Composer: William Albright, Edward Bairstow, Claude Goudimel, Patrick Hadley, Calvin Hampton, David Hurd, Bruce Neswick, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Leo Sowerby, George Talbot
Performer: San Francisco Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, Benjamin Bachmann, Thomas Joyce, Abilgail McKee
Conductor: Benjamin Bachmann
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pro Organo
Catalogue: PO7249
Release: 2019
Size: 312 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Talbot: Psalm 62
02. Goudimel: Comfort, comfort ye my people
03. Hurd: Ye who claim the faith of Jesus
04. Sowerby: Now There Lightens
05. Bairstow: I sat down under his shadow
06. Neswick: In the Cross of Christ I Glory
07. Douglas: Were you there?
Hampton: 3 Pieces for Organ
08. No. 3, Pageant
09. Hadley: My beloved spake
10. Come ye faithful, raise the strain
11. Pinkham: Canticle 8: The Song of Moses
12. Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
13. Albright: Look there! The Christ, Our Brother comes
14. Hampton: There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
15. Parry: By gracious powers
16. Amazing Grace (Arr. B. Bachmann)
The Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys, San Francisco, under the direction of conductor Benjamin Bachmann, present a program spotlighting 20th century composers and choral arrangers in the Anglican choral tradition. The voice of a cathedral choir soaring upward like the great building it fills is a thrill and an inspiration to even the most unmusical listener. Grace Cathedral has had a men’s choir since its founding in 1906, but it was not until 1913 that boy’s voices were added. The centuries-old Anglican tradition of a men and boys choir has since blossomed here, as one of a handful of such choirs in the US. The Cathedral music staff oversees an extensive program of choir rehearsals (including mixed-voice volunteer choirs), music classroom work with the choristers, education for the cathedral congregation, concerts, choir tours, and a wide variety of other musical activities in the life of this cathedral and beyond. The choir tradition continues to flourish into Grace Cathedral’s second hundred years, inspiring those who are privileged to hear it, and bringing back fond memories to old choristers.