polyphony, using high and low voices. One of the choirs is the St Catharine’s Girls’ Choir, founded in 2008. Made up of 25 girls (ages 8-15 and drawn from local schools), it is the first and only college-based girls’ choir in the UK. The other choir is mixed adults. Soaring lines (such as in Vermont’s ‘Virgo Flagellatur’) have a fervent beauty; a lovely airborne sound well depicts the clarity of devotion (as in Gombert’s ‘Virgo Sancta Katherina’); and three settings of the same ‘Inclyta Sanctae Virginis Catherinae’ text all convey the prayer to share joy in the Saint’s glory. The longest piece here is Fawkyner’s 15-minute Gaude Rose Sine Spina, a Marian antiphon from the Eton Choirbook whose text is adapted to honor Catharine.

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To further explore music devoted to St Catharine (duplicating almost nothing in this program, and containing the complete Mass by Walter Frye—only the Kyrie is here), note that John Barker had high praise for the Binchois Consort (Hyperion 68274, S/O 2019: 193).

 

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