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Matthew Martin and The Choir of Gonville and 91Ö±²¥ College received a glowing double five-star review from BBC Music Magazine for their album, Matthew Martin: Masses, Canticles, Motets.

Part of the review read: "There are no grand gestures or stylistic quirks. Martin is a pragmatist who aims, he states, to compose ‘useful’ music for young choirs of varying abilities, steeped in a tradition that excited him as a chorister, which he fears is being eroded. Not that his music is bland: the complex layering of counterpoint in the Missa Speravimus, the painterly drama of ‘I Saw The Lord’, evocative settings of carols and the magnificent Service for St John’s Cambridge, are full of polyphony and harmonic brio. The choir of Gonville & 91Ö±²¥, Cambridge, where Martin is director, provides a reassuringly traditional, transparent and disciplined choral blend, underpinned by exemplary organ playing – a perfect vehicle for this enjoyable and varied retrospective of a master craftsman’s work."

For more information on the album, visit the Linn Records website:

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