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This anthology… is undeniably useful in gathering to one place these scattered gems of excellence, the more so the King's College performances guarantee a consistently high level of interpretation... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Jul 2009
Catalogue No: 2289440
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 2 hours 32 minutes

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Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, "Zadok the Priest", HWV 258

Work length5:21

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Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Elgar: Lux Aeterna (After "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations, Op. 36)

Work length3:22

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Goss, J: Praise my soul, the King of Heaven

Work length2:55

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Tom Williamson (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tallis: Spem in alium

Work length7:43

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Peter Steven (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Goss, J: Psalm XXIII: The Lord Is My Shepherd

Work length2:14

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Sir David Willcocks (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Handel: Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: "Hallelujah" (Chorus)

Work length4:26

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Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney)

Work length3:43

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Benjamin Bayl (organ), Sioned Williams (harp), Tom Williamson (piano)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tallis: O nata lux de lumine

Work length1:58

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Oliver Brett (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Gardiner, H B: Evening Hymn (Te lucis ante terminum)

Work length5:32

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James Lancelot (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Byrd: Gradualia ac cantiones sacrae, Liber 1: No. 37, Ave verum corpus

Work length4:32

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Miller, E: Miller / Arr. Rutter, Webbe: When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Work length3:33

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Benjamin Bayl (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Stanford: 3 Motets, Op. 38: No. 3, Beati quorum via

Work length3:10

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical Songs: No. 5, Antiphon

Work length3:19

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John Shirley-Quirk (bass-baritone)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, English Chamber Orchestra
Sir David Willcocks

Byrd: Justorum animae

Work length2:54

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 "Ode for Queen Mary's Birthday": No. 2, Aria and Chorus. "Come Ye Sons of Art Away"

Work length1:49

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Tim Mead (counter-tenor), David Hansen (counter-tenor)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music
Stephen Cleobury

Harris, W: Spenser: Faire Is the Heaven

Work length5:12

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Bairstow: Psalm LXVII: God Be Merciful unto Us, and Bless Us

Work length2:07

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Sir David Willcocks (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Parsons, R: Ave Maria

Work length5:01

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Louis Bourgeois: All People That on Earth Do Dwell

Work length4:56

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Benjamin Bayl (organ), The Wallace Collection (vocals)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Parry: Jerusalem

Work length3:01

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Oliver Brett (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Excerpt, Rutter: Requiem

Work length9:16

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Edward Saklatvala (boy soprano)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia
Stephen Cleobury

Pie Jesu

Track length3:35

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Requiem aeternam

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Holst: I Vow to Thee, My Country

Work length2:33

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tavener: Song for Athene

Work length6:35

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Monk, W H: Monk / Arr. Cleobury: Abide with Me

Work length4:52

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Peter Stevens (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Stanford: Magnificat in G Major

Work length4:17

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James Vivian (organ), Alastair Hussain (boy soprano)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Purcell: Funeral Sentences: Thou Know'st, Lord, Z. 58C

Work length2:33

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David Blackadder (trumpet), Phillip Bainbridge (trumpet), Stephen Saunders (trumpet), Susan Addison (trumpet), Tom Winpenny (organ)
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Gibbons, O: Hosanna to the son of David

Work length3:09

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Oliver Brett (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Scholefield: Scholefield / Arr. Rutter: The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, Is Ended

Work length3:23

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Benjamin Bayl (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Parry: Psalm LXXXIV: O how Amiable Are Thy Dwellings

Work length3:39

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Sir David Willcocks (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor – Kyrie

Work length3:55

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David Van Asch (bass), John Eaton (boy soprano), Nigel Perrin (counter-tenor), Robin Doveton (tenor)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Ireland: Greater Love Hath No Man

Work length6:03

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Christopher Hughes (organ), Michael Pearce (boy soprano), Paul Robinson (bass)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tallis: If ye love me

Work length2:29

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Parry: Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Repton)

Work length3:58

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Thomas Bullard (baritone), Tom Williamson (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Britten: Jubilate Deo in C major (1961)

Work length2:28

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James Lancelot (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Gibbons, O: Drop, drop, slow tears

Work length1:21

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Delius: To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water: I. Slow, But not Dragging

Work length2:12

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Goodenough, R P: Psalm CL: O Praise God in His Holiness

Work length1:46

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Sir David Willcocks (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Weelkes: When David Heard "David's Lamentation"

Work length4:43

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Parry: I was glad

Work length6:47

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Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, Choir of King's College Cambridge, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Military School of Music Band
Philip Ledger

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There is surely no more quintessentially English sound than that of the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, its unaccompanied voices – evocative of immemorial sandstone, of cool cloisters, of evensong in church, chapel and cathedral – serene in the music of Shakespeare’s contemporaries Byrd and Gibbons, ethereal in Delius heard of a summer’s night across the Backs of the River Cam.

No less iconic is the chapel that lends its unique acoustic to that sound. One of the glories of the English perpendicular style of architecture, it was eventually completed in 1547, a little over a century after the founding of the college itself by Henry VI.

This collection opens and closes with coronation music: Zadok the Priest was written for the crowning of George II in 1727, I was glad for that of Edward VII in 1902. Both were so successful that they have been sung at every coronation since their premières. Parry’s ‘processional anthem’ is heard here in its full panoply of extra brass and shouted Vivats, the choir of King’s choir providing the semi-chorus in the exquisite interlude ‘O pray for the peace of Jerusalem’.

In between are motets ancient and modern – from the miniature If ye love me and the architectural splendour of the 40-part Spem in alium to William Harris’s dramatic double-choir Spenser setting Faire is the Heaven; well-known psalms sung to Anglican chant; and favourite hymns, notably All people that on earth do dwell, arranged ceremonially for another coronation, that of Elizabeth II.

As well as national rejoicing there is solemn remembrance. Come ye sons of art away is Purcell’s 1694 birthday ode for Queen Mary, Thou knowest, Lord part of the music he wrote for her funeral just nine months later. John Ireland’s Greater love hath no man is often heard on Remembrance Sunday; Sir John Tavener’s Song for Athene made a powerful impression at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; while John Rutter’s small-scale, personal Requiem touched a wider public following the attacks of 11 September 2001. But ‘Nimrod’ above all epitomises music of national remembrance. Here a choral setting of it, Lux aeterna, represents our ‘Shakespeare of music’, Edward Elgar.

Artists

Thomas Williamson, Peter Stevens, Oliver Brett, James Lancelot, Benjamin Bayl, James Vivian, Tom Winpenny, Christopher Hughes (organ scholars), Edward Saklatvala (treble), David Hansen (alto), The Wallace Collection, Alastair Hussain (treble), David Blackadder, Phillip Bainbridge, Susan Addison & Stephen Saunders (flatt trumpets), John Eaton (treble), Nigel Perrin (alto), Robin Doveton (tenor) & David van Asch (bass), Michael Pearce (treble) & Paul Robinson (bass), Thomas Bullard (baritone)

Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra & Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Academy of Ancient Music, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, City of London Sinfonia, English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Cleobury, Sir Philip Ledger & Sir David Willcocks

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November 2009

This anthology… is undeniably useful in gathering to one place these scattered gems of excellence, the more so the King's College performances guarantee a consistently high level of interpretation in repertoire they would regard as home territory.

Offer, England My England

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