The Crown of Life
$35.00
Pre-order nowAvailable: Mar 6 add to cart
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Crown of Life
Choir of the Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 6 March 2026
Pre-order your copy NOW!
The Crown of Life continues the Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford's exploration of overlooked treasures in twentieth-century English choral music under Owen Rees. At its centre is the first recording of Kenneth Leighton's Missa Christi (1988), the composer's final large-scale sacred work, commissioned by Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis. Alongside it are world premiere recordings of Harold Darke's Blessed is the man that endureth temptation and Imogen Holst's Out of your sleep arise and wake. Works by Rebecca Clarke and Gustav Holst complete the programme, offering a richly varied portrait of composers linked by study with Stanford and united in sacred expression.
Tracks:
LEIGHTON
[1] A Hymn to the Trinity
DARKE
[2] O brother man
LEIGHTON
Missa Christi, Festival Mass:
[3] III. Kyrie Eleison
[4] II. Gloria
[5] IV. Sanctus and Benedictus
[6] I. Agnus Dei
[7] Crucifixus pro nobis, Op. 38, No. 4: Drop, drop, slow tears
HOLST
[8] Three Carols Op. 34, No. 1: This have I done for my true love
[9] Nunc dimittis
[10] Out of your sleep arise and wake
CLARKE
[11] Ave Maria
DARKE
[12] Blessed is the man that endureth temptation
HOLST
[13] Ave Maria, Op. 9b
CLARKE
[14] He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High
DARKE / LEIGHTON
[15] Be strong and of a good courage
HOLST
[16] Lord, who hast made us for thine own
