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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | O praise the LordRestoration Music from Westminster Abbey
Blow: | Voluntary in A major Robert Quinney (organ) God is our hope and strength Venite Voluntary in D Minor Robert Quinney (organ) Voluntary in D Minor Robert Quinney (organ) Salvator Mundi | Child, W: | O praise the Lord | Purcell: | Service in B flat major, Z230 O Lord God of hosts, Z37 Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135 Julian Stocker (tenor) & Robert Macdonald (bass) Voluntary in D minor, Z718 Robert Quinney (organ) Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 Voluntary in C major, Z717 Robert Quinney (organ) Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?, Z25 Voluntary in G major, Z720 Robert Quinney (organ) | Turner, W: | Psalm 113 'Praise the Lord, ye servants' Psalm 54 'Save me, O God, for thy Name's sake' |
The Choir of Westminster Abbey under their inspirational director James O’Donnell delve into the Abbey’s vaults for this latest fascinating disc. The triumphant mood of the Restoration required much glorious liturgical music, and the Abbey was home to some of the greatest composers and performers of the age. This recording presents music likely to have been sung by—and in some cases, almost certain to have been written for—the Choir of Westminster Abbey during the late 1670s and early 1680s. They sing four canticles from the compendious Service in B flat by Henry Purcell, together with psalmody in reconstructed contemporary style, and anthems and motets by Purcell and his contemporary John Blow, who famously both preceded and succeeded Purcell as Organist of the Abbey. “Throughout every work O'Donnell's direction is alive to the sophisticated vocal layering, and ever attentive to the meaning of the words - an innate musicality echoed in Robert Quinney's 'voluntary contributions', despatched with nimble virtuosity and a beguiling shapeliness.” BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 **** “Overall, it's a surprisingly varied programme...The organ voluntaries add spice to the mix, bearing as some of them do the stamp of Italianate influence.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2010 “Clear and uncluttered sound, the antiphonal effects nicely caught in a faultless Hyperion recording” International Record Review “The Abbey choir, under James O’Donnell, conveys the thrill of Purcell’s music and the whole disc is marked by crucial attention to the articulation of words and to the careful balancing of choral sonorities.” The Telegraph, 9th April 2010 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Purcell - Divine Hymns
Blow: | Peaceful is he and most secure Salvator Mundi | Croft: | What art thou | Humfrey: | Lord I have sinned A Hymne to God the Father | Purcell: | Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135 Lord, what is man?, Z192 Hosanna to the highest, Z187 Tell me, some pitying angel (The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation), Z196 Since God, so tender a regard, Z143 In the midst of life, Z 17a O, all ye people, clap your hands, Z138 In guilty night (Saul and the Witch of Endor), Z134 The night is come, ZD77 Close thine eyes and sleep secure, Z184 An Evening Hymn 'Now that the sun hath veiled his light', Z193 |
“Christie and his performers bring the perfect balance of intimacy and intensity to this repertoire. Paul Agnew conveys the essence of these songs with poetic expressivity… while the treble-like soprano of Hannah Morrison is the perfect instrument for Purcell's sublime Evening Hymn, which she sings with artless naivety. Divine, indeed.” BBC Music Magazine, September 2007 ***** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Taverner to TavenerFive Centuries of Music at Christ Church, Oxford
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| |  | A Year at York
David Pipe (organ) The Choir of York Minster, Robert Sharpe (director) The first in a new series from Regent charting a musical journey through the church’s year at well-loved cathedrals. This journey in music through a year at York Minster features a number of works written for the Choir of York Minster. Several First recordings. Featuring either the boy or the girl choristers, together with the Songmen. Includes Charles Stanford’s Magnficat in G sung by Isabel Suckling (The Choirgirl). “the men have a rich tone, almost operatic at times. This can occasionally overshadow York's chorister, whose sound has an attractive fragility....An auspicious start to what should prove a major collection of choral recording.” Gramophone Magazine, May 2012 “York offers a particularly rich crop of new and relatively recent music...Naylor's Vox dicentis...[is] given with confidence, firm tuning, clear diction and phrasing and even a little drama, the excellent of the performances masking just how difficult it can be to make this sort of music work well.” International Record Review, March 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Into Thy HandsThe Music Of Grosvenor Chapel
Joseph Sentance (organ) The Choir of the Grosvenor Chapel, Richard Hobson (director) The Grosvenor Chapel is a wonderful jewel of an early eighteenth-century building in Mayfair in central London. Its unique and original design influenced the architecture of many churches built in the US. From its opening in 1731 the Grosvenor Chapel has enjoyed professional choral music of an enviable standard and this recording features a selection of choral music drawn from the wide range of repertoire sung by the renowned Grosvenor Chapel Choir in the Sunday morning service each week. Over four hundred years of English music is represented, with works from Thomas Tallis to contemporary British composer, Jonathan Dove, together with an orchestral Mass by Mozart, and features the first recording of ‘Come, Thou Holy Paraclete’ by Francis Jackson, written for the Grosvenor Chapel Choir. | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Great Cathedral Anthems Vol. 2
Blow: | Salvator Mundi | Boyce: | O where shall wisdom be found? | Finzi: | God is gone up, Op. 27 No. 2 | Gardiner, H B: | Evening Hymn (Te lucis ante terminum) | Harris, W: | Bring us, O Lord God | Harvey, J: | The Tree | Haydn: | Insanae et vanae curae | Naylor, E W: | Vox dicentis: Clama | Purcell: | Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 | Stanford: | For lo, I raise up, Op. 145 | Tavener: | Hymn to the Mother of God | Walton: | Jubilate Deo | Wood, C: | Great Lord of lords |
Neil Taylor (organ) The Choir of Norwich Cathedral, Michael Nicholas | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Salvator MundiMusic for Lent & Passiontide
Blow: | Salvator Mundi | Davy, J: | Drop, drop, slow tears | Grier, F: | O King of the Friday | Howells: | Salvator mundi I heard a voice from Heaven | Pantcheff: | For, lo, the days come | Poulenc: | Vinea mea electa (My Chosen Vine) from Four Motets for a Time of Penitence | Purcell: | Who hath believed our report?, Z64 Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 | Tallis: | Salvator mundi Suscipe quaeso Domine In ieiunio et fletu | Victoria: | Missa O quam gloriosum: Agnus Dei |
James Davy (organ) The Arcadian Singers of Oxford University, Matthew O'Donovan | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | An Edinburgh Celebration
Peter Backhouse (organ) The Choir of St Giles' Cathedral, Michael Harris | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | The Treasury of English Church Music1100-1965
anon.: | Sancte Dei pretiose Perspice Christicola Salve sancta parens Sanctus and Benedictus Alleluya psallat Ave miles caelestis curiae Conditor alme siderum - Hymn for Advent Vespers | Bairstow: | Let all mortal flesh keep silence | Battishill: | O Lord, look down from heaven | Blow: | Salvator Mundi God is our hope and strength | Boyce: | The Heavens Declare | Britten: | A Hymn to the Virgin | Byrd: | Ave verum Corpus Sing joyfully Victimae paschali | Child, W: | O God, wherefore art thou absent from us? | Cornysh the elder: | Ave Maria Mater Dei | Crotch: | Lo! Star-Led Chiefs | Damett: | Beata Dei genetrix Maria | Davies, Maxwell: | Ave Maria - Hail blessed flower | Davies, Walford: | Blessed are the pure in heart Jubilate in G major | Dering: | Factum est silentium | Dunstaple: | Veni Sancte Spiritus | Elgar: | O hearken Thou, Op. 64 Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), Op. 74 | Excetre: | Sanctus & Benedictus | Farrant, R: | Hide not thou thy face | Frye, W: | Salve virgo mater pya | Gibbons, O: | Nunc dimittis (Short Service) O clap your hands This is the Record of John | Goss, J: | If we believe that Jesus died | Greene, M: | O Clap Your Hands Together | Holst: | Turn back, O man | Howells: | Magnificat (Collegium Regale, 1945) A Spotless Rose Sing Lullaby Here is the Little Door | Humfrey: | O Lord my God | Ireland: | Greater Love Hath No Man | Joubert: | There Is No Rose | Leighton: | Give me the wings of faith | Marbecke: | Nunc dimittis | Morley: | Nolo mortem peccatoris Out of the Deep (version for countertenor soloist) Out of the Deep (version for tenor soloist) | Mundy, W: | Ah, helpless wretch | Nares: | The souls of the righteous | Noble: | Nunc Dimittis in B minor | Ouseley: | O Saviour of the world | Parsons, R: | Nunc dimittis from the First Great Service | Philips, P: | Ascendit Deus | Purcell: | Thou know'st, Lord, Z 58c I will give thanks unto the Lord, Z21 Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 O Lord God of hosts, Z37 Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 | Queldryk: | Gloria | Rootham: | Evening Service in E minor | Shaw, M: | Anglican Folk Mass: Creed | Stanford: | Te deum in B flat Beati quorum via, Op. 38 No. 3 | Sterndale Bennett: | God is a Spirit | Tallis: | Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? | Thalben-Ball: | Evening Service in C major | Tomkins: | Nunc Dimitis My beloved spake | Travers, J: | Ascribe unto the Lord | Vaughan Williams: | O Taste and See Te Deum in G | Walmisley: | Evening Service in D minor | Walton: | Set me as a seal upon thine heart | Warlock: | I saw a fair maiden | Weelkes: | Gloria in excelsis Deo All people clap your hands O how amiable are thy dwellings Lord, to Thee I make my moan, anthem for 5 voices Alleluia, I heard a voice | Wesley, S S: | Cast me not away Wash me throughly from my wickedness | White, Robert: | Christe qui lux es et dies | Wood, C: | Short Communion Service in the Phrygian Mode: Sanctus & Benedictus |
Ambrosian Singers, Westminster Abbey Choir, Chichester Cathedral Choir, Guildford Cathedral Choir, St Pauls Cathedral Choir, Temple Church Choir, Denis Stevens, Douglas Guest, John Birch, Barry Rose, John Dykes Bower, George Thalben-Ball Here for the first time on CD are the celebrated five LPs of the HMV Treasury of English Church Music. Prefaced by the introductory speech Herbert Howells gave at the launch, and boasting more than 30 bonus tracks, this set offers a uniquely authoritative and comprehensive conspectus of the broad repertory of cathedral, collegiate and parish church choirs in the 1960s. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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