From English Chapels and Cathedrals #1252
…glorious sounds resound in historic buildings, testament to the richness of a centuries-old musical art.
Hour 1
ARTHUR WILLS: Carillon on Orientis Partibus –David Briggs (1892 Willis/Hereford Cathedral) Priory 247
WILLIAM MATHIAS: Wassail Carol. RICHARD LLOYD: God from on high. FELIX MENDELSSOHN: Frohlocket, ihr Völker, Op.79, no. 1. JOHN RUTTER: Sing we to this merry company –Hereford Cathedral Choir/Geraint Bowen, director/Peter Dyke (1892 Willis/Hereford Cathedral) Regent 388
KENNETH LEIGHTON: O leave your sheep –Elizabethan Singers/Louis Halsey, director; Simon Preston (1892 Walker/Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London) Boston Skyline 124
ROBIN MILFORD: Chorale Prelude on St. Columba –Malcolm Archer (1994 Mander/Winchester College Chapel) Regent 289
EDWARD ELGAR: Loughborough Memorial Chime –John Butt (1934 Harrison/King's College Chapel, Cambridge) Harmonia Mundi 907281
STEPHEN PAULUS: Pilgrim Jesus. JUDITH WEIR: Illuminare, Jerusalem. JUDITH BINGHAM: God would be born in thee –Choir of King's College/Stephen Cleobury, director; Tom Winpenny (1934 Harrison/King's College Chapel, Cambridge) EMI Classics 58070
PIERRE COCHEREAU: Variations on Adeste fidelis (1970) –Jeremy Filsell (1967 Walker/Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral) ASV 1104
Hour 2
PERCY WHITLOCK: Exultemus, fr 7 Sketches on Psalm Verses –Christopher Dearnley (1997 Willis-Mander/St. Paul's Cathedral, London) Priory 6006
HOWARD BLAKE: Walking in the air, fr The Snowman. JOHANN PACHELBEL: Vom Himmel hoch –Kevin Bowyer (1986 Mander/Chichester Cathedral) Nimbus 7711
PETER GRITTON: Follow that star. MYRON ROBERTS: Improvisation on God rest ye merry, gentlemen –Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens, director; Jonathan Vaughan (1974 Harrison/Wells Cathedral) Regent 399
PAUL DRAYTON: 2 Anthems (This starry stranger; How like an angel came I down) –Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford/James Henderson, director; Philip Millward (1928 Rushworth & Dreaper/Stowe School, Buckingham) CRC 613
HEATHCOTE STATHAM: Rhapsody on a Ground –Graham Barber (1887 Willis/Truro Cathedral) Priory 226
PAUL DRAYTON: The World's Desire. DAVID BEDNALL: Noe, noe –Truro Cathedral Choir/Christopher Gray; Luke Bond (1887 Willis/Truro Cathedral) Regent 377
EDWARD ELGAR: Pomp & Circumstance March No. 4 in G –Colin Walsh (1898 Willis-1998 Harrison/Lincoln Cathedral) Priory 477
