Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral

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Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker / with Matthew Martin (organ)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 26 October 2006

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"Here Westminster Cathedral Choir and Martin Baker give us a rich evocation of the complete service of Vespers at the Cathedral as it is currently sung. If you close your eyes you can almost smell the incense."
(MusicWeb Nov 2006)

This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.

The chant on this disc is the golden thread which runs throughout the entire liturgy giving the Office a natural rhythm and inevitability as well as clarity of text and beautiful language; it is complemented here by motets and canticles by Thomas Tallis, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Heinrich Schütz, while Jean Langlais's massive Fête for organ concludes the service.

The only cathedral choir in the world to sing Mass and Vespers liturgically every day, The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is perfectly placed to offer to the armchair listener this CD encapsulation of their very lifeblood, recorded here in the opulent acoustic of their own cathedral

Recorded in Westminster Cathedral, London, on 21, 22, 28 February and 1 March 2005

Tracks:

INTROIT Gaude et laetare SWEELINCK [3'01]
INTRODUCTION TO THE OFFICE Deus in adiutorium [1'00]
PSALM ANTIPHON Rex pacificus [0'25]
PSALM Dixit Dominus [2'09]
ANTIPHON REPEAT [0'24]
ORGAN IMPROVISATION [1'00]
PSALM ANTIPHON Magnificatus est [0'21]
PSALM Confitebor tibi [3'09]
ANTIPHON REPEAT [0'21]
ORGAN IMPROVISATION [0'54]
PSALM ANTIPHON Completi sunt [0'19]
PSALM Beatus vir [2'42]
ANTIPHON REPEAT [0'21]
ORGAN IMPROVISATION [0'55]
PSALM ANTIPHON Scitote [0'23]
PSALM Laudate pueri [2'47]
ANTIPHON REPEAT [0'24]
ORGAN IMPROVISATION [1'09]
PSALM ANTIPHON Levate [0'22]
PSALM Laudate Dominum [1'13]
ANTIPHON REPEAT [0'19]
ORGAN IMPROVISATION [1'27]
CHAPTER Apparuit benignitas [0'33]
Responsorium breve [1'39]
HYMN Christe redemptor omnium [4'06]
VERSICLE Crastina die [0'38]
MAGNIFICAT ANTIPHON Cum ortus fuerit [0'39]
Magnificat à 5 TALLIS [9'53]
ANTIPHON REPEAT [0'41]
Tonus Orationis [1'54]
Benedicamus Domino [1'11]
MOTET Alma redemptoris mater à 5 VICTORIA [7'35]
Post partum [0'49]
Elogium [2'35]
MOTET Hodie Christus natus est SCHÜTZ [5'38]
VOLUNTARY Fête LANGLAIS [5'06]