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HAVPCD340
Commotio - Night
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HAVPCD339
Richard Pantcheff
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HAVPCD338
Organ Works by Buxtehude & Jackson
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HAVPCD337
EDWARDIAN SPLENDOUR
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HAVPCD334
Alive to God • Poems by John Bradburne
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HAVPCD206
Songs of Church & Childhood
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HAVPCD172
Chants for St Benedict
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Welcome to the new Herald AV Website.
It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of
Dr Mary Berry, aged 91 on the 1st May 2008, Feast of
the Ascension of the Lord
Just a few words about Dr Mary Berry on behalf of the recording team at Herald.
When I first met Dr Mary Berry 1989 to discuss the possibility of making a recording of
an Anglo Saxon Christmas little did I realise what the future years would hold for us both.
Our very first recording was made in 1990 in the magnificent setting of Salisbury Cathedral called
Like the Sun in his Orb, to this day I shall always remember the Exultet sung by John-Roland’s Pritchard
in the darkened Cathedral late a night it was almost as though one was transported back in time.
Mary then fired with immense enthusiasm embarked on a whole series of projects and ideas, which really
encapsulated her years of research into Gregorian Chant. The Herald team were whisked from one venue to
another over the coming years, from Salisbury to Winchester, to Arundel Castle Chapel with the Kings
College Choristers to Pontigny for Pentecost and to the magnificent Notre- Dame Cathedral for the most
stunning recording of the Dupre Vespers. It did not stop there Rome had to be conquered and that did not
happen in a day.
In 1997 we made our first recording in San Gregorio, Rome to commemorate the 1400 years of Saint Augustine
coming to England. It took two more years of discussion and planning before we were finally allowed the
privilege of making a recording in the Vatican and this was done in June 1999 via the kind auspices
of Her excellency Maureen Maglashan the then Ambassador to the Holy See and Fr Allen Duston the
International Director of the Office of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums, a truly remarkable
Priest and very kindly man. We made two recordings for Fr Allen one entitled "Angels from the Vatican" which
was designed to compliment a breath taking exhibition due to tour the USA in 1997 and was recorded in
Charterhouse Chapel in the UK and another in June 1999 "Tu Es Petrus" You are Peter and on this rock I will
build my Church, which was to be recorded in the Vatican.
Dr. Mary Berry with the choir, photographed
during rehersals in June 1999
This too was designed to compliment an exhibition on the history of the Popes that Fr Allen was
preparing to tour the USA. During the time we spent in Rome Mary and the Schola Sang for the Pope and
he came and greeted her as can be seen in the photograph above. It was the most wonderful occasion
for all concerned as you can imagine. Rome and the Vatican had indeed opened its doors to Mary and the
Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge. By this stage Mary had achieved 11 recordings with Herald and I knew she
still very much wanted to record disc of Machault's "Missa Nostre Dame", this disc we finally recorded
in April 2004 in the magnificent setting of Reims Cathedral and released in 2006.
In 2000 Dr Berry was awarded the Papal Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, given in honour of services to the
Church and in 2002 she received a CBE for services to plainsong and Gregorian chant.
I would like to express my real personal gratitude to Dr Mary Berry both as a personal friend and and
as a professional colleague,for all the time she has spent with me and the Herald team over the years
making this wonderful, unique and time-less series of Gregorian Chant CDs… a true treasure trove
and wonderful memorial of her work and dedication to ensuring the beauty of the Chant will stay with
us all for ever.
Dr Mary Berry will be very sadly missed by all the staff at Herald, May she rest in peace.
Brian Johnson
5th May 2008
Gramophone - Top Stories "Mary Berry, Gregorian chant expert, has died"
The Times Newspaper - Obituaries "Mary Berry Musicologist, nun and Cambridge don who dedicated her life to reviving Gregorian chant
The Schola Gregoriana Website
The Schola was founded in 1975 by Dr Mary Berry, a Cambridge musician and musicologist, in order to ensure
that the chant should continue to be taught, and that all those who wished to sing and study this profoundly spiritual
and ancient music should be able to do so. It became a registered charity in 1984.The Schola aims to promote the teaching
and singing of Gregorian chant and, whenever possible, to foster its study and research. The sung liturgical music of Western
Christianity, known since the time of the Carolingian Empire as 'Gregorian Chant', represents an unbroken tradition of two
thousand years of authentic Christian song.
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New Release: HAVPCD206 - Song of Church & Childhood
Harvey Brink - Treble and Martin Neary - Piano.
Martin Neary has been a prominent church musician all his working life. After his early musical education
as a chorister at the Chapel Royal he was awarded an organ scholarship to Cambridge. From 1972-1988 he
was Organist and Master of the Music at Winchester Cathedral and from 1988-1998 Organist and Master of
the Choristers at Westminster Abbey. He successfully combined international choir tours and day-to-day
church music with commissions of contemporary music including new works by John Taverner and Jonathan Harvey.
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New Release: HAVPCD340 - Commotio - Night
Music for Choir and Cello
Including World Premiere recordings by Richard Allain, John Duggan and Frank Ferko
Commotio is one of Oxford’s foremost chamber choirs, formed in August 1999 to provide a refreshing
alternative to the more readily available repertoire offered by most other choral groups, primarily
performing lesser-known material of the 20th and 21st centuries. Matthew Berry, the founder and
conductor of the choir, enthusiastically promotes the work of a younger generation of composers, as
well as bringing to the fore little-known works of more established writers.
In December 2002 Commotio performed the world première of Pierre Villette’s Inviolata, and in June
2007 Night for Choir and Cello by Richard Allain. They have also performed UK premières of works by
Jon Mostad, Peter Klatzow, and Frank Ferko. In June 2005, the choir recorded a CD of works by Peter
Klatzow entitled Towards the Light (Herald HAVP316), receiving extremely positive reviews from
Musical Opinion, International Record Review and Gramophone among many others. The choir has also
contributed to a portfolio CD of works by the young British composer Thomas Hyde, to be released
on Toccata Classics in 2008.
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New Release: HAVPCD339 - Richard Pantcheff
Sonatas for Organ and other Organ Works.
Whilst internationally renowned as a composer in many genres, Richard Pantcheff has established a
particular reputation as a specialist composer of Choral and Organ music. Many of his works have been
commissioned and performed by the major Cathedral and College Choirs of the UK and Germany, including
those of Salisbury, Winchester, St Paul’s, and Glasgow Cathedrals, as well as the choirs of Magdalen
College and Lincoln College, Oxford, and the Clerks of Christ Church.
His music has been performed
extensively in the UK, as well as in the USA, the Caribbean, Germany, Italy, and, most recently, New Zealand.
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New Release: HAVPCD338 - Organ Works by Buxtehude & Jackson
Graham Matthews, Sheffield Cathedral
At the forefront of British organ builders is the world-renowned N P Mander Ltd of London. Noel Mander, the
firm’s founder, installed his first Cathedral organ in Sheffield Cathedral in 1966. The instrument was
substantially completed to the agreed specification, but for its planned Nave Division, following almost
ten years of discussion and vacillation. The final scheme was drawn up in November 1964 by Dr Francis
Jackson, Master of the Music at York Minster, forwardlooking for its day, with features which were more
common on continental instruments than could be found on English Cathedral organs of the time. The separate
Nave division, playable on the Great or on the Positive manual, was added in 1969. This proved to be a
superbly effective addition, with its excellent voicing by Ian Bell. The action throughout was
electric; the pipework was voiced generally on low wind-pressure but for a somewhat anachronistic
high-pressure Tuba rank.
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New Release: HAVPCD337 - EDWARDIAN SPLENDOUR
Organ of St Mary’s Bourne Street, London
The Edwardian era: the image that more than likely springs up, sepia-toned, before the
mind’s eye is of moustachioed, stiff-backed men, ivoried parasols and tea on the lawn. If it
was a period of recovery from the Boer Wars, of moral relaxation after strict Victorianism
and of solid middle class prosperity, it was also a time of tense and febrile European
relations. To some extent music covered its ears and continued heedless, preoccupied
with the heady foibles of comfortable society. Yet at the same time sensitive and pensive
artistic souls, shedding at least a portion of their Victorian emotional torpor, began to assert
themselves through the depth and originality of the music, painting and literature. Parry
and Elgar were the first musicians to begin to open their eyes to new possibilities. If the
strains of artistic modernism were already playing at forte in parts of Europe, they remained
a peripheral echo to all but the most forward-looking British composer. England was by
and large content to let its music glint with gilt sheen and tuneful opulence. Albert Edward,
‘Bertie’, became King Edward VII in 1901 and was crowned in 1902 to the emblematic
sounds of Parry’s ‘I was Glad’. His eponymous reign (1901-10) has left a mark on modern
British consciousness quite disproportionate to its span. Flaring out way beyond their
calendar-counted magnitude, the nine years of the Edwardian period have come to symbolise
a contented Twentieth Century unsullied by the humanitarian horrors of the later century.
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New Release: HAVPCD334 - Alive to God • Poems by John Bradburne
Contemporary Mystic, Poet and Martyr
John Bradburne was a twentieth-century mystic, a prodigious poet, and a martyr of charity. His life and
death have been an example to many, particularly to Christians in Africa. He was born in the Lake District
in England, and educated at Gresham School. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the 9th Ghurka Regiment
of the Indian Army. He served in Malaya and Burma, where he earned the respect and friendship of many. He was
officer in charge of a mortar platoon when Tirtha Bahadur, the platoon sergeant, won the Military Medal for
controlling the mortar fire during a particularly close bombardment. It was reported that John was equally
courageous. The platoon was involved in the fearful disaster of Slim River on 8th January 1942, when he and
another officer, Captain Hart, managed to escape in a small boat, reaching Sumatra after great hardship.
His time in the East and his war experiences inspired a love for the poor, and an intense wish to serve and
understand God. Here it was that he learnt the love of meditation a profound form mental prayer, a practice
he used continually for the rest of his life.
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New Release: HAVPCD333 - Star of the East
Music for Epiphany to Candlemas. The Choir of Winchester Cathedral.
Whereas for many people Christmas fades away as the New Year begins, with a final flourish perhaps at
Twelfth Night, the Church sees the need to dwell for a longer period on the mystery of Christ's incarnation
in the world. That is why, for example, crib scenes are not hastily packed away in January, but allowed to aid
our meditation on the meaning of the arrival of this child in a manger.
With the gospel narrative between Epiphany (January 6th) and Candlemas (February 2nd) re-telling the events
of Christ's childhood and early ministry, the sense of a 'great and mighty wonder' unfolding before us is very
clear, brought to a climax in Simeon's vision of the child Jesus as light and glory
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New Release: HAVPCD332 - The Heart of Cambridge Voices
A 20th anniversary celebration
Cambridge Voices, one of the city's most enterprising and admired choirs, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2007 with a
year-long series of concerts focused upon Paris and Cambridge, conducted by its founder and Director, Ian de Massini. But why
Paris? It was on August 15th 1987 - the feastday of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - in the elegant Parisian church of
St-Etienne-du-Mont, that this young choir made its public début.
This was in response to a request from Madame Duruflé-Chevalier
for a choir to come to this church, where she and her composer husband had been the organists for most of the twentieth century, and
to reinstate some of the glorious liturgical choral music of which so much had been irretrievably lost following the Second Vatican Council.
All of us at Herald AV Publications would like to congratuate Cambridge Voices and Ian de Massini on twenty years of outstanding
perfomances.
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New Release: HAVPCD331 - As the deer longs
Music of Arundel & Brighton in Lourdes
This recording is the fifth collection of music taken from services celebrated by the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Pilgrimage
to Lourdes.
The choice of music reflects the nature of those on pilgrimage, diverse in age and need, all on their personal
journey of faith. Parish musicians, prayer groups, schools and others will find it a useful resource. It was recorded by musicians
and singers from the Arundel & Brighton Diocesan Pilgrimage.
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New Release: HAVPCD330 - Missa Carolae & Songs of the Nativity
Premiere recording of James Whitbourn and the Choirs of Rochester Cathedral
Christmas in Rochester is special. There is an indefinable atmospjhere that embraces both the quiet mystery of
the incarnation and the brash excitement of one of the greatest festivals. The drama unfolds in a building that
has stood for centuries, and in a place where peoplebegan to celebrate the Nativity barley two doozen generations
after the birth of Jesus. This album mixes the range of music heard over the Christmas period.
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New Release: HAVPCD329 - Toccare Incandescent
the Organ of Coventry Cathedral
Hailed by Diapason Magazine, USA for his flawlessly performed debut recital in Pittsburgh and impeccable technique, Joseph
Nolan is gaining recognition as an organist of considerable note.
Joseph was appointed to Her Majesty?s Chapel Royal, St
James's Palace in 2004, where he plays for the regular services and assists in training the Royal Choristers. He has broadcast with
the choir on Radio 3 and Classic FM and was organist for a new disc of Handel anthems, released on the Naxos label. Joseph also plays
regularly at the Wren church, St Bride?s Fleet St, which features a professional choir of international repute.
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New Release: HAVPCD328 - In quires and places...
Crypt Choir of The King?s School, Canterbury
The King's School, Canterbury
The King?s School has its roots in the sixth century and its pupils live and
work within the inspirational and ancient Precincts of Canterbury Cathedral and the grounds of St Augustine's Abbey.
Music has played a central role in the school's life from its monastic foundations.
The Crypt Choir, under the direction of Howard Ionascu, is the school's senior choir. Its primary purpose is to provide
music for weekly school services in Canterbury Cathedral, where the King?s Scholars are part of the Foundation. The choir also
performat outside venues, most recently The Temple Church, St John's, Smith Square and Westminster Abbey. They have toured extensively,
including to a number of European countries, New York, Boston, New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong.
In 2005, the choir reached the final stage of the BBC Choir of the Year at the Lowry Centre in Salford. In July of that year
they were invited to perform Tallis? Spem in alium alongside The Sixteen and Harry Christophers in Canterbury Cathedral.
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New Release: HAVPCD324 - The Voice Of My Beloved
Settings of the Song of Songs from the Renaissance to the present day
Lincoln College Chapel Choir holds a fine reputation amongst the vocal ensembles of Oxford University, singing evensong weekly
and on special feast days in Lincoln’s beautiful seventeenth-century chapel. The choir frequently visits cathedrals across the UK
and has recently sung evensong at Westminster Abbey, St.George’s Chapel, Windsor and Eton College.
The choir makes two tours annually: a UK tour during the Easter vacation and an international tour at the start of the summer
vacation. Past tours have taken the choir to Santiago de Compostela, Switzerland and Rome where they had the privilege of singing
for Pope John Paul II. recently the choir toured to Dublin as resident choir at Christ Church Cathedral. The forthcoming UK tour of
northwest England for Easter 2007 will include performances at Blackburn Cathedral as well as recording four services for the Radio
4 Daily Service.
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New Release: HAVPCD323 - I was Glad
The Choir of Eltham College
Over recent years the Choir of Eltham College, which numbers some eighty singers in its largest form, has toured
extensively throughout Europe and the United States, and has taken up residencies at a number of British Cathedrals.
The choir is much in demand on the professional concert platform. Recent performances have included Handel's Messiah with
James Bowman at the Blackheath Concert Halls and a number of concerts with the Orchestra of St John's at St John's Smith Square.
In November 2005 they sang the world premiere of Karl Jenkins' Sing We Merrily Unto God, again accompanied by the Orchestra
of St John's.
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New Release: HAVPCD327 - Vexilla Regis prodeunt: Music for Holy Week and Easter
The Choir of the London Oratory
Patrick Russill combines the post of Director of Music of the London Oratory with that of Head of Choral Conducting at the
Royal Academy of Music where he is also a professor of organ. In addition he is Visiting Professor of Choral Conducting at
the Leipzig Hochschule für Musik und Theater and Chief Examiner of the Royal College of Organists. He studied as an organ
scholar at New College, Oxford, and was appointed Organist of the Oratory in 1977, becoming Director of Music in 1999.
In 1987 he was invited by the Royal Academy of Music to found the first conservatoire Church Music department in the UK, which
in 1997 developed into the UK’s first specialist postgraduate Choral Conducting course. He is now noted equally as choral
conductor, organist, pedagogue and scholar.
This disk is in support of Aid to the Church in Need (UK). A universal pastoral charity
of the Catholic Church, with over 5,000 projects in Eastern Europe and throughout the world, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)
was founded on Christmas Day 1947 to help those suffering or persecuted for their Faith.
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New Release: HAVPCD172 - Chants for St Benedict
The Benedictine Monks of Worth Abbey, Sussex
As seen on BBC2 Worth Abbey is featured in "The Monastery". A summary of
this programme can be found at the Worth Abbey website
An article at the BBC website descibes the programme and background to Worth Abbey.
Worth Abbey is an adventure in Christian living - an adventure which has at its heart a community of Benedictine monks. These men seek
to follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ within a framework provided by their Rule of Life and their Abbot. Worth draws its inspiration from the
ancient Rule of St Benedict, adapting it to modern needs.
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New Release: HAVPCD326 - Music from Midnight Mass at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
The Choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Terence Duffy was Organist of the Metropolitan Cathedral from 1963-1993 and Liverpool University Organist from 1980-93.
He taught in the Music Department of St Edward’s College, the Choir School to the Cathedral from 1971-93, and was Organ
Tutor for the University Music Department before being appointed Registrar of the Choir School in 1994. He was Chairman of the
Organ Advisory Group of the Society of St Gregory for many years. After retiring from the choir school in August 2004, Mr Duffy was
asked to return to the Cathedral in November 2004 as Director of Music.
This disk is in support of Aid to the Church in Need (UK). A universal pastoral charity
of the Catholic Church, with over 5,000 projects in Eastern Europe and throughout the world, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)
was founded on Christmas Day 1947 to help those suffering or persecuted for their Faith.
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New Release: HAVPCD325 - I will lift up mine eyes
The Choir of Eton College Chapel
In the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, after the third collect of that quintessentially Anglican service, Evensong, there is the
direction:In Quires and Places where they sing, an anthem may follow. The service of Evensong is itself a hybrid, combining parts
of the pre-reformation evening services of Vespers and Compline to arrive at its distinctive form, and the term 'anthem' is a corrupt
form of the word antiphon, the service of Compline ending with a sung antiphon, most usually addressed to the Virgin Mary. Although the
anthem has been one of the most important sources of composition ever since the reformation, perhaps the greatest examples date from the latter
part of the 19th century and the first three decades of the 20th century.
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New Release: HAVPCD322 - Pie jesu
The Brentwood Singers
Andrew Wright enjoys an extensive career as a church musician, conductor, teacher, organist and composer. After gradating from Oxford University, he
was appointed Assistant Master of Music at Westminster in 1979 under Stephen Cleobury, and 1982, Master of Music at Brentwood Cathedral in Essex. Whilst
at Oxford he was a member of The Tallis Scholars and the Oxford University Chamber Orchestra and continued advanced piano studies at the Royal College
of Music under John Barstow. He has worked widely as both organist and conductor on broadcasts and recordings at both cathedrals, in Europe and the USA
and directed innumerable choral and orchestral performances of works extending from the Monteverdi Vespers to Elgar's Dream of Gerontius, working with
soloists including Judith Howarth, Roderick Earle, John Lill and Emma Johnson.
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New Release: HAVPCD320 - Jolly Boating Weather
The Choir of Eton College Chapel
The contents of this recording were chosen with a particular event in mind, the five hundred and fiftieth anniversary
of the foundation in 1440 of the Kynge's College of Our Lady of Eton, beside Windsor by the eighteen-year-old monarch King Henry VI.
Peter Smith's Fanfare for Brass, Percussion and Organ [1] is one of a whole series of flourishes for specific occasions—mostly concert
tours by the Eton Chamber Orchestra and Choir during the summer holidays. The one here recorded was commissioned for the service
commemorating that anniversary on 29th May 1990.
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New Release: HAVPCD319 - King of Glory
The Choir of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
St Mary Redcliffe Choir
Although there are references to a Song School at St Mary Redcliffe
in medieval times, it was not until the 1870s that a choral tradition was fully revivied and has
since prospered. This is the third CD recording undertaken by the choir in the past ten years.
It is designed to demonstrate the high standard of music performed each week by the choir, all
of whom are volunteers.
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New Release: HAVPCD313 - The Carol Collection
Southwark Cathedral Choir, London
The variety of carols on this disc is further emphasised by the use of the singers in various
guises: boys and men, girls and men, boys alone, girls alone, and the full choir. Trained by
Peter Wright and Stephen Disley, Southwark Cathedral Choir is a jewel in the crown of
English Church music, all the more remarkable for having no choir school but training
local boys and girls who come to sing for the joy of it. And it shows!
Classic FM Magazine:
'Imaginative selection of 30 familiar and not-so-well-known carols, sung with infectious enthusiasm.'
BBC Music Magazine:
'Unfamiliar items are a key attraction of The Carol Collection. Amongst the most attractive are
David Iliff's 'Stranger in Bethlehem', Paul Edwards' 'No small wonder' and Beth
Hughes' 'I see your crib' - a boys and men only arrangement with a fine treble solo by
Eliot Francis-Mullins.
Southwark has girl choristers too, and their clarity of tone and unanimity of diction are
brightly to the fore in John Barnard's 'Child of heaven' and the 'Calypso Carol'.
A very enjoyable and unobvious selection.' (****) - Terry Blain.
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New Release: HAVPCD312 - Guillaume de Machault : Messe de Nostre Dame
High Mass in Reims Cathedral - Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge
A votive Mass honouring Mary, the Saturday Lady Mass, was to become a regular and a popular feature
of medieval and later liturgy, both in Reims and elsewhere, ... and since the Feast of the
Assumption (15th August) happened to fall on a Saturday in the year of Machault's death, it
presented itself as a particularly suitable choice. The altar of the Rouelle having long
disappeared, the altar in the east end of the building was chosen for the celebration, where
the full beauty of the Cathedral's acoustics could best be appreciated.
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New Release: HAVPCD311 - My Own Country - A Recital of English Song
Harry Sever (boy soprano) & Robert Bottone (piano), New Hall, Winchester College
Harry Sever was BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2003. He is currently a music and academic
scholar at Winchester College, where he was Head Quirister from 2003?04. Harry has performed
widely as a soloist and broadcast frequently on radio and television. Besides singing, Harry
plays the piano, organ and viola, and is a keen sportsman.
Robert Bottone has been Head of Piano at Winchester College since 1970, and is much in demand as an
accompanist. Besides broadcasting and recording he has appeared at the Wigmore Hall, the Queen
Elizabeth Hall and the Purcell Room, and toured as far afield as Iceland and India.
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New Release: HAVPCD309 - Christus Rex - Catholic Music for the Liturgical Year
The Choir of St Etheldreda's, Ely Place, London
A collection of Catholic music for the liturgical year recorded especially for the Catholic charity
Aid to the Church in Need. Motets and anthems from the Renaissance golden age to the 20th century
are interspersed with a few items of Gregorian chant.
Aid to the Church in Need supports the faithful wherever they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need.
ACN is a Catholic charity, helping to bring Christ to the world. Seminarians are trained; priests and religious
are supported; churches and chapels are built and restored; religious programmes are broadcast; bibles and
religious literature are printed; refugees are helped; over 40 million of ACN's Child's Bibles have been
printed in at least 140 languages.
Please Note - This disk is not available until the 30th of September 2005.
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New Release: HAVPCD305 - Thomas Tallis - Latin & English motets and anthems
The Rodolufus Choir directed by Ralph Allwood
Few, if any, composers of the sixteenth century can boast such a variety of musical styles and genres
as Thomas Tallis. His diverse yet strikingly individual voice was a product of an outstanding musical
imagination combined with the extraordinary historical context in which he lived. His working life
spanned the reign of four monarchs, each preferring a drastically different flavour of Christian
worship from his or her predecessor.
The Rodolfus Choir, well-known for its imaginative programmes and for its presentation of new, often
specially-commissioned music, always makes a strong impact in performance, due partly to the immense
vitality, precision, musicianship, and commitment of the singing, and partly to the inspirational
qualities of its founder-director, Ralph Allwood.
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HAVPCD303
Hear my prayer
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New Release: HAVPCD303 - Hear my Prayer
Winchester College Chapel Choir
Christopher Tolley, Director of Chapel Music
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Founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and twice Chancellor of England, Winchester College
is one of the oldest and best-known schools in Great Britain. Wykeham’s original foundation included 70 scholars, and
although the school has now grown tenfold in size, the same number of scholars continues to live in medieval chambers
next to the College Hall and Chapel. Wykeham also made provision for 16 singing-boys called Quiristers, whose duty
was to sing at Chapel services.
For over 600 years, Winchester College has maintained its ancient choral foundation, and the Quiristers now form the
treble line in Winchester College Chapel Choir, besides singing a good deal in their own right as a boys’ concert choir.
The lower voices in the Chapel Choir are provided by senior pupils (and some staff) from the College, many of whom have
themselves been Quiristers or choristers at cathedrals and other choral foundations.
Winchester College Chapel Choir sings a full range of choral services in the College Chapel. It gives recitals, broadcasts
and records for BBC Radio and Television, and makes regular tours abroad, most recently to Canada and Hong Kong.
The current Quiristers have been particularly successful in the BBC Young Chorister of the Year Competition, winning
the title in 2001, 2003 and 2004. All three winners (Nicholas Stenning, Harry Sever and Thomas Jesty) are featured
on the Herald recordings HAVPCD276 - Something’s Coming" and HAVPCD303 - Hear My Prayer.
BBC Young Choiristers of the Year 2003-2004.
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"Aid to the Church in Need (UK)" is a universal pastoral charity of the
Catholic Church, with over 7,000 projects in Eastern Europe and throughout the world, Aid to the Church in Need (ACN)
was founded on Christmas Day 1947 to help those suffering or persecuted for their Faith.
With Herald AV Publications several recordings have been made to help raise funds and awareness.
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HAVPCD326
Music from Midnight Mass at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
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HAVPCD309
Christus Rex
(20 Tracks/0 MP3s)
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HAVPCD299
Jesus Divine
(27 Tracks/0 MP3s)
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HAVPCD298
Jesu dulcis memoria
(22 Tracks/0 MP3s)
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HAVPCD284
Resurrexit
(22 Tracks/4 MP3s)
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HAVPCD269
Songs of a Shepherd
(19 Tracks/0 MP3s)
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HAVPCD256
Totus Tuus sum, Maria
(19 Tracks/2 MP3s)
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HAVPCD222
Aid to the Church in Need
(19 Tracks/0 MP3s)
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HAVPCD119
Victimæ paschali laudes
(28 Tracks/0 MP3s)
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