Canticles from St Paul's

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Canticles from St Paul's
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, Andrew Carwood, with Simon Johnson (organ)

[ Hyperion / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 20 August 2014

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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.

'St Paul's Cathedral Choir gives us here a really fine and outstandingly sung collection of canticles, some of them quite familiar and others decidedly not. In addition, 'canticles' does not refer only to the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis; we also hear settings of the Benedicite, the Te Deum and the Jubilate' (International Record Review

'It's thrilling to hear much-loved works by Stanford and Walmisley so well sung, together with less familiar pieces by Alan Gray, Michael Tippett and Charles Wood. Andrew Carwood and the St Paul's Cathedral Choir pay scrupulous attention to the tiniest of details, so that every word and note come across as something precious and sacred. The wonderfully colourful accompaniments of organist Simon Johnson are, by turns, both dramatic and lyrical. This is choral singing at its finest; in every way, listening to this glorious CD is a heavenly experience' (Gramophone Editor's Choice September 2014)

Tracks:

Archer, M:
Benedicite, omnia opera

Gray, Alan:
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in F minor

Roth, A:
Jubilate

Stanford:
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Op. 10

Tippett:
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense)

Walmisley:
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D Minor

Walton:
Coronation Te Deum

Wood, C:
Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale)