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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
Hyperion is delighted to present this latest CD from The Choir of Westminster Abbey under their inspirational director, James O’Donnell. They continue their exploration of the rich repertoire of the liturgy in its historical context in the Abbey with music for the Feast of the Ascension. Ascension Day is a particular moment of celebration within the annual round of Easter praise and is celebrated in glorious and triumphal language. The works recorded here represent a wide range of the best of liturgical music, starting from the intricate and joyful writing of the sixteenth-century composer Peter Philips and ending with fascinating and appealing pieces by living composers. Along the way are works from the great flowering of English cathedral music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “After seven years at the helm, James O'Donnell has made a formidable singing outfit of the Westminster Abbey Choir...The treble line is robust and thrilling, its soloist, Jacob Ewens, a sinuous star in Britten's Te Deum in E. The ensemble is well balanced in the polyphony of Philips's Ascendit Deus and confidently tuned in the awe-filled modernism of Gowers's Viri Galilei, while the organist, Robert Quinney, does more than his share in the dazzling accompaniments.” The Times, 26th April 2008 **** “The choir of Westminster Abbey under James O'Donnell sing with the happy care which his choristers at the Cathedral used to bring to their work with him. If the echo calls attention to itself at the start, the ears soon adjust. They are not going to complain with so much to enjoy.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2008 “The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is able to produce it convincingly as these chaps...this is Westminster Abbey Choir at their crystalline best, with spot-on pitching, enviable articulation and sympathetic phrasing.” Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 18th April 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Es singt und klingt mit Schalle
Archer, M: | Away in a manger | Bach, J S: | Cantata BWV65 'Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen': Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem Chorale Prelude BWV659 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' Cantata BWV36 'Schwingt freudig euch empor': Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland | Cruger: | Wie soll ich dich empfangen Fröhlich soll mein Herze springen | Gabrieli, G: | Canzona No. 1 Canzona No. 2 Canzon I 'La Spiritata' | Gesius: | Hosianna, dem Sohne Davids | Guilmant: | Tochter Zion, freue dich | Holst: | In the Bleak Mid-winter (Cranham) | Kaiser, U: | Hört, es singt und klingt mit Schalle | Karg-Elert: | Chorale-Improvisation - 'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ' | Poppen: | Es kommt ein Schiff | Praetorius, M: | Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen | Reichenau: | Salve Regina | Rheinberger: | Ex Sion | Saint-Saëns: | Oratorio de Noël (Christmas Oratorio), Op. 12: Tollite Hostias | Sandstrøm, J: | Es ist ein Ros entsprungen | Schütz: | Also hat Gott, SWV 380 Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36 |
Moritz Schott (organ) Hamburg Boys Choir, Elbeblech Brass Quintet, Ulrich Kaiser | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Dresden Kreuzchor - Sacred Music
Bach, J S: | Mass in B minor, BWV232: Kyrie eleison Christmas Oratorio, BWV248: Jauchzet frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage Mass in G minor, BWV235 | Brahms: | Warum ist das Licht gegeben? Op. 74 No. 1 | Bruckner: | Locus iste, WAB 23 Ave Maria (1861), WAB 6 | Mauersberger, R: | Wie liegt die Stadt so wüst | Schütz: | Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36 Ein Kind Ist Uns Geboren, SWV 302 |
The tradition of the Dresden Kreuzkirche choir stretches back seven centuries. The church’s four most recent directors of music are united in this collection, in which great sacred choral music illustrated the development of the boys’ choir from the beginning of the stereo era to the present day. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Margareta Enevold (soprano), Kristian Buhl-Mortensen (lute), Lone Ekstrand (gamba) Camerata Chamber Choir, Stockholm Motet Choir, Per Enevold, Dan-Olof Stenlund | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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“The choir are in very good form, bright, perfectly tuned...the soloists all good... Michael McCarthy as Herod is magnificent.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Die Himmel erzählen die ehre Gottes
Bach, J S: | Zion hört die Wächter singen (arr. F. Kircheis) Cantata BWV75 'Die Elenden sollen essen': Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan (arr. for corno da caccia and organ) Cantata BWV147 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben': Jesu, bleibet meine Freude (arr. for corno da caccia and organ) | Gabrieli, G: | Sonate e Canzoni Canzon Quarta | Hessen-Kassel: | Canzona | Krebs, J L: | O Gott, Du Frommer Gott | Praetorius, M: | In dich hab ich gehoffet, Herr (arr. for brass ensemble) | Reger: | Nun danket alle Gott, Op. 67, No. 28 Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Op. 67, No. 10 (arr. for trumpet and organ) Jerusalem, du hochgebaute Stadt, Op. 67, No. 18 (arr. for trumpet and organ) | Scheidt: | Canzona | Schütz: | Psalms of David, SWV 22-47 (Op. 2) (arr. for brass ensemble) Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36 (arr. for brass ensemble) Was mein Gott will, SWV392 (arr. for brass ensemble) Vasto mar, nel cui seno, SWV 19 (arr. for brass ensemble) Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386 (arr. for brass ensemble) | Telemann: | Concerto TWV 53:D2 in D major for trumpet, 2 oboes, strings & b.c. (arr. for trumpet and organ) |
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| |  | Jauchzet den HerrenChoral and Organ Music of 500 Years
Bach, J S: | Fantasia in C (unfinished) BWV573 Psallite Deo nostro | Croce: | Cantate Domino | Gardonyi: | Gott, unser Schopfer | Gounod: | Mass in C major, 'Messe breve No. 7 aux chapelles' | Hassler, H L: | Verbum caro factum est | Haydn: | Danklied | Homilius: | Deo dicamus gratias | Kittel, J C: | Praeludium G major | Langlais: | Trois Paraphrases Grégoriennes, Op. 5 - Hymne d'action de grace Te Deum | Mendelssohn: | Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt, Op. 69 No. 2 | Rheinberger: | Preis und Anbetung sei unserm Gott | Scarlatti, A: | Exultate Deo adjutori | Schütz: | Psalm 100: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36 |
Christoph Grohmann (organ) Christophorus-Jugendkammerchor Versmold, Hans-Ulrich Henning | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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