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GMCD 7118
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Music for a
Great Cathedral
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Contents:
| 1. |
O sing joyfully |
Adrian Batten |
[2.06] |
| 2. |
I have surely built thee an house |
William Boyce |
[10.12] |
| 3. |
O Lord, look down from heaven |
Jonathan Battishill |
[4.38] |
| 4. |
Lord, let me know mine end |
Maurice Green |
[6.55] |
| 5. |
Above all praise and majesty (from St Paul) |
Felix Mendelssohn |
[2.14] |
| 6. |
How lovely are the messengers (from St Paul) |
Felix Mendelssohn |
[3.47] |
| 7. |
Turn thee again, O Lord, at the last |
Thomas Attwood |
[3.39] |
| 8. |
Andante in G (from A little Organ Book) |
Charles Macpherson |
[3.27] |
| 9. |
Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me |
John Stainer |
[2.25] |
| 10. |
Psalms 127 and 128 |
John Goss |
[4.52] |
| 11. |
My soul, there is a country |
Sir Charles Hubert H Parry
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[4.26] |
| 12. |
The King shall rejoice |
John Tomkin |
[3.39] |
| 13. |
O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth |
William Byrd |
[3.35] |
Soloists
Track 2: Andrew Giles - Alto; Alan Green - Tenor; Maurice Bevan - Baritone;
John Dexter - Organ
Track 7 Quartet: Robert Eaton - Treble; Ian Hunter - Alto; Ian Thompson - Tenor;
Geoffrey Shaw - Baritone
Track 8: Christopher Dearnley - Organ
Track 9: Geoffrey Shaw - Baritone
ADD Total Time = 56.34
The Organ was reconstructed between 1972 & 1977 by N P Mander Ltd
When Adrian Batten sang and played the organ at
St. Paul’s Cathedral in London between 1626 and 1637, he could not have imagined that
the great Cathedral would be destroyed in the Great Fire of London, in 1666. John Tomkins,
too, was organist in the old Cathedral. Sir Christopher Wren’s renaissance
masterpiece of a new Cathedral was to become the home to William Boyce, who was a
choirboy, as well as Maurice Greene, Thomas Attwood and Sir John Goss, each of whom held
the post of organist at the Cathedral, and wrote music for the spacious acoustic of the
cruciform building.
The fine English music featured on this recording has a fitting companion in Felix
Mendelssohn, who was a highly popular figure on the English musical scene. He made no
fewer than ten visits, and during one of them his oratorio Elijah received its first
performance at the Birmingham Festival of 1846.
Page revised 25.06.03
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