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Track(s) taken from CDA66916

A Lent Prose

First line:
Hear us, O Lord, have mercy upon us
composer
Anonymous - liturgical
author of text
Anonymous - liturgical
author of text
W J Birkbeck (1869-1916)
adaptions of text

St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott (conductor), Jonathan Arnold (bass), Connor Burrowes (treble), Edward Burrowes (treble)
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: 3 minutes 34 seconds

Cover artwork: Two Haloed Mourners (Fragment from The Burial of St John the Baptist). Aretino Spinello (active 1373-died c1410)
Reproduced by permission of The Trustees, The National Gallery, London
 

Reviews

‘This is one of the most impressive discs I can recall from this choir’ (Fanfare, USA)
The plainsong responsory Hear us, O Lord (Attende Domine) is traditionally sung during Lent and known in the English liturgy as the ‘Lent Prose’. It is to be found in the Liber usualis (in its Latin version) as one of the cantus varii, and appears in an English translation in the English Hymnal (1906), having been adapted by W J Birkbeck.

from notes by William McVicker © 1997

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