Hyperion Records | My soul doth magnify the Lord

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CDA66249
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Recording details: March 1987
St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: December 1987
Total duration: 58 minutes 8 seconds

'This rich anthology is presented with breathtaking skill and soul-stirring animation by one of the world's greatest choirs' (Gramophone)

'Superlatively beautiful' (The American Organist)

My soul doth magnify the Lord

Best-loved settings of the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis – 1

St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor)

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		Service in C major, Op 115 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
1		Evening Canticle 1: Magnificat [5'36] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
2		Evening Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [3'28] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
		Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D minor Thomas Attwood Walmisley (1814-1856)
3		Canticle 1: Magnificat [5'12] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
4		Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [2'41] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
		Evening Canticles in E major Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876)
5		Canticle 1: Magnificat [8'59] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
6		Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [3'52] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
		Evening Service in B minor Hugh Blair (1864-1932)
7		Canticle 1: Magnificat [7'49] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
8		Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [3'34] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
		Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in F Charles Wood (1866-1926)
9		Canticle 1: Magnificat [5'41] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
10		Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [3'48] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
		Evening Canticles in D Sir Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)
11		Canticle 1: Magnificat [4'04] Christopher Dearnley (organ)
12		Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [3'24] Christopher Dearnley (organ)

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