After the Sabbath

Release Date: 24th Mar 2017
Catalogue No: REGCD490
Label: Regent

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Weelkes: Hosanna to the Son of David

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum I

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

trad.: Ding dong! merrily on high

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Davies, M L: The Souls of the Righteous

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Huxley: When I survey the wondrous cross

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Fleming, A: Nunc Dimittis

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Schütz: Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes, SWV 386

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Kelly, B: O clap your hands (Birmingham setting)

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Tallis: If ye love me

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Mendelssohn: Say, where is he born, the King of Judaea

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Duruflé: Méditation, Op. post.

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Mendelssohn: Kyrie eleison (8 voices)

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Bruckner: Christus factus est

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Bairstow: The Lamentation

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Mendelssohn: Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains from Elijah

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Dvořák: Tu Trinitatis

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

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

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Palestrina: Sicut cervus

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

Harris, W: Faire is the Heaven

David Hardie (organ)
The Choir of Birmingham Cathedral
Marcus Huxley

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This recording was inspired by a unique collaboration between Tony Iommi (lead guitarist of Black Sabbath), the Dean of Birmingham, and the Cathedral Choir, gifting the download-only track, How Good It Is to the City of Birmingham. (Details at www.birminghamcathedral.com), released in January 2017.

This new disc follows that with a collection of favourite anthems for the church’s year, and includes three works written over the last twenty years for Birmingham Cathedral and here receiving their first recording. The musical tradition of Birmingham’s Anglican Cathedral is one of the city’s greatest glories. The Cathedral Choir, comprises three sections (men, boys and girls) who perform both separately and in various combinations, They sing services in the Cathedral several times each week during school term time, give concerts in the Cathedral, and perform at other venues in the Midlands and beyond.

The Choristers attend 12 different schools around the City, while the adult singers are either students or they follow a variety of occupations. The Choir has toured regularly in Britain and Europe. Their repertoire extends from plainchant to recent compositions, some specially commissioned for the Choir, and they broadcast regularly live on BBC Radio 3. Other recent projects have included a collaboration with the internationally-known artist Roger Hiorns, which entailed singing Choral Evensong in a recumbent position.

In 2017 Marcus Huxley, the Cathedral’s Director of Music retires after thirty-one years. He is an Honorary Canon of the Cathedral, and an Honorary Fellow of Birmingham Conservatoire.

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