Passiontide at St Paul's
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FARRANT / BAIRSTOW / WOOD / GIBBONS / SANDERS / LOTTI / etc
Passiontide at St Paul's
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lucas, organ / John Scott
[ Hyperion Helios / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 March 2013
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"This is one of the most impressive discs I can recall from this choir" Fanfare
This sequence of music for Lent, Passiontide and Easter represents a journey through perhaps the most dramatic part of the Church's year. It is a season which has inspired many composers to write some of their most potent pieces, and contrasts the seriousness of intent and poignancy found in, say, Lotti's Crucifixus with the exuberance of music such as Philips's Ecce vicit Leo.
Other favourites in this anthology include Mendelssohn's I waited for the Lord, Bruckner's Christus factus est, and the beautiful Gibbons setting of Drop, drop, slow tears with the soloist Anthony Way (who caused such a stir in television's The Choir). There are also two important new works, by John Sanders and Brian Chapple.
A celebration both of Easter and of exceptional singing.
Tracks:
A Lent Prose
Bairstow:
The Lamentation
Psalm 114 - When Israel came out of Egypt
Britten:
Te Deum in C
Bruckner:
Christus factus est, WAB 10
Chapple:
Ecce lignum Crucis
Farrant, R:
Call to remembrance, O Lord
Gibbons, O:
Drop, drop, slow tears
Lotti:
Crucifixus in 8 parts
Mendelssohn:
I Waited for the Lord
Philips, P:
Ecce vicit Leo
Sanders, J D:
The Reproaches
Wood, C:
This joyful Eastertide
