Plainsong: The Echo of Angels

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Release Date: 27th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: CR-025
Label: Convivium
Length: 58 minutes

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anon.: The Advent Prose (Arr. S. Cleobury)

Work length4:59

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Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28

Work length1:43

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Anna Wynne
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

No. 1, Hodie Christus Natus Est

Track length1:43

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anon.: Verbum Infans

Work length2:30

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Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Echo Carol

Work length3:53

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Oliver Hancock, William Wallace
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Psalm 85

Work length3:45

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William Pepperell, Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Missa de Angelis (Arr. A. Lucas)

Work length10:23

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William Pepperell, Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

I. Kyrie

Track length3:17

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II. Gloria in Excelsis

Track length3:14

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III. Sanctus & Benedictus

Track length2:08

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IV. Agnus Dei

Track length1:44

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anon.: Psalm 42

Work length5:09

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Peter Norris, Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Lent Prose (Arr. J. Scott)

Work length4:22

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Alexander Pratley, Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Veni, creator spiritus

Work length3:18

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Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Missa Deus Genitor Alme

Work length3:49

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William Pepperell, Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

I. Kyrie

Track length1:23

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II. Sanctus & Benedictus

Track length1:05

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III. Agnus Dei

Track length1:21

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anon.: Benedictus (Arr. D. Price)

Work length3:57

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William Pepperell, Oliver Hancock
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

anon.: Adoro te devote

Work length6:47

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Edmund Saddington, William Wallace
Portsmouth Cathedral Choir
David Price

Wills, A: Organ Meditation on "Adoro Te Devote"

Work length3:48

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David Price

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‘He who sings, prays twice’ so said St Augustine of Hippo. The music of Gregorian Chant, or plainsong is the Church's most ancient form of chanted prayer, and perhaps its most haunting and beautiful. It can transport, delight and transform. This recording is a snapshot of how we use plainsong at Portsmouth Cathedral, from the simplest of psalms as sung at weekday Evensong, or a great hymn marking a major Feast Day such as Veni Creator for Pentecost, or through its use in simple choir motets as set here by the Cathedral’s Director of Music, David Price. Portsmouth Cathedral Choir is made up of 22 boy choristers and 12 gentlemen (including 6 Choral Scholars) who contribute to the pattern of daily cathedral worship. The choristers rehearse on weekday mornings at 8.00am before a normal school day in preparation for the week's music. In any normal week the Cathedral Choir sings for at least 6 services.

The Choir also sings at various special services and events both locally and internationally, and has toured Belgium, Holland, Sweden, France and more recently Estonia and Germany. At home in the UK they have also sung at St Paul's Cathedral, the Queen's private chapel at St George's in Windsor Castle and, most recently, at Westminster Abbey. The Choir was involved in the 70th Anniversary of D-Day in including two BBC Radio broadcasts and an International Drumhead Ceremony. The Cathedral Choir maintains strong links with the Royal Navy and takes part in a number of services for them such as the annual Royal Marines Band Remembrance Service and the Second Sea Lord’s carol service on HMS Victory.

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