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Photograph of Gloucester Cathedral, known as 'The Lighthouse in the Vale' by Sydney A Pitcher
Reproduced by kind permission of Gloucestershire County Council
CDA66076
Superseded by CDH55220

Recording details: February 1983
St Alban's Church, Holborn, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: December 1986
Total duration: 60 minutes 4 seconds

'One of the most luminous and touching of 20th-century Requiem settings' (Tower@classical music)

'Beautiful' (Hi Fi News)

'A moving and impressive addition to the a cappella repertoire' (The Daily Telegraph)

'An hour of the finest English choral music and not to be missed' (The Good CD Guide)

Howells/Vaughan Williams: Requiem & Mass
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best (conductor)
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Mass in G minor  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
1
Movement 1: Kyrie  [4'10]
Mary Seers (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Philip Salmon (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass)
2
Movement 2: Gloria  [4'03]
Mary Seers (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Philip Salmon (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass)
3
Movement 3: Credo  [6'47]
Mary Seers (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Philip Salmon (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass)
4
Movement 4: Sanctus & Benedictus  [5'14]
Mary Seers (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Philip Salmon (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass)
5
Movement 5: Agnus Dei  [3'46]
Mary Seers (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Philip Salmon (tenor), Jonathan Best (bass)
6
Te Deum in G 'We praise thee, O God'  [7'15]  Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Thomas Trotter (organ)
Requiem  Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
7
Movement 1: Salvator mundi  [2'21]
8
Movement 2: Psalm 23  [2'48]
Janet Coxwell (soprano), Michael Chance (countertenor), Philip Salmon (tenor)
9
Movement 3: Requiem aeternam I  [4'30]
10
Movement 4: Psalm 121  [2'38]
Jonathan Best (bass)
11
Movement 5: Requiem aeternam II  [3'45]
12
Movement 6: I heard a voice from heaven  [3'52]
Jonathan Best (bass), Philip Salmon (tenor), Janet Coxwell (soprano)
13
Take him, earth, for cherishing  [8'55]  Herbert Howells (1892-1983)