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A Sequence of Music and Readings for Remembrance
The Proteus Ensemble
directed by Stephen Shellard
20 in stock
Description
The first recording from the professional vocal group, The Proteus Ensemble, directed by Stephen Shellard.
A beautiful and moving selection of music and readings for the commemoration of 1914, recorded in Worcester Cathedral.
Track List
Reading: Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, Verses 1–8
1:31Organ: Elegy — Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
3:22 Reading: To His Love — Ivor Gurney
0:52 Messe pour Notre-Dame Kyrie — David Briggs
5:21Exhortation (They shall grow not old) — John Tavener
3:20Reading: Still falls the Rain — Dame Edith Louise Sitwell
2:31And I saw a new Heaven — Edgar Bainton
5:44Reading: Not to Keep — Robert Frost
1:55Quam dilecta! — Donald Hunt
4:40Reading: Everyone Sang— Siegfried Sassoon
0:42Messe pour Notre-Dame Sanctus — Briggs
3:12Messe pour Notre-Dame Benedictus — Briggs
3:31Organ: Méditation — Maurice Duruflé
3:54Kohima (When you go home) — Tavener
1:45Reading: The Veteran — Margaret P Cole
0:55Messe pour Notre-Dame Agnus Dei — Briggs
6:06Serenity — James MacMillan
4:52Reading: May 1915 — Charlotte Mew
0:59Jesu, dulcis memoria — Pierre Villette
3:47Reading: For the Fallen — Laurence Binyon
0:21O Lord, support us — Briggs
6:49Total Playing time: 66:15
Production credits
Recorded in Worcester Cathedral (musical items) on 29/30 October 2013, and The Elgar Music School (readings) on 4 November 2013
Recording producer and engineer: Gary Cole
Sample audio extracts
Reviews
‘No doubt 2014 will bring a flood of tributes and memorials to what happened a century ago but I doubt that there will be many better than this one. ‘ Cross Rhythms August 2014