Mendelssohn: Choral Music
Peter Holder (organ)
St Albans Abbey Girls Choir & Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral Choir, Tom Winpenny
on their showing here, St Albans Abbey Girls Choir can stand comparison with the best boys' choirs, even if their sound is slightly different...Throughout, great care has obviously been taken...
Mendelssohn: Choral Music
Peter Holder (organ)
St Albans Abbey Girls Choir & Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral Choir, Tom Winpenny
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on their showing here, St Albans Abbey Girls Choir can stand comparison with the best boys' choirs, even if their sound is slightly different...Throughout, great care has obviously been taken...
About
Compared with large-scale oratorios such as St Paul, which includes the lyrical chorus How lovely are the messengers, Mendelssohn’s smaller sacred choral works were influenced by Palestrina, ranging from short liturgical motets such as the Sechs Sprüche to the canticle settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. The famous sacred melody ‘O for the wings of a dove’ is to be found in Hear my prayer. The fine choristers of St Albans Cathedral can also be heard ‘on sparkling form’ (Gramophone) in John Rutter’s Gloria (8572563).
Contents and tracklist
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Peter Holder (organ)
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Peter Holder (organ), Laura Hicks (soprano)
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Peter Holder (organ)
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs, St Albans Abbey Girls Choir
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Tom Winpenny (organ)
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Peter Holder (organ)
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Peter Holder (organ), Philip Salmon (tenor)
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
- St Albans Cathedral Choirs
- Tom Winpenny
- Recorded: 16, 19-21 July 2011
- Recording Venue: The Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
Awards and reviews
October 2012
on their showing here, St Albans Abbey Girls Choir can stand comparison with the best boys' choirs, even if their sound is slightly different...Throughout, great care has obviously been taken over words and phrasing. The purity and steadiness of the girls' voices are in themselves utterly delightful, but they do mean that any unsteadiness elsewhere stands out
October 2012
The Three Motets for female voices and organ, Op. 39, are performed with a pleasing freshness...Best of all is the wonderful sonority of the eight-voice a cappella bookends, the Six Anthems and the setting of Psalm 43, Richte mich, Gott. And Winpenny's organ solo is of a comparable splendour.
December 2012
The best known item here - Hear my prayer - is given a very committed performance that can stand comparison with almost any. Here and throughout the disc a listener unaware of the performers would be likely simply to assume that this is a traditional cathedral choir of boys and men...All in all this is a refreshing, enjoyable and well filled disc
