Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – All shall be Amen (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Caritas Chamber Choir, directed by Benedict Preece, releases its next album, All Shall be Amen, on 6 October 2023, in partnership with Platoon. All Shall be Amen is Caritas’ sixth album: it presents music by composers including Cecilia McDowell, Eric Choate, Benedict Preece, Gabriel Jackson, Sarah Cattley, Phillip Cooke and Neil Wright, that Caritas has regularly performed and recorded, alongside new exciting collaborations with David Conte and Andrew Smith. The album’s sacred theme is broad, demonstrating an omnium-gatherum of new works, and contemporaneously, championing many fantastic living composers. The majority of its works are world première recordings.

Caritas is a British chamber choir, passionate about raising money for charities through singing, and performing to the highest level both in the UK and throughout Europe. The choir, founded by Benedict Preece, performs music from all periods in around twenty concerts per year around the UK and in France, as well as services in Canterbury Cathedral.

Tracklist:
01. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Jackson: A Prayer of St Bernard of Clairvaux (02:29)
02. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Wright: O vos omnes (03:18)
03. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Cooke: Ubi Caritas (04:42)
04. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Smith: Vinea mea electa (04:21)
05. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Cattley: Prayer of Richard Rolle (03:20)
06. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Cattley: My Eyes for Beauty Pine (02:40)
07. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Cattley: O Lord, Support Us (03:22)
08. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Choate: Keep watch, dear Lord (03:33)
09. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Jackson: Adoro te devote (03:31)
10. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Wright: Crux fidelis (04:51)
11. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Preece, Cooke: Nunc dimittis (04:20)
12. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – McDowall: Rise heart; thy Lord is risen (04:08)
13. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Wright: Ave Maria (04:21)
14. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Preece: Pange lingua (04:23)
15. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Jackson: O Salutaris Hostia (03:18)
16. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Preece: O Sacrum Convivium (03:58)
17. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Cooke: Locus iste (04:30)
18. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Conte: By Night when Others Soundly Slept (03:06)
19. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Conte: Night Prayer (04:37)
20. Caritas Chamber Choir & Benedict Preece – Jackson: All shall be Amen (05:56)