Timothy Raymond
Ave Regina Caelorum
Wind orchestra
Timothy Raymond
The opening movement begins high up with stylised birdsong and moves down through the registers, through Frye’s Motet, to the depths of a tuba solo. The second movement is a slow processional which revolves around a series of chords and leads, without a break, through a tutti passage in octaves to the third, which opens with a trumpet solo and moving through several fast sometimes, contrapuntal episodes to a triumphal arrival of a quotation from a Mass by Jacob Obrecht.
. . . a colourful riot of energy
. . . an intensely original voiceWinds, September 2004 (vol 19 no 2)
