Catalogue
HAVPCD285 – Music from Douai Abbey
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| Disk Title | Music from Douai Abbey |
| Soloists | Terence Charlston (organ) |
| Monks Schola | |
| Choir | Douai Singers |
| Conductor | Dr John Rowntree |
| Location | Douai Abbey, Berkshire |
| Date Recorded | October 2002 |
| Audio Tracks | 22 |
The music on this disc is a snapshot of music in the life of a great Abbey church. At the heart of this is the Latin plainchant. Arising in the earliest days of the Christian Church from the music of the synagogue and temple, this is the music upon which the prayer of the monks is founded, and the music on the disc therefore spans from the chant through renaissance polyphony to the present. It includes music written by monks of Douai, both past and present, and a mass commissioned to mark the Millennium.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 01:54 | A Fancy | John Redford |
| 2 | 04:58 | orate Cæli | Plainchant |
| 3 | 01:37 | Kyrie (from Missa Quarta) | Leos Bárdos |
| 4 | 03:32 | Gloria (from Missa Quarta) | Leos Bárdos |
| 5 | 02:26 | Psalm 71: Blessed be the Lord | Joseph Gelineau |
| 6 | 00:56 | Alma redemptoris mater | Plainchant |
| 7 | 03:04 | See amid the winter’s snow | AbbotP A O’Neill OSB |
| 8 | 03:16 | Sanctus & Benedictus | Leos Bárdos |
| 9 | 02:15 | Agnus Dei | Leos Bárdos |
| 10 | 03:17 | O magnum mysterium | Tomás Luis de Victoria |
| 11 | 13:55 | Magnificat | Jacques Boyvin |
| 12 | 03:24 | Hymn: Veni creator | Plainchant |
| 13 | 02:26 | Kyrie(from Douai Missa Brevis) | Roxanna Panufnik |
| 14 | 04:30 | Gloria (from Douai Missa Brevis) | Roxanna Panufnik |
| 15 | 02:03 | Psalm 103: Send forth your spirit | P Romuald Simpson OSB |
| 16 | 02:17 | Sequence: Læta dies | Plainchant |
| 17 | 01:23 | Confirma hoc | William Byrd |
| 18 | 02:48 | Sanctus & Benedictus (from Douai Missa Brevis) | Roxanna Panufnik |
| 19 | 02:16 | (Agnus Dei from Douai Missa Brevis) | Roxanna Panufnik |
| 20 | 01:45 | Factus est repente | William Byrd |
| 21 | 05:52 | Ave Maria | Felix Mendelssohn |
| 22 | 01;35 | March from Joshua | George Frederick Handel |
The recording has two sequences, one based around the Missa Quarta by Lajos Bárdos (1899-1986) and the other around the Douai Missa Brevis, commissioned from Roxanna Panufnik (b.1968) by the Douai Singers in 2000. The first sequence, allied to the music of the Mass, is of music from Advent to Epiphany; the second is based around the Feast of Pentecost.
