Hyperion Records | Elgar: Cathedral Music

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CDH55147
(Originally issued on CDA66313)
Helios (Hyperion's budget label)

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Recording details: May 1988
Worcester Cathedral, United Kingdom
Produced by Mark Brown
Engineered by Antony Howell
Release date: July 2003
Total duration: 57 minutes 52 seconds

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'The Worcester performances are near ideal ... vividly atmospheric recording' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

Cathedral Music

Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt (conductor)

1		Ave verum corpus, Op 2 No 1 [2'50] with Adrian Partington (organ)
2		Ave Maria, Op 2 No 2 [2'49] with Adrian Partington (organ)
3		Ave maris stella, Op 2 No 3 [4'29] with William Carslake (treble), Adrian Partington (organ)
4		Angelus, Op 56 'Ave Mary! – Look down, O Queen, on thy children lowly bending' [3'14]
5		I sing the birth 'Alleluia. I sing the birth' [4'44]
6		Lo! Christ the Lord is born [2'03] with Adrian Partington (organ)
7		Great is the Lord, Op 67 [9'31] with Adrian Partington (organ)
8		Ecce sacerdos magnus [3'05] with Adrian Partington (organ)
9		O salutaris hostia I [2'05]
10		O salutaris hostia II [3'04] with Adrian Partington (organ)
11		O salutaris hostia III [2'48] with Adrian Partington (organ)
12		Fear not, O land [3'37] with Adrian Partington (organ)
13		O hearken thou, Op 64 [4'28] with Adrian Partington (organ)
14		Give unto the Lord, Op 74 [9'05] with Adrian Partington (organ)