England My England

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, HWV258 'Zadok the Priest'

Work length5:21

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Choir of King's College, Benjamin Bayl, Cambridge, Alastair Ross, Pavlo Beznosiuk
Academy of Ancient Music, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Elgar: Lux aeterna

Work length3:22

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Stephen Cleobury (director)
Choir of King's College Cambridge

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

Work length2:55

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Thomas Williamson (organ), Stephen Cleobury (director), Stephen Cleobury (recorder), Kerry Brown (assistant production)
The Wallace Collection, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tallis: Spem in alium for eight five-part choirs '40-part Motet'

Work length7:43

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Stephen Cleobury (director)
Choir of King's College Cambridge

Goss, J: Psalm 23: 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: Hallelujah Chorus (from Messiah)

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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Thomas Williamson (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (director)
The Wallace Collection, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Tallis: O nata lux de lumine 5vv

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Choir of King's College Cambridge, Oliver Brett (organ)
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: Ave verum Corpus

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Miller, E: When I survey the wondrous Cross (Rockingham)

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Benjamin Bayl (organ), Stephen Cleobury (director), Kerry Brown (assistant production)
The Wallace Collection, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Stanford: Three Motets, Op. 38, No. 3. - Beati quorum via (Psalm 119: 1)

Work length3:10

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs: 5. Antiphon (chorus only)

Work length3:19

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

Byrd: Lustorum Animae

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Purcell: Come ye sons of art away

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David Hansen (vocals), Choir of King's College Cambridge, Jacques Imbrailo (lead vocals), Stephen Cleobury (director), Oliver Brett (organ)

Harris, W: Faire is the Heaven

Work length5:12

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Bairstow: Psalm 67: 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

Robert Parsons (i): Ave Maria

Work length5:01

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Genevan Psalter 1551: All people that on earth do dwell (The Old Hundredth)

Work length4:56

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Benjamin Bayl (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (director), Wallace Collection (lead vocals), The Wallace Collection (trumpet), Doris Soffel (mezzo-soprano), Edith Mathis (soprano)
The Wallace Collection, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge, London Philharmonic Choir, John Alldis
Stephen Cleobury, Klaus Tennstedt

Parry: Jerusalem

Work length3:01

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

Excerpt, Rutter: Requiem

Work length9:16

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Thomas Harries (tenor), Jo Cole (cello), Christopher Hooker (oboe), Duke Dobing (flute), Edward Saklatvala (tenor)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, Sinfonia of London
Stephen Cleobury

III. Pie Jesu

Track length3:35

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I. Requiem aeternam

Track length5:41

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Holst: I Vow to Thee, My Country

Work length2:33

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

Tavener: Song for Athene

Work length6:35

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Stephen Cleobury (director)
Choir of King's College Cambridge

Monk, W H: Abide with me

Work length4:52

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

Stanford: Morning, Communion and Evening Services in G Major, Op. 81: No. 9, Evening Canticle 1, Magnificat, "My soul doth magnify the Lord" (Treble, Chorus, Organ)

Work length4:17

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James Vivian (organ)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Purcell: Thou know'st, Lord, Z 58c

Work length2:33

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

Gibbons, O: Hosanna to the Son of David, a 6

Work length3:09

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

Scholefield: The Day Thou gavest, Lord, is ended (St Clement)

Work length3:23

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Benjamin Bayl (organ), Stephen Cleobury (director), Kerry Brown (assistant production)
The Wallace Collection, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Parry: Psalm 84: 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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Nigel Perrin (counter-tenor), Robin Doveton (tenor), John Eaton (treble vocals), David Van Asch (bass)
Choir of King's College Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks

Ireland: Greater Love Hath No Man

Work length6:03

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Paul Robinson (bass-baritone), Michael Pearce (bass-baritone), Christopher Hughes (organ), Leonard Pearcey (vocals)
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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Benjamin Bayl (organ), Thomas Bullard (bass-baritone), Stephen Cleobury (director)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, The Wallace Collection
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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Stephen Cleobury (director), Kerry Brown (assistant production)
The Wallace Collection, Choir of King's College Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury

Delius: To be sung of a summer night on the water (1995 - Remaster): I. Slow, but not dragging

Work length2:12

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Choir of King's College Cambridge
Philip Ledger

Goodenough, R P: Psalm 150: 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, a 6, "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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Band of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, Royal Military School Of Music Band (lead vocals), Cambridge University Musical Society (lead vocals)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Choir of King's College Cambridge
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.

England My England

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