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Hereford Cathedral Choir
Peter Dyke organ, Geraint Bowen director
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Description
Join the Choir of Hereford Cathedral as they celebrate Easter Sunday!
This recording showcases the range of music typically sung in Hereford Cathedral during the three main services on this major day in the church’s year. We have all the music for Matins, including Responses and Psalms. The Canticles and Anthem focus on Charles Villiers Stanford with the Te Deum and Jubilate in C, and the exuberant Easter favourite ‘Ye choirs of new Jerusalem’.
The Eucharist features English polyphonic works in Latin for Easter from William Byrd and John Tavener, together with Jean Langlais’ massive ‘Messe solennelle’.
As befitting this major Festival, Evensong features Herbert Howells’ largest-scale setting of the Evening Canticles – the St Paul’s Service – and the disc concludes with another Easter favourite: ‘Blessed be the God and Father’, with its beautiful treble solo ‘Love one another‘ written by Samuel Sebastian Wesley while he was organist of Hereford Cathedral.
Track List
MATINS
Introit This joyful Eastertide — Dutch traditional arr. Charles Wood
2:13 Preces — John Sanders
1:10 Easter Anthems — Chant: Edwin Monk
2:25Psalm 114 — Chant: Tonus Peregrinus
2:22Te Deum in C — Charles Villiers Stanford
7:20Jubilate in C — Charles Villiers Stanford
3:23 Responses — John Sanders
6:17 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem — Charles Villiers Stanford
4:59EUCHARIST
Introit In resurrectione tua — William Byrd
1:40Messe solennelle — Jean Langlais
Kyrie
4:28 Gloria
5:12 Sanctus
1:38 Benedictus
2:37 Agnus Dei
4:52Dum transisset I — John Taverner
7:46 EVENSONG
St Paul’s Service — Herbert Howells
Magnificat
6:31 Nunc dimittis
4:59 Blessed be the God and Father — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
7:23Total Playing time: 77:20
Production credits
Recorded on 27–29 April 2015 in Hereford Cathedral by permission of the Chapter
Recording producer and engineer: Gary Cole
Editors: Steve Swinden, Gary Cole
Sample audio extracts
Reviews
‘there is a great deal to enjoy and appreciate’
Cross Rhythms February 2016 – 9/10
‘Breaking all Lenten rules and listening to Hereford Cathedral’s @perpetualTrust’s no- holds-barred Easter Day disc @regentrecords Get it!’ @Gavinplumley on Twitter
Previous CDs on Regent
“If you like the chaste beauty of the English cathedral tradition, as I do, you will warm to this recital in the atmospheric acoustic of Hereford Cathedral.” Financial Times, 1 August 2009
“…a glowing recording by this fine choir, which features an impressive set of trebles” The Observer, 23August 2009
“Hereford Cathedral Choir’s Christmas from Hereford offers an engagingly rounded, friendly sound and committed energy (especially form the boys), along with excellent organ accompaniment.” Gramophone, December 2012