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The Beauty of Holiness-Music for the Epiphany

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Catalogue Number: HAVPCD412
Category: Choral music.
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Music for the Epiphany
The Choir of Worcester College
Directed by Thomas Allery

Release Date: November 2019

Much of the music in this album has been performed as part of the Worcester College Epiphany Festival, an annual weekend of services and concerts in January when friends and neighbours of the College are particularly invited to visit. For details of the Epiphany Festival, please visit
www.worcesterchapel.org.

Notes on the music
This album celebrates the musical heritage of the Christian feast of the Epiphany, the revelation of the infant Christ to the world. Like the feast itself, the music is traditionally centred on the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem and the star that led them to the Holy Family.

This recording opens with the rousing hymn O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, by the prolific hymn-writer the Revd John Samuel Bewley Monsell (d.1875), taking inspiration from Psalm 96 and the gifts of the Magi. It was written in 1863, one year before the re-decoration of Worcester College Chapel. The tune comes from the Choralbuch von Johann Heinrich Reinhardt, an eighteenth century German manuscript, and was set to Monsell’s poem by the compilers of the English Hymnal.

Whilst O worship the Lord now seems very traditional, it is interesting to note how recently it has entered the choral repertoire.

TRACK DURATION TITLE
1 3.12 O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness Choralbuch von Johann Heinrich Reinhardt
2 8.03 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (BuxWV 223) Dietrich Buxtehude
3 2.28 New Year Carol Benjamin Britten
4 2.25 Prélude sur l’Introit de l’Épiphanie Maurice Duruflé
5 2.48 Introit (Ecce venit dominator Dominus) Plain Chant
6 2.01 Gradual (Omnes de Saba) Plain Chant
7 1.51 Alleluia (Vidimus stellam) Plain Chant
8 1.33 Offertory (Reges Tharsis) Plain Chant
9 0.40 Communion (Vidimus stellam) Plain Chant
10 2.24 No small wonder Paul Edwards
11 8.13 La nativité from Trois poèmes évangéliques Jean Langlais
12 2.27 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning Joseph F Thrupp
13 2.16 O Lord, how manifold are thy works Thomas Tomkins
14 3.11 The Holy Boy John Ireland
15 2.28 Away in a manger William J. Fitzpatrick
16 2.46 Noël from Esquisses Byzantines Henri Mulet
17 1.35 Natus est nobis Jacob Handl
18 3.11 Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Played by Alex Wilson) Johann Pachelbel
19 1.41 Pueri concinite Jacob Handl
20 2.02 Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht Gunther Martin Göttsche
21 2.52 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning Eric Thiman
22 4.31 Marche des Rois Mages François-Clément Théodore Dubois
23 1.42 Omnes de Saba Giammateo Asola
24 4.25 Canzone Francese Seconda Giovanni Salvatore
25 3.07 As with gladness men of old W. H. Monk

Additional information

Recorded

2019

Location

Worcester College Oxford

Tracks

25

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