The Feast of St Michael and All Angels at Westminster Abbey (Michaelmas)

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The choir, atmospherically recorded in the Abbey itself, sings this demanding repertoire with its customary zeal and a well-blended sound, and the performances are directed with the panache and... — The Telegraph More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2007
Catalogue No: CDA67643
Label: Hyperion
Length: 73 minutes

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Dering: Factum est silentium

Work length3:12

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Leighton: The Preces and Responses

Work length1:17

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

I. The Preces

Track length1:17

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Stanford: Psalm 148 'Laudate Dominum'

Work length3:14

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G

Work length7:05

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Britten: Jubilate Deo in C major (1961)

Work length2:32

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Leighton: The Preces and Responses

Work length6:33

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

II. The Responses

Track length6:33

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Langlais: Messe Solennelle for mixed choir & organ

Work length19:19

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

I. Kyrie

Track length4:27

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II. Gloria

Track length4:54

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III. Sanctus

Track length1:42

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IV. Benedictus

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V. Agnus Dei

Track length5:20

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Tippett: Plebs angelica

Work length3:42

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Alcock, W G: Psalm 91 'Qui habitat'

Work length4:21

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

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

Work length7:19

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Nicholas Trapp (treble), Benjamin Turner (countertenor), Julian Stocker (tenor), Robert Macdonald (bass), Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

I. Magnificat

Track length4:10

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II. Nunc dimittis

Track length3:09

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Howells: A Sequence for St Michael

Work length10:23

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Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Harvey, J: Laus Deo

Work length4:05

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Robert Quinney (organ)

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Hyperion is delighted to present this latest CD from The Choir of Westminster Abbey under their inspirational director, James ODonnell. They continue their exploration of the rich repertoire of the liturgy in its historical context in the Abbey with music for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. The texts for Michaelmas are uniquely dramatic and visionary, describing the angelic host and the war in heaven, and have inspired composers throughout the centuries to create settings of thrilling immediacy. This fascinating disc presents the best of these works from a range of composers. Included is most of the liturgical output of Sir Michael Tippett, whose joyful, extroverted compositional style and powerful sense of drama is perfect for the atmosphere of this festival. Langlais tremendous Messe solennelle is unquestionably his finest piece of church music; radiant and impassioned, using the organ particularly brilliantly to create colour and emotional depth. Herbert Howellss A Sequence for St Michael is an excellent example of the mature style of the composer, an extended and substantial setting in which the Archangels intercession is movingly invoked. These and more established favourites and rarities of the repertoire are performed here with characteristic verve and impeccable musicality in the luminous acoustic of the Abbey.

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The choir, atmospherically recorded in the Abbey itself, sings this demanding repertoire with its customary zeal and a well-blended sound, and the performances are directed with the panache and style one has come to expect from James O’Donnell. Robert Quinney’s contribution as organist culminates in a Laus Deo from Jonathan Harvey aptly described by O’Donnell in his booklet note as “the opulent psychedelia of [Messiaen’s] Turangalîla compressed into four minutes

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