Ave MariaAuthor(s): Cecilia McDowall Format: Sheet music Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780193355569, 978-0193355569 Synopsis for SSA unaccompanied This is the second and most intimate of the composer's 'Three Latin Motets'. Scored for upper voices, this gentle supplication to the Virgin is built on a plainchant opening, and contains expressive dissonances and suspensions in a setting of great purity and directness. Ave Maria has been recorded by the renowned American choir, the Phoenix Chorale, and released on a Grammy award-winning CD by Chandos (Spotless Rose CHSA 5066) .