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The Choir Of Westminster Cathedral & Martin Baker – Vexilla regis: A Sequence of Music from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:20 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is world famous for its staple of plainsong and polyphony. The choir explores a wealth of music from this repertoire for the richest of liturgical seasons: Holy Week. Masterpieces of the Renaissance by William Byrd and Tomás Luis de Victoria are woven together with ancient Gregorian chants, including Pange lingua and Adoro te, and later penitential works by Anton Bruckner and Maurice Duruflé. Three of the Cathedral’s illustrious Masters of Music, all of whom have contributed to the Church’s treasury of liturgical music, are also represented. The sequence culminates in a setting of Saint John Henry Newman’s poem Praise to the Holiest in the height by Sir Richard Runciman Terry, the Cathedral’s pioneering Master of Music.
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The Choir of Westminster Cathedral & Simon Johnson – Lumen Christi: A sequence of music for the Easter Vigil (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:34 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ad Fontes
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral is the crowning jewel of Catholic church music and has been at the forefront of English sacred music since its foundation in 1901. This new disc draws us into the mystery of the Paschal Vigil, the very apex of the Church’s liturgical year, transporting us on a journey from darkness into light through a sequence of plainsong and polyphony. It is the first album under the choir’s current director, Simon Johnson, picking up where Vexilla Regis (AF002) left off, and immerses the listener in the Cathedral’s own unique treasury of liturgical music, including compositions crafted by its former musicians, as well as repertoire at the heart of the choir’s work, represented here in polyphony by Victoria, Monteverdi and L’Héritier’s glorious Surrexit pastor bonus.
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