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Christopher Robinson and his St John's College Choir prove especially eloquent, humane advocates of the eight-part Missa Cantuariensis. We've long needed a top-notch digital recording of this,... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 8555255
Label: Naxos
Series: English Choral Music
Length: 69 minutes

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Rubbra: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A flat major, Op. 65

Work length6:19

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Robert Houssart (organ), Edward Lyon (tenor)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, UK

I. Magnificat

Track length4:19

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II. Nunc dimittis

Track length2:00

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Rubbra: Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici, Op. 66

Work length15:00

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$7.80

Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, UK

Kyrie

Track length1:42

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Gloria

Track length3:38

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Credo

Track length5:25

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Sanctus

Track length1:08

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Benedictus

Track length1:19

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Agnus Dei

Track length1:48

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Rubbra: Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, Op. 69 (arr. for organ)

Work length4:53

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Robert Houssart (organ)
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. Johns College, Cambridge, UK

Prelude and Fugue on a Theme of Cyril Scott, Op. 69 (organ arr.)

Track length4:53

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Rubbra: Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72: First Nocturn

Work length8:49

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Thomas Williams (alto), Jonathan Bungard (tenor), Laurence Keegan-Fischer (treble)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. Johns College, Cambridge, UK

I. In monte Oliveti

Track length2:11

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II. Tristis est anima mea

Track length2:56

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III. Ecce vidimus eum

Track length3:42

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Rubbra: Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72: Second Nocturn

Work length7:02

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, UK

I. Amicus meus

Track length2:34

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II. Judas mercator pessimus

Track length2:03

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III. Unus ex discipulis

Track length2:25

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Rubbra: Tenebrae Motets, Op. 72: First, Second & Third Nocturns

Work length7:22

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Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge, UK

I. Eram quasi agnus innocens

Track length2:52

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II. Una hora non potuistis

Track length2:02

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III. Seniores populi

Track length2:28

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Rubbra: Meditation for Organ, Op. 79

Work length3:06

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Robert Houssart (organ)
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: St. John's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK

Rubbra: Missa Cantuariensis, Op. 59

Work length16:49

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$7.80

Jonathan Bungard (tenor)
Choir of St John's College Cambridge
Christopher Robinson
Recorded: 24-26 March 2000
Recording Venue: Chapel of St. Johns College, Cambridge, UK

Kyrie

Track length3:11

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Credo

Track length5:27

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Sanctus

Track length1:19

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Benedictus

Track length1:30

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Agnus Dei

Track length2:27

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Gloria in excelsis

Track length2:55

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2010

Christopher Robinson and his St John's College Choir prove especially eloquent, humane advocates of the eight-part Missa Cantuariensis. We've long needed a top-notch digital recording of this, the first of Rubbra's five Mass settings. Robinson and company rise to the challenge admirably, not least in the exuberant concluding Gloria with its lung-burstingly high tessitura. We also get a thoroughly idiomatic rendering of the taut and imposing Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A flat that Rubbra wrote two years later.
In the glorious Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici from 1949 (inspired by Rubbra's own conversion to Roman Catholicism the previous year, on the feast day of St Dominic) our Cambridge group doesn't quite match the sumptuous blend, miraculous unanimity or spine-tingling fervour displayed by James O'Donnell's Westminster Cathedral Choir (to quote the composer: '…this is not austere music…red blood runs through its veins!'). On the other hand, these newcomers sound wholly captivated by the nine motets that make up the remarkable Op-72 Tenebrae. Boasting an infinitely subtle harmonic and contrapuntal resource, these timeless, wonderfully compassionate settings of the responsories used during Matins on Maundy Thursday show Rubbra very much at the height of his powers, encompassing an extraordinarily wide dramatic and expressive range. Robinson also gives us two instrumental bonuses in the rapt Meditation for organ, Op 79, and Bernard Rose's transcription of the more substantial Prelude and Fugue on aTheme of Cyril Scott (originally written for piano in 1950 to celebrate Scott's 70th birthday).
Throw in Naxos's praiseworthy production, and you've a bargain of the first order.

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