I Sing of a Maiden

Christopher Maxim’s approach to I sing of a maiden has the same sort of sensitivity to the words as found in Patrick Hadley’s much-loved setting – restrained, beautiful and attractively understated. Even the ‘Mother and maiden’ climax is marked ‘ma dolce’.
James L. Montgomery (Church Music Quarterly)

I sing of a Maiden [is] an easy carol for which the composer offers options for performance a semitone or tone higher in pitch. The opening direction of soave says it all. Maxim has thought very carefully about the text and (practical again) shows very clearly where he wants the tenors to differ in word-stress from the rest of the choir. […] here’s a good teaching moment for all amateur choral tenors.
Rebecca Tavener (Organists’ Review)