Part of the first release in Regent’s new York Minster edition.
2010 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s finest composers of church music, Samuel Sebastian Wesley.
A beautiful collection of nineteenth-century anthems placing Wesley in context with some of his English contemporaries and Mendelssohn – the German composer much-loved by English audiences in the midnineteenth century.
In addition to glorious and memorable melody, a feature of many of the works on this disc is the extensive use of the boy treble voice in radiant and expressive solos.
Sung by the brilliant men and boys of York Minster Choir under the direction of Robert Sharpe.
