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CDA66916


Recording details: June 1996
St Paul's Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: February 1997
Total duration: 68 minutes 53 seconds

'This is one of the most impressive discs I can recall from this choir' (Fanfare, USA)

Passiontide at St Paul's
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor)
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1
A Lent Prose 'Hear us, O Lord, have mercy upon us'  [3'34]  Anonymous - liturgical
2
Call to remembrance, O Lord  [2'20]  Richard Farrant (?1525-1580)
Symphony No 2 'Lobgesang' 'Hymn of Praise', Op 52  Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
3
Last movement: I waited for the Lord  [4'43]
Connor Burrowes (treble), Edmund Hill (treble), Andrew Lucas (organ)
4
The Lamentation 'How doth the city sit solitary'  [10'17]  Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946)
Andrew Lucas (organ)
5
The Reproaches 'O my people, what have I done to you?'  [12'54]  John Sanders (1933-2003)
6
Ecce lignum Crucis  [6'21]  Brian Chapple (b1945)
Andrew Lucas (organ)
7
Christus factus est  [6'11]  Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
8
Song 46  [1'51]  Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
9
Crucifixus a 8  [3'56]  Antonio Lotti (c1667-1740)
10
This joyful Eastertide  [2'24]  Charles Wood (1866-1926)
11
In Exitu Israel 'Psalm 114' 'When Israel came out of Egypt'  [2'44]  Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946)
Andrew Lucas (organ)
12
Ecce vicit Leo de tribu Juda  [3'36]  Peter Philips (1560/1-1628)
Andrew Lucas (organ)
13
Te Deum in C 'We praise thee, O God'  [8'02]  Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Andrew Lucas (organ)
This sequence of music for Lent, Passiontide and Easter represents a journey through perhaps the most dramatic part of the Church's year. It is a season which has inspired many composers to write some of their most potent pieces, and contrasts the seriousness of intent and poignancy found in, say, Lotti's Crucifixus with the exuberance of music such as Philips's Ecce vicit Leo. Other favourites in this anthology include Mendelssohn's I waited for the Lord, Bruckner's Christus factus est, and the beautiful Gibbons setting of Drop, drop, slow tears with the soloist Anthony Way (who caused such a stir in television's The Choir). There are also two important new works, by John Sanders and Brian Chapple. A celebration both of Easter and of exceptional singing.