[ Erato / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Saturday 20 February 2010
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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.
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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, Peter 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, T:
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