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November 16th, 2012
HAVPCD285 – Music from Douai Abbey

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HAVPCD285 - Music from Douai Abbey
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.

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