Performer: Simon Johnson, St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Andrew Carwood
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDA68058
Release: 2014
Size: 561 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Archer: Benedicite, omnia opera
Walmisley: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in D Minor
02. I. Magnificat
03. II. Nunc dimittis
Tippett: Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense)
04. I. Magnificat
05. II. Nunc dimittis
Gray: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in F minor
06. I. Magnificat
07. II. Nunc dimittis
08. Walton: Coronation Te Deum
Stanford: Complete Morning & Evening Service in B flat major, Op. 10
09. Evening Canticle 1. Magnificat
10. Evening Canticle 2. Nunc dimittis
11. Roth: Jubilate
Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F ‘Collegium Regale’
12. I. Magnificat
13. II. Nunc dimittis
The Canticles are the crowning glory of the Anglican liturgy and have afforded the greatest opportunity for musical development within the Anglican rite. Thousands of people daily hear the world-famous St Paul’s Cathedral Choir and organist Simon Johnson under their director of music Andrew Carwood singing these settings. Here these forces present a satisfying collection including nineteenth-century masterpieces by Stanford and Charles Wood, and from the twentieth century Walton’s Coronation Te Deum, written for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and Tippett’s monumental work for St John’s College Cambridge.