The Feast of St Edward, King and Confessor, at Westminster Abbey

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An admirably varied programme, with excellent Hyperion recording. — BBC Music Magazine, October 2006, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 1st Sep 2006
Catalogue No: CDA67586
Label: Hyperion
Length: 75 minutes

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anon.: Laudes Regiae

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Leigh Nixon (tenor)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Smith, W: The Preces

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Julian Stocker (tenor)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Crotch: Psalm 132

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Stanford: Morning, Evening and Communion Services in C Op. 115

Work length13:38

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Morning Canticle 1. Te Deum

Track length8:03

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Morning Canticle 2. Benedictus

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William Smith; Robert Stone: The Responses

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Julian Stocker (tenor)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Purcell: O God, thou art my god, Z35

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Harvey, J: Missa Brevis

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Francis Brett (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

I. Kyrie

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II. Gloria

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III. Sanctus & Benedictus

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IV. Agnus Dei

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Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur sapientiam

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Morley, W: Psalm 99

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Purcell: Magnificat & Nunc Dimitus in G minor, Z231

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

I. Magnificat

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II. Nunc dimittis

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Moore, P: The King and the Robin

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Julian Empett (bass), Benjamin Gerrans (treble), Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Demessieux: Te Deum, Op. 11

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Robert Quinney (organ)

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This new recording from Westminster Abbey presents Matins, Eucharist and Evensong as they might be heard on the Feast of St Edward (13 October). The Saint, whose death in 1066 sparked the Norman Conquest, remains buried in the Abbey to this day and his shrine is a point of global pilgrimage. The Service of Matins is centred around the Morning Canticles from Stanfords epic Service in C, Op 115, while Evensong takes is cue from Purcells masterful Evening Service in G minor, Z231. The Evensong anthem is the first recording of The King and the Robin, composed for the millennial celebrations of St Edwards birth in 1005 with music by Philip Moore and words by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion. The Eucharist setting is Jonathan Harveys adventurous Missa brevis, composed for the Abbey in 1995 and here receiving its first recording. This striking, but assuredly liturgical, work combines shouted text and chaotic choral passages into a whole of unusual impact. This is Hyperions third recording of The Choir of Westminster Abbey. William Byrds Great Service (CDA67533) was described by Gramophone as a very polished and confident performance, while Fanfare in America greeted Trinity Sunday at Westminster Abbey (CDA67557) thus: Im so taken by this program that I frankly rebel at the notion of spending one sentence, much less a paragraph, on the topic of alternative recordings so enough already. Im about to sound like a baseball announcer calling attention to a no-hitter-in-the-making during the seventh-inning stretch, but writing just after the Feast of St Philip of Punxsutawney, Id say this release stands quite a good chance of turning up on my 2006 Want List. Thankfully, dear reader, you neednt wait nearly so long to decide that it belongs on yours. And here we offer more of the same immaculate performances from this A-list Church of England choir.

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October 2006

An admirably varied programme, with excellent Hyperion recording.

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