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HAVPCD122 – Gregorian Chant
It was traditionally Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century who gathered together the first collection of liturgical music, which thereafter became known as Gregorian Chant. With the development of polyphony in the Middle Ages the chant continued to be sung and often to form the cantus firmus, the plainsong or ground of the polyphony. After a period of decline it was taken up again with enthusiasm and in a restored form in the last century, due largely to the efforts of the French Benedictines. Gregorian chant is the official liturgical music of the Catholic Church, and is still regularly sung in certain monasteries and cathedrals.
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Audio Test!| HAVPCD131 – Gregorian Chant Sunday Vespers, Benedictine and Compline |
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| Summary – Even in modern times, the contrast of light and darkness, and the ceaseless progression of night and day, run very deep in us: light and life, darkness and death are profoundly linked. Christianity inherited from Judaism the pattern of prayer associated with the rhythm of the day, and has enriched it with its own insights. Vespers is traditionally sung when the day’s work is finished, when the shadows lengthen, the lamps are lit, and the evening star (`vesper’ in Latin) appears: an office of praise, and of thanksgiving for the day. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 1 | Sunday Vespers: Introduction: Deus in adiutorium Psalms 109, 110, 111, 112 with Antiphons Canticle: Salus et gloria |
13:40 |
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| 7 | Compline: Introduction and Psalms 4, 90, 133 Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum Scripture reading, Short responsory Nunc dimittis and Antiphon, Collect and Blessing |
04:38 |
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| 18 | Introduction: Confiteor etc. |
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| HAVPCD155 – Music from Renaissance Portugal Polyphony from the Royal Monastery of Santa Cruz, Coimbra |
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| Summary – The city of Coimbra in northern Portugal was for several periods in early history of the country both its capital and the seat of its medieval university. The old city is set impressively on the slopes of a hill overlooking the river Mondego, with the buildings of the university dominating the town. During the sixteenth century, thanks largely to the efforts of King Joaõ III, Coimbra became the greatest educational centre – and one of the foremost cultural centres – in Portugal. The second most powerful institution in the cultural life of town was the Augustinian monastery of Santa Cruz, which, since its foundation in 1131, enjoyed the protection of royalty. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 2 | Introit: Missa pro defunctis Duarte Lobo |
04:57 |
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| 5 | Gradual: Missa pro defunctis Duarte Lobo |
03:26 |
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| 14 | Ave Regina cæorum Pedro de Cristo |
02:40 |
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| 17 | Stabat Mater António Carreira |
03:06 |
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| HAVPCD157 – Gregorian Chant Gaudete A selection from the Liturgical Year |
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| Summary – A selection of chants for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, Sunday in Ordinary Time (Lauds), the Liturgy of the Dead, and Christ the King. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 7 | Alma Redemptoris mater | 01:07 |
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| 15 | Regina cæli | 01:38 |
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| 24 | In Paradisum; Chorus Angelorum | 01:04 |
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| HAVPCD166 – Crucifixus A Sequence of Music for Passiontide and Holy Week |
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| Summary – This sequence of pieces for Passiontide and Holy Week brings together the themes of penitence, the Holy Eucharist and the Passion story. The unifying element in the programme of music is provided by the movements of Fauré’s ‘Messe basse’, interspersed in a quasi-liturgical manner… To complete the sequence, the choral items are supplemented by organ pieces of a meditative nature. | |||
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| 3 | Miserere mei (Psalm 51) Gregorio Allegri |
11:35 |
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| HAVPCD170 – Marcel Dupré: Les Vêpres de la Vierge Op. 18 Vespers of Our Lady : 15 antiphons and versets |
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| Summary – Marcel Dupré’s Fifteen Antiphons came into being as a set of improvisations played during the celebration of Vespers in Notre-Dame on 15 August 1919. Their true title, Les Vêpres de la Vierge, is also a clue to their true nature: a set of improvisations inserted into the choral liturgy, replacing fifteen items of it. A centuries-old living tradition of such alternation between choir and organ (alternatim) lies behind Dupré’s Op. 18. On that 15 August1919 an Englishman, Claude Johnson, the General Managing Director of Rolls-Royce, was attending Vespers. A man of great vision and sensitivity, he was struck by the beauty of Dupré’s music and wanted to buy a copy of it. On being told that it had been improvised, and therefore not written down, he at once persuaded Dupré to try to recapture his original inspiration and commissioned the set of 15 pieces. They appeared the following year… | |||
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| 1 | Deus in adjutorium Dum esset rex/Ps 110 (109) |
03:31 |
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| 3 | Læva ejus/Ps 113 (112) | 02:15 |
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| 13 | Solve vincla reis | 00:24 |
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| 22 | Quia respexit | 00:19 |
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| 33 | Salve, Regina | 04:12 |
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| HAVPCD180 – The Ceremony of the Shepherds and Midnight Mass according to the 13th-century Rite of Rouen Cathedral |
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| Summary – The ceremony of the Shepherds is a Christmas play which would have been performed by the clergy themselves, from the most junior to the most senior. It takes place suring the night, between the end of the Night Office of Matins and the beginning of Midnight Mass. It opens with the Angel’s announcement to the Shepherds, ‘Fear not, I bring you good tidings’… | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 9 | Alleluia: Dominus dixit | 01:56 |
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| 15 | Sanctus: Ante secula | 05:10 |
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| 21 | Benedicamus Trope | 01:09 |
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| HAVPCD192 – The martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket The Unfinished Vespers: 29 December 1170 |
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| Summary – The story of the Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket has been told many times. There are contemporary eye-witness accounts of how the four knights rushed in and slew the Archbishop in his own cathedral of Canterbury; there are scholarly modern historical studies; the story is told in the stained-glass windows of the cathedral itself; and of course there are Chaucer’s entertaining Canterbury Tales… This recording approaches the story from another angle: it is an attempt to capture through music each major act of the grim drama as it unfolds. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 4 | Subvenite | 01:57 |
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| 10 | Lauds for the Feast of St Thomas, Archbishop and Martyr | 39:43 |
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| HAVPCD193 – Evensong For St Etheldreda Music by Basil Harwood, Arthur Wills, Sebastian Forbes |
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| Summary – Etheldreda, a Saxon princess, was born c.630 at Exning near Newmarket. She was married twice: in 652 to Tonbert, a local prince, who gave her the Isle of Ely as a dowry, and in 665 to Egfrid, Prince (and later King) of Northumbria; despite these marriages Etheldreda retained her virginity. In 672 she left her husband to become a nun in the Monastery at Coldingham, near Berwick. On hearing that Egfrid was coming to take her back, Etheldreda fled to the Isle of Ely, where she took refuge. In 673 she founded there a double monastery (for both men and women) and was installed as first Abbess by Wilfrid, Archbishop of York. | |||
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| 1 | Organ: Evocation (Salve Regina) Michael Howard |
04:23 |
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| HAVPCD195 – Gregorian Chant: Midnight Mass for Queen Mary Tudor John Sheppard: Missa Cantate |
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| Summary – Until the recent discovery of his will, the biographical mist hanging over John Sheppard (c.1515-59) was virtually impenetrable. We still know nothing of his early years but at least we know a good deal about his later professional life. In 1541 he became informator choristarum at Magdalen College, Oxford, a post he held until around 1547. At about this time Sheppard moved to London, where his name appears in Chapel Royal lists until his death in January 1559. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 6 | Troped Lesson: Laudes Deo John Sheppard |
10:12 |
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| 15 | Sanctus: Missa Cantate John Sheppard |
05:21 |
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| HAVPCD200 – The Coming of Augustine A.D. 597 – ‘Not Angles, but Angels’ Gregorian Chant from San Gregorio, Rome |
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| Summary – The mission of Augustine from Rome to England: In the spring of A.D. 597 St Augustine of Canterbury first set foot in the south-east corner of England. There is an English Heritage cross in a field in Ebbsfleet, Kent, that marks the spot. Augustine was commissioned by Pope Gregory I – Gregory the Great – to take the Good News of the Gospels to the pagan Anglo-Saxons, who had invaded and colonized much of Eastern Britain, and to bring a new ministry to the scattered Christian flock that survived across the country following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the west. | |||
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| 8 | Videns Rome vir beatus | 02:44 |
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| 25 | Exultet in hac die | 01:49 |
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| HAVPCD202 – Choral Evensong from Eton | |||
| Summary – When Archbishop Cranmer was compiling the first authorized English Prayer book (1549), he was assisted by a group of thirteen divines known, appropriately for this recording (as it met within sight of Eton College), as the Windsor Commission; but his own style and sure linguistic touch run through the whole book. In devising the office of Evensong, Cranmer combined the old Breviary offices of Vespers and Compline, but with his extensive knowledge of Continental liturgies to draw upon as well, he was able to produce a service which was distinctive in format and felicitous in expression. | |||
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| 7 | Psalm 129 Sæpe expugnaverunt John Goss |
02:14 |
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| 8 | Psalm 130 De profundis from Henry Purcell |
02:41 |
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| 16 | Preces and Responses William Byrd |
01:28 |
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| HAVPCD212 – Mediaeval Carols The Mystery of Christmas Night: Words and music from the Middle Ages |
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| Summary – This meditation on the mystery of Christmas night has evolved through annual performances in Wells Cathedral, in which the whole space of the building is used. The materials of the meditation are music and words from the centuries during which the cathedral was being built, and the whole programme was devised by John Rowlands-Pritchard. | |||
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| 2 | De supernis sedibus Worcester, 13th century |
02:25 |
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| 4 | Alleluia: A new work is come on hand 15th century |
04:23 |
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| 19 | Letabundus Ecce completa sunt omnia Salisbury Antiphoner |
03:29 |
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| HAVPCD220 – Angels from the Vatican The invisible made visible |
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| Summary – If the Invisible made Visible is a way of describing an artist’s conception of an Angel, then for those other masterpieces, the works of a musician’s craft, one might say that the Inaudible becomes Audible. Out of silence the composer creates something that enables us to recapture an echo of Gabriel’s resounding AVE at the Annunciation. We hear the song of the Angels at the Birth of Christ and we catch a phrase or two of the unending worship of the heavenly Seraphim. These angelic utterances are recorded here, together with many chants describing the activities of the holy Angels. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 1 | Angeli, Archangeli | 00:37 |
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| 10 | Angelus ad pastores ait | 00:31 |
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| HAVPCD225 – Organ music for the Christmas season The organ of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle |
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| Summary – Roger Judd has been associated with the music of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, since 1985, when he was appointed Assistant Organist. In this capacity he accompanies the choir for services in the Chapel, a daily round which has been offered almost uninterrupted since 1348. He has broadcast with the choir on radio and television many times, and accompanied them on tours abroad and on recordings of music by Parry, Tomkins and Tavener. In 1997 he made two organ solo CDs for Herald Records, of music by Max Reger (HAVP203) and a collection of popular pieces; both were received very favourably by the critics. | |||
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| 1 | In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 Johann Sebastian Bach |
02:19 |
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| 5 | Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 Johann Sebastian Bach |
04:48 |
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| 16 | Nun komm’ der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 Johann Sebastian Bach |
04:38 |
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| HAVPCD229 – Sebastian Wolff Jeremy Filsell at Buckfast Abbey plays Organ music by - |
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| Summary – Father Sebastian Wolff has been a Buckfast monk since 1948 and has dedicated his life to the work and worship of that Devon monastery. Both his duties as an organist to the community in its regular cycle of prayer and liturgy and the undeniable beauty of the Abbey church have, over the years, inspired the creation of his music. Buckfast enjoys an acoustic of around six seconds, which bathes any sound, be it plainchant or organ music, with an other-worldly aura…which lifts the heart and mind of the listener to a spiritual awareness so in keeping with the intention of the Abbey community’s daily round of worship. The music on this disc covers all the main liturgical seasons: Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Trinity and Ordinary Time | |||
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| 1 | Fantasia and Fugue in D major | 08:32 |
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| 3 | Prelude: O come, O come Emmanuel | 01:21 |
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| 10 | Prelude: Come, Holy Ghost | 01:41 |
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| 12 | Processional | 05:20 |
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| 15 | Fanfare for Easter Day | 01:03 |
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| 19 | Carillon (Hommage á Mulet et Vierne) | 04:16 |
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| HAVPCD232 – Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B. The State Funeral |
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| Summary – The death of Nelson has become the central event of the Battle of Trafalgar. Even at the time it over-shadowed all other aspects of the great drama, and public mourning for Nelson completely eclipsed the rejoicing for what was, after all, one of the most decisive naval victories ever won. People who had never even met him grieved for him. There was a widespread sense of personal loss, and so the public grief for Nelson found its expression and release in an emotional public funeral. The ceremonies were spread over two days: a grand water-borne procession up the River Thames from Greenwich, where his coffin had lain in state; a huge and colourful procession through the streets of London; and finally a two-hour service in St Paul’s Cathedral, with stark, haunting words and glorious music. | |||
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| 14 | Nunc dimittis Thomas Attwood |
02:51 |
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| 31 | Te Deum F. J. Haydn |
09:36 |
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| HAVPCD236 – The Canterbury Pilgrims Music for Chaucer’s Prologue |
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| Summary – Geoffrey Chaucer (c1340-1400) was brought up as a boy at Court and as a young man saw military service in France. He was a diplomat both in Italy and in France, and later a type of senior civil servant. He read widely in European literature and his most popular work, The Canterbury Tales, displays his experience and learning. It comprises a number of stories told to pass the time during a pilgrimage on horseback from London to the shrine of St Thomas Becket in Canterbury. The Prologue to the Tales describes the thirty pilgrims. Opus Anglicanum’s recital interweaves the Prologue with music contemporary with Chaucer, to set the scene, and to complement and illustrate the various characters. | |||
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| 5 | Thomas gemma Cantuariensis/Thomas cæsus English 14th c. |
02:31 |
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| 16 | Douce dame jolie Guillaume de Machaut |
02:04 |
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| 22 | Io son un pellegrin Giovanni da Florentia |
02:41 |
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| HAVPCD243 – The trumpet shall be heard on high Trumpets and organ from Guildford Cathedral |
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| Summary – A chronological programme of arrangements and original pieces for trumpet, beginning with military signals from the Middle Ages and ending with John Gardner’s Sonata da Chiesa of 1976, and using several different trumpets. The trumpet calls [tracks 1 and 5] are played on straight post horns in C, and the Krakow Fanfare [3] and Monteverdi Toccata [10] on natural trumpets in C. the Thomsen Toccata [9] uses Venitian coronation trumpets, and the second movement of the Gervaise dances [7] is played on flugel horns. All the other works are played on various modern instruments. | |||
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| 18 | Queen of the Night Aria from ‘The Magic Flute’ W. A. Mozart, arr. Mackie |
03:11 |
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| HAVPCD244 – Elizabeth Gambarini Complete works for harpsichord |
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| Summary – The London-born Elizabeth Gambarini presents, viewed retrospectively, a brief but none the less interesting foretaste of an 18th-century British phenomenon: the educated lady of good family achieving a significant reputation in a field not at this time usually associated with one of her sex. Despite a relatively short life, she pursued an active and successful musical career, and gains historical importance as the first woman to publish keyboard music in Britain. Of the many lesser figures working in London’s 18th-century music life, Gambarini stands out as someone forging new ways. As a member of an immigrant family she established herself as a Londoner, as a woman in a man’s world she acquired the status of a professional musician rather than that of a mere singer, and as a composer of keyboard music she espoused and mastered the galant style that presages the popular musical idioms of the ensuing decades. | |||
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| 1 | Six Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord Sonata I [in G Major] 1. Allegretto |
02:58 |
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| 3 | 3. Giga: Allegro | 01:36 |
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| 8 | 3. Minuet | 00:43 |
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| 22 | Miss Gambarini’s Minuet | 01:49 |
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| 30 | Tambourin | 00:56 |
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| HAVPCD245 – TV ES PETRVS Gregorian Chant from the Vatican |
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| Summary – The best and most succinct account of the life of St Peter is that of David Hugh Farmer in the Oxford Book of Saints (OUP, 1978). In his summary of what we know of Peter from the New Testament, he begins: ‘He was called Simon, a native of Bethesaida, near the Sea of Galilee, and a brother of Andrew, who introduced him to Christ, who gave him the name of Cephas (Peter) which means rock.’ Farmer concludes his account by remarking: ‘From very early times Peter was invoked as a universal saint, as the heavenly door-keeper, as the patron of the Church and the papacy, as one who was both powerful and accessible.’ | |||
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| 1 | Tu es Petrus/O Roma nobilis | 02:02 |
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| 2 | Dominus secus mare | 02:53 |
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| 7 | Tu capud ecclesie Anon. |
01:21 |
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| 17 | Surge Petre | 02:47 |
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| 18 | Hodie illuxit nobis | 02:10 |
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| 20 | Tu es Petrus Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina |
03:42 |
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| HAVPCD246 – Two of a Kind Organs ancient and modern at Gloucester Cathedral |
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| Summary – The Rodgers 960 Classical Organ was one of two Rodgers organs installed in Gloucester Cathedral while the pipe organ was out of action for most of 1999 during its restoration. Because the Chancel is separated from the nave by a screen on which the pipe organ and console are sited, two instruments were installed: a large two-manual in the Nave for congregational services and the 960 in the Chancel to accompany the daily Offices. | |||
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| 8 | Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV565 J. S. Bach |
13:59 |
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| HAVPCD251 – Trumpets Ancient & Modern Trumpets and organ from Winchester Cathedral |
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| Summary – Crispian Steele-Perkins, who has been described as ‘the world’s leading player on baroque trumpet’, is also renowned for concerto and solo appearances on stage and screen. During his early career he was a symphonic trumpeter and active studio musician with the Sadlers Wells (now English National) Opera and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. His playing reaches millions in the musical soundtracks of films such as A Bridge Too Far, Batman, Ghandi, Jaws and James Bond, and with his signature tunes of television programmes like Dispatches and The Antiques Roadshow. He has always enjoyed giving recitals of music for trumpet and organ, using many of his own arrangements (as on this recording) to show the capabilities of instruments played in former centuries. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 12 | Three Pieces 1. The Carman’s Whistle William Byrd |
00:53 |
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| 16 | Divertimento 1. Theme and Variations Joseph Haydn |
03:43 |
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| 21 | Pieces from a Suite for Wind Intrsruments 1. Sybelle Jeremiah Clarke |
01:03 |
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| HAVPCD252 – The Song the Virgine Soong Christmas Music from Tudor England |
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| Summary – During the reigns of the first two Tudor kings – Henry VII and Henry VIII – the feast of Christmas was celebrated with music in a remarkable range of styles and forms. At one extreme was strictly liturgical polyphony: a festive adornment of the Mass or the services of Matins and Vespers, and setting texts from those services that would otherwise have been sung to plainchant… Beyond the genre of festal polyphony with Latin text, there flourished before the Reformation the ‘carol’ with text in English or a mixture of English and Latin. These pieces consisted of verses preceded by and alternating with a ‘burden’ or refrain. Although carol texts encompass a variety of subjects (including, for example, the Passion), most are concerned principally with Christmas and/or the Virgin. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 2 | Nowell: Dieus wous garde Richard Smert |
04:06 |
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| 3 | Videte miraculum Thomas Tallis |
09:25 |
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| 8 | Gloria from Missa ‘Puer natus es nobis’ Thomas Tallis |
09:03 |
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| HAVPCD253 – Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus Music in the Liturgy of Advent |
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| Summary – The Community Church at Mirfield has had a profound influence on the way in which the liturgy is celebrated there. Spacious, resonant yet intimate, it has been a powerful laboratory of the Spirit for generations. This recording seeks to capture something of what it means to search out the things of God in the changing round of the liturgy as it is experienced by the monastic community, the students of the College, and the many visitors. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 13 | Motet: Hodie apparuit Orlandus Lassus |
01:14 |
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| 21 | Reading: Philippians 4: 4-8 | 01:01 |
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| 25 | Salve Regina | 02:50 |
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| HAVPCD256 – Totus Tuus sum, Maria Music in honour of Our Lady |
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| Summary – Down the centuries, the Virgin Mary has inspired a depth of devotion which, in its turn, has produced a huge range of liturgical text, poetry, and music, much of it intended for the cycle of great feasts in her honour throughout the year. Most important are the celebration of her own conception without sin at the feast of the Immaculate Conception (8 December), the announcement of the Angel Gabriel that in her virginity she had conceived the Son of God at the feast of the Annunciation (25 March), the birth of her Redeemer Son at Christmas (25 December), her own role as Mother of God (1 January – a modern feast), and her Assumption into Heaven (15 August). At other times, especially at Holy Week and Easter, her presence is more shadowy, though still gently pervasive. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 4 | Magnificat for double choir (Tone 8) Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia |
05:17 |
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| 12 | Regina cæli Gregorian chant |
00:45 |
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| HAVPCD265 – The Nicholson organs in Portsmouth Cathedral Transcriptions of orchestral music |
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| Summary – The organ has always lent itself to the playing of all forms of orchestral music in transcription. This recording shows the variety and range of orchestral colours available on the two Nicholson organs in Portsmouth Cathedral. Almost all the music is chosen from the turn of the 19th century into the early 20th, though the programme opens with two works from the baroque era. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 4 | 3. The Peace | 02:46 |
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| 7 | Chanson de Matin, Op.15 No. 2 Edward Elgar, arr. H. Brewer |
02:32 |
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| 12 | Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 Samuel Barber |
08:54 |
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| HAVPCD284 – Resurrexit The complete Easter Sunday Mass from Westminster Cathedral |
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| Summary – At Westminster Cathedral, the Mass of Easter Sunday is celebrated with solemn and incomparable ceremony, as is fitting on this most sacred feast. Into a packed Cathedral process the clergy and choir, preceded by candles and incense as the Easter Introit ‘Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sunt’ is chanted … | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 1 | Organ: Improvisation on the Introit played by Martin Baker |
02:20 |
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| 2 | Introit: Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum | 01:23 |
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| 4 | Gloria (from Mass in D) Antonìn Dvorák |
08:12 |
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| 21 | Te Deum Improvisations by Martin Baker |
05:42 |
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| HAVPCD305 – THOMAS TALLIS : Latin and English motets and anthems | |||
| Summary – 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. | |||
| Trk. | Title | Duration | Sample Audio |
| 1 | Sancte Deus Thomas Tallis |
06:22 |
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| 6 | If ye love me Thomas Tallis |
01:49 |
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| 10 | O nata lux Thomas Tallis |
01:30 |
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| 18 | Nunc dimitiis (Dorian) Thomas Tallis |
01:47 |
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