Stainer: The Crucifixion

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Stainer's Crucifixion unfolds with a seamless ease, never jolting the listener with gratuitous theatricality or the type of rhetorical intensity which the English find mildly embarrassing.
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Release Date: 1st Mar 1997
Catalogue No: CHAN9551
Label: Chandos
Length: 70 minutes

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Stainer: The Crucifixion

Work length1:10:38

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Brian Kay, Martyn Hill, Michael George, Margaret Philips, BBC Singers, Leith Hill Festival Singers

Recitative. And they came to a place named Gethsemane (Tenor)

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The Agony. Could ye not watch with Me one brief hour? (Bass, Chorus) - Recitative. And they laid their hands on Him (Tenor, Bass)

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Processional to Calvary. Fling wide the Gates! For the Saviour waits (Tenor, Chorus)

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Recitative. And when they were come (Bass)

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Hymn. The Mystery of the divine Humiliation

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Recitative. He made Himself of no reputation (Bass)

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The Majesty of the Divine Humiliation (Tenor)

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Recitative. And as Moses lifted up the serpent (Bass)

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Chorus. God so loved the world

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Hymn. Litany of the Passion

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Recitative. Jesus said, Father, forgive them (Tenor, Chorus)

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Duet. So Thou liftest Thy divine petition (Tenor, Bass)

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Hymn. The Mystery of Intercession

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Recitative. And one of the malefactors (Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

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Hymn. The Adoration of the Crucified

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Recitative. When Jesus therefore saw His Mother (Tenor, Bass, Chorus)

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Recitative. Is it nothing to you? (Bass)

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Chorus. The Appeal of the Crucified

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Recitative. After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished (Tenor, Chorus)

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Hymn. For the Love of Jesus

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Stainer's Crucifixion unfolds with a seamless ease, never jolting the listener with gratuitous theatricality or the type of rhetorical intensity which the English find mildly embarrassing.
The emotional engagement here is about an unintrusive sobriety, affected by a glowing sentimental identification with the Saviour's plight.
One has to admire Stainer for writing a challenging work of sensible length which, without an orchestra, is achievable and satisfying for a capable parish choir: Stainer's Crucifixion is a celebration of amateurism, that cherished English virtue. Brian Kay has worked a great deal with committed amateurs, in this case the Leith Hill Festival Singers, the festival of which he's director. There's an underlying freshness of expression here, of singers with eyes and ears on stalks and a real sense of purpose. They are fortified by the excellent BBC Singers. Margaret Phillips's imaginative, genial registrations, not to mention her skilful accompaniment, provide notable support to the fine contributions of the solosits. An unselfregarding and genuine performance.

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