The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey

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The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is... — Charlotte Gardner, bbc.co.uk, 18th April 2008 More…

Release Date: 31st Mar 2008
Catalogue No: CDA67680
Label: Hyperion
Length: 66 minutes

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Excerpt, Stanford: Three Latin Motets, Op. 38

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

II. Caelos ascendit hodie

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Excerpt, Rose, B: The Preces and Responses

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

I. O Lord, open thou our lips

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Barnby: Psalm 24 'Domini est terra'

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

Britten: Festival Te Deum in E, Op. 32

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

Schütz: Der 100. Psalm, SWV36

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Ashley Grote (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

Excerpt, Rose, B: The Preces and Responses

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

II. The Lord be with you

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Vaughan Williams: O Clap Your Hands (Psalm 47)

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

Walton: Missa Brevis

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

I. Kyrie

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II. Sanctus and Benedictus

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III. Agnus Dei

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IV. Gloria

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Finzi: God is gone up, Op. 27 No. 2

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

Philips, P: Ascendit Deus

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Ashley Grote (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

MacFarren, G: Psalm 93 'Dominus regnavit'

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

Walton: Chichester Service

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

I. Magnificat

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II. Nunc dimittis

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Gowers: Viri Galilaei

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

Excerpt, Rose, B: The Preces and Responses

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Westminster Abbey Choir
James O’Donnell

III. The Dismissal

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Pott: Toccata

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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 O’Donnell. They continue their exploration of the rich repertoire of the liturgy in its historical context in the Abbey with music for the Feast of the Ascension. Ascension Day is a particular moment of celebration within the annual round of Easter praise and is celebrated in glorious and triumphal language. The works recorded here represent a wide range of the best of liturgical music, starting from the intricate and joyful writing of the sixteenth-century composer Peter Philips and ending with fascinating and appealing pieces by living composers. Along the way are works from the great flowering of English cathedral music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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18th April 2008

The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is able to produce it convincingly as these chaps...this is Westminster Abbey Choir at their crystalline best, with spot-on pitching, enviable articulation and sympathetic phrasing.

June 2008

The choir of Westminster Abbey under James O'Donnell sing with the happy care which his choristers at the Cathedral used to bring to their work with him. If the echo calls attention to itself at the start, the ears soon adjust. They are not going to complain with so much to enjoy.

26th April 2008

After seven years at the helm, James O'Donnell has made a formidable singing outfit of the Westminster Abbey Choir...The treble line is robust and thrilling, its soloist, Jacob Ewens, a sinuous star in Britten's Te Deum in E. The ensemble is well balanced in the polyphony of Philips's Ascendit Deus and confidently tuned in the awe-filled modernism of Gowers's Viri Galilei, while the organist, Robert Quinney, does more than his share in the dazzling accompaniments.

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