Hyperion Records | Howells/Vaughan Williams: Requiem & Mass

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Superseded by CDH55220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
Available for download on iTunes: Yes

'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)

		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)