Performer: Jeremy Budd, Andrew Lucas, St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir
Conductor: John Scott
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Hyperion
Catalogue: CDH55445
Release: 1991
Size: 238 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer
02. Rose: Feast Song for Saint Cecilia
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
03. V. Ye now are sorrowful
04. Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
05. Harvey: Come, Holy Ghost
06. Tavener: I will lift up mine eyes (Psalm 121)
07. Wise: The ways of Zion do mourn
Stanford: Complete Morning & Evening Service in G major, Op. 81
08. Evening Canticle 1. Magnificat
09. Evening Canticle 2. Nunc dimittis
10. Britten: Festival Te Deum in E, Op. 32
This recording features St Paul’s Cathedral Choir at the peak of their power, performing a yearning sequence of liturgical works that includes some of the best-loved choral works of all time: Mendelssohn’s Hear my prayer (‘O for the wings of a dove’), an excerpt from Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem, and Allegri’s Miserere. Twentieth-century ‘mystics’ Jonathan Harvey and Sir John Tavener are both represented, and the album reaches a crescendo through the expansive writing of Stanford in G and the joyously declamatory Te Deum by Benjamin Britten.