The Choir Of Westminster Cathedral & Martin Baker – Vexilla regis: A Sequence of Music from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

The Choir Of Westminster Cathedral & Martin Baker – Vexilla regis: A Sequence of Music from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday (2024)
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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.

“A really well-curated Easter pilgrimage; the singing is fine throughout, and so is the recording in Buckfast Abbey.” (BBC Radio 3)

“Choir & Organ needs an extra five-star summa cum laude category for discs like this… [Westminster Cathedral Choir’s] journey through Holy Week demonstrates, as you would expect, their unique skill in singing Gregorian chant…combined with an aspiration towards musical perfection and beauty that is unerringly achieved. The same exquisite balance between musical and spiritual intention can be heard throughout the album…” (Choir & Organ)

“This is really rather special… This anthology, firmly rooted in the liturgy of Holy Week, presents a great cathedral choir fulfilling the very purpose for which it exists. Its special quality is owed in large part to the choir’s excellent singing of the Gregorian chant…and it was especially good to have some sung, and very well sung, by the boys alone… As I said, this album is something special. Buy it!” (Cathedral Music Magazine)

Tracklist:
1-1. Peter Stevens – Ingrediente Domino (02:39)
1-2. Martin Baker – Psalm 21 “Deus, Deus meus, respice in me” (03:19)
1-3. Peter Stevens – Credo I (05:15)
1-4. Martin Baker – Improperium expectavit cor meum, LV 852 (03:07)
1-5. Peter Stevens – Vexilla regis prodeunt (04:14)
1-6. Martin Baker – Cantiones sacrae I: No. 20, Ne irascaris Domine (05:07)
1-7. Martin Baker – Cantiones sacrae I: No. 21, Civitas sancti tui (05:19)
1-8. Martin Baker – Nos autem gloriari (02:45)
1-9. Peter Stevens – I Give You a New Commandment (01:45)
1-10. Martin Baker – Postquam surrexit Dominus (06:12)
1-11. Martin Baker – 4 Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens, Op. 10: No. 1, Ubi caritas et amor (02:26)
1-12. Peter Stevens – Adoro te devote (04:01)
1-13. Martin Baker – Christus factus est, WAB 11 (06:04)
1-14. Martin Baker – Popule meus (05:27)
1-15. Peter Stevens – Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium (04:31)
1-16. Martin Baker – Crucifixus à 8 (03:41)
1-17. Peter Stevens – Christe cœlorum Domine (02:53)
1-18. Peter Stevens – Psalm 24 “The Earth Is the Lord’s and the Fullness Thereof” (03:14)
1-19. Martin Baker – Christus factus est (02:38)
1-20. Martin Baker – Strepitus (00:40)
1-21. Martin Baker – Praise to the Holiest in the Height (03:53)

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