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– £10.99The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is world famous for its staple of plainsong and polyphony. The choir explores a wealth of music from this repertoire for the richest of liturgical seasons: Holy Week. Masterpieces of the Renaissance by William Byrd and Tomás Luis de Victoria are woven together with ancient Gregorian chants, including Pange lingua and Adoro te, and later penitential works by Anton Bruckner and Maurice Duruflé. Three of the Cathedral’s illustrious Masters of Music, all of whom have contributed to the Church’s treasury of liturgical music, are also represented. The sequence culminates in a setting of Saint John Henry Newman’s poem Praise to the Holiest in the height by Sir Richard Runciman Terry, the Cathedral’s pioneering Master of Music.
‘A really well-curated Easter pilgrimage; the singing is fine throughout, and so is the recording in Buckfast Abbey.’ (BBC Radio 3 Record Review)
★★★★★ ‘Choir & Organ needs an extra five-star summa cum laude category for discs like this… [Westminster Cathedral Choir’s] journey through Holy Week demonstrates, as you would expect, their unique skill in singing Gregorian chant…combined with an aspiration towards musical perfection and beauty that is unerringly achieved. The same exquisite balance between musical and spiritual intention can be heard throughout the disc...’ (Choir & Organ)
★★★★★ ‘As one would expect, all is sung with appropriate passion, dignified devotion, sublime intensity, and solemn beauty. This world-class and distinctive choir sounds as superb as ever.’ (Organists’ Review)
‘This is really rather special… This anthology, firmly rooted in the liturgy of Holy Week, presents a great cathedral choir fulfilling the very purpose for which it exists. Its special quality is owed in large part to the choir’s excellent singing of the Gregorian chant…and it was especially good to have some sung, and very well sung, by the boys alone… As I said, this CD is something special. Buy it!’ (Cathedral Music Magazine)
1
George Malcolm
Ingrediente Domino
2:42
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Gregorian chant
Psalm 21: Deus, Deus meus
3:19
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3
Gregorian chant
Credo I
5:16
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4
Orlando de Lassus
Improperium exspectavit
3:07
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Gregorian chant
Hymn: Vexilla regis prodeunt
4:15
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William Byrd
Ne irascaris Domine
5:07
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William Byrd
Civitas sancti tui
5:20
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Gregorian chant
Introit: Nos autem gloriari oportet
2:46
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James O’Donnell
Acclamation: I give you a new commandment
1:45
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Martin Baker
Postquam surrexit Dominus
6:12
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Maurice Duruflé
Ubi caritas et amor
(Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens)
2:27
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Gregorian chant
Hymn: Adoro te devote
4:02
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Anton Bruckner
Christus factus est
6:04
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Tomás Luis de Victoria
Improperia
5:28
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Gregorian chant
Hymn: Pange lingua gloriosi
4:31
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Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus à 8
3:41
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Gregorian chant
Hymn: Christe cœlorum Domine
2:54
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Gregorian chant
Psalm 23: The Lord’s is the earth and its fullness
3:15
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Felice Anerio
Christus factus est
2:39
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Anonymous Liturgical
Strepitus
0:40
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Richard Runciman Terry
Praise to the Holiest in the height
3:53
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