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GMCD 7126
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PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU
A Sequence of Music for
the Holy Eucharist
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Contents:
| 1. |
Kyrie eleison |
Harold Darke (1888-1976) |
[1.38] |
| 2. |
Like as the hart |
Herbert Howells (1892-1983) |
[5.38] |
| 3. |
A Litany |
William Walton (1902-1983) |
[3.13] |
| 4. |
Psalm 114 |
Tonus Peregrinus |
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and Easter Anthems |
Sir. George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987) |
[4.31] |
| 5. |
Credo |
Harold Darke |
[5.14] |
| 6. |
And I saw a new heaven |
Edgar Bairstow (1880-1956) |
[5.15] |
| 7. |
Master Tallis's Testament Organ Solo |
Herbert Howells |
[6.53] |
| 8. |
Sanctus & Benedictus |
Harold Darke |
[2.52] |
| 9. |
O Sweetest Jesu |
Jonathan Gregory (b. 1951) |
[3.30] |
| 10. |
Agnus Dei |
Harold Darke |
[1.42] |
| 11. |
O Living Bread |
Percy Whitlock |
[3.16] |
| 12. |
Here, O my Lord |
Percy Whitlock |
[2.43] |
| 13. |
Be still, my soul |
Percy Whitlock |
[4.15] |
| 14. |
Gloria in excelsis Deo |
Harold Darke |
[3.17] |
| 15. |
A Prayer of King Henry VI |
Henry Ley (1887-1962) |
[1.39] |
| 16. |
Sacerdotes Domini |
William Byrd (1543-1623) |
[1.24] |
| 17. |
Te Deum - Collegium regale |
Herbert Howells
 Sound Clip |
[8.30] |
| 18. |
Psalm Prelude Set 2, No. 3 Organ
Solo |
Herbert Howells
Sound Clip |
[8.23] |
Soloists:
Tracks 1,5,8,10 & 14:
William Smith - Treble Betty Drennan - Alto Mark McGuire - Tenor
Michael Robinson -Bass Nicholas Pierpoint - Cantor
Track 8:
James Hamilton - Treble
Tracks 7 & 18
David Drinkell - Organ
DDD Total Time = 75.27 - Recorded at Belfast Cathedral, Belfast, Northern Ireland 1996
This is a quite outstanding and unique record. Recorded by the deeply-admired
choir of Belfast Cathedral in the summer of 1996, with the fine organist Ian Barber and
directed by the gifted David Drinkell, this album is nothing less than a complete sequence
of music for the Celebration of Holy Communion.
In this regard, it offers the complete Communion Service in F by the great Harold
Darke, one of the finest settings by an English composer of this century, alongside music
by Herbert Howells - organ music and some beautiful anthems, with Walton’s superb
"Litany", the unjustly-neglected "And I Saw a New Heaven" by Edgar
Bainton, and a set of deeply-moving anthems by Percy Whitlock and others.
The magnificent acoustic of this great cathedral is outstandingly well caught by this
brand-new 20-bit digital recording; the choir and organ are exceptionally well served by
the haunting sound on this disc.
Page revised Thursday July 27 2006
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