Out of Darkness: Music from Lent to Trinity

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Out of Darkness: Music from Lent to Trinity
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams

[ Signum Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 9 February 2015

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The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge ('superlative singing' - The Northern Echo) present this album of sacred works which follows events in the Church calendar. From Ash Wednesday, through to the final feast of the year - Trinity, the recording features works by Bryd, Purcell, Casals, Elgar, Stanford, Britten, Tallis and James MacMillan, all directed by Mark Williams.

"The programme has been discerningly chosen and the standard of performance is set down at once with an excellent account of Byrd's Cunctis diebus. Here the College Choir achieves a good internal balance, sustains the polyphonic lines intelligently and sings the penitential text with no little feeling. The other Lenten piece, the Purcell, is entrusted to the Combined Choir and comes off well. This is a fine recital, which has been planned discerningly and performed with great skill and commitment. The recording, produced by Chris Hazell and engineered by Mike Hatch, is very good, not least in balancing the singers against the organ in a very satisfactory way." (MusicWeb April 2015)

"The programme strays well off the ecclesiastical beaten track...The darkness-to-light format is familiar enough, but the sequence has been carefully thought through here and embraces sufficient variety of styles and texture - some with organ accompaniment, some without - to sustain the disc's 75 minutes." The Telegraph, 22nd February 2015 ***

Tracks:

Bairstow: The Lamentation
Britten: Festival Te Deum in E, Op. 32
Byrd: Cunctis diebus
Casals: O vos omnes
Elgar: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (from The Apostles)
Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
Ives, G: Listen sweet dove
Laloux: Tantum ergo
Langlais: Incantation pour un Jour Saint
Lhéritier: Surrexit pastor bonus
MacMillan: The Strathclyde Motets: Sedebit Dominus Rex
Purcell: Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50
Rorem: Breathe on me, breath of God
Sheppard, J: Libera Nos
Stainer: I saw the Lord
Stanford: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem, Op. 123
Tallis: If ye love me