[ Chandos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 February 2013
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The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge has selected some of the best-known choral works of Samuel Sebastian Wesley for inclusion on this disc, interspersing them with one of his organ works as well as a psalm chant by his father, Samuel Wesley.
"an attractive programme, sung with expertise and devotion" BBC Music Magazine, April 2013 ****
"One of the best [canticle-settings] is Wesley in E...Nethsinga directs splendidly, the performance as broad and grand as one could wish...this is a disc to uplift the spirits." Gramophone Magazine, April 2013
Wesley, S:
Psalm 42
Psalm 43
Wesley, S S:
Ascribe unto the Lord
Wash me throughly from my wickedness
O give thanks unto the Lord
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Evening Service (Magnificat & Nunc dimittis) in E
Larghetto
The Wilderness
O Thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Blessed be the God and Father