Hyperion Records | Stanford: Sacred Choral Music, Vol. 3

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CDA66974
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Recording details: April 1997
Winchester Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: May 1998
Total duration: 61 minutes 1 seconds

'My congratulations on a very fine achievement' (Classic CD)

'Hill and the Winchester Choir are superb. The choral tone is luscious, the discipline outstanding, the recording capture the sumptuous acoustics of the cathedral without blurring the musical details, and the performances are vivid and exciting yet carefully nuanced' (American Record Guide)

'Superb performances, supremely fine singing, magnificently directed. A delight for Stanford lovers' (Organists' Review)

Stanford: Sacred Choral Music, Vol. 3

Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill (conductor)

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		Service in C major, Op 115 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
1		Evening Canticle 1: Magnificat [5'28] Stephen Farr (organ)
2		Evening Canticle 2: Nunc dimittis [2'59] Stephen Farr (organ)
3		Ye choirs of New Jerusalem, Op 123 [4'49] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Stephen Farr (organ)
		Festal Communion Service in B flat, Op 128 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
4		Movement 1: Gloria in excelsis [5'20] Kenan Burrows (treble), Stephen Farr (organ)
5		St Patrick's Breastplate 'I bind unto myself today' [7'55] Anonymous - traditional, arr. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Stephen Farr (organ)
		English Motets, Op 135 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
6		No 3: Glorious and Powerful God [3'46]
		English Motets, Op 135 Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
7		No 2: Eternal Father [6'05]
8		For lo, I raise up, Op 145 [7'51] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Kenan Burrows (treble), William Kendall (tenor), Stephen Farr (organ)
9		Magnificat for eight-part chorus, Op 164 [10'09] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
10		Lighten our darkness [3'17] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Christopher Monks (organ)
11		How beauteous are their feet [3'22] Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Stephen Farr (organ)

This is the third and final disc in Winchester Cathedral's survey of Stanford's sacred choral music. Several favourites here, including the dramatic For lo, I raise up and the grand hymn St Patrick's Breastplate. Also included are some less well known works. Lighten our darkness, written in Windsor during an air-raid in 1918, here receives its first recording; the edition has been prepared specially for Winchester Cathedral Choir by DrJeremy Dibble. The Latin Magnificat was also composed in 1918, almost as a 'sorry' note for a falling-out Stanford had had with Hubert Parry shortly before the latter's death; the score is inscribed: 'This work, which death prevented me from giving Charles Hubert Hastings Parry in life, I dedicate to his name in grief. C.V.S.'

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