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Celebrating its tenth anniversary with its tenth recording on Delphian, The Marian Consort plays to its twin strengths in a lovingly conceived programme coupling two pillars of Renaissance polyphony with twenty-first century settings of the same texts, including a newly commissioned Stabat Mater by Gabriel Jackson. A range of subplots Palestrina s influence on Wagner, Charles Burney s collecting of Allegri and Palestrina make this truly a story of interconnections: a path on which the present s footsteps constantly overlay the past s. At the centre is Allegri s Miserere, whose convoluted reception history itself becomes part of the story and whose performance here fully exploits the world-famous acoustic of Merton College s chapel. Praise for the Marian Consort on Delphian has been widespread: A performance of shimmering intensity. (Gramophone)