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ID: DCD34019 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection Subcollection: Choral and OrganFor 32 years the Abbey School Choir sang daily evensong in Tewkesbury Abbey and one of their final services was captured for posterity by Delphian. In this recording swansong, the choir offers a treasurable memento of a uniquely English Office; complete with lessons and prayers, this sumptuous tapestry of Anglican jewels also includes the first recording of Gabriel Jackson’s refulgent new setting of the Evening Canticles. Reborn as Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, the choir was immediately signed by Delphian and has embarked on a series of much-lauded recordings.
Alcock, W G:
Psalm 91 'Whoso dwelleth under the defence of the Most High'
Howells:
Pieces (6): Master Tallis's Testament
Collegium Regale: Te Deum
Jackson, Gabriel:
Tewkesbury Service: Magnificat - premiere recording
Second Lesson (1 Corinthians 13)
Tewkesbury Service: Nunc Dimittis - premiere recording
Creed
Peterson, M:
Psalm 131
First Lesson (Isaiah 6: 1-8)
Statham, H:
Preces
Responses and Collects
Tallis:
Sancte Deus
Vaughan Williams:
Valiant for Truth
The day thou gavest (St Clement)
Vierne, L:
Toccata in B flat minor
Carleton Etherington (organ)
The Abbey School Choir, Tewkesbury, Benjamin Nicholas (director) |
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ID: DCD34047 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Christmas Music In the vast, echoing space of their Mediaeval home the boys and men of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum celebrate the awe and mystery of Christmas, ushering in the birth of the Christchild with a sequence of carols from the last two centuries that combines familiar names with offerings from some of today's foremost composers.
Track listing
1. The Magi *
Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962)
2. Lux Aurumque
Eric Whitacre (b. 1970)
3. Lullay, dear Jesus
Arnold Bax (1883-1953)
4. The Word Made Flesh
Philip Wilby (b. 1949)
5. The Kings
Peter Cornelius (1869-1953)
6. The Virgin’s Slumber Song
Max Reger (1873-1916)
7. Welcome, Yule!
C. Hubert H. Parry (1848-1918)
8. There is no rose of such virtue
John Joubert (b. 1927)
9. Quem pastores laudavere
James Bassi (b. 1961)
10. La Nativité
Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
11. O, my deir hert (Cradle Song)
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
12. I wonder as I wander
Carl Rütti (b. 1949)
13. Thou whose birth *
Gabriel Jackson
14. When Christ was born of Mary free *
C. Hubert H. Parry
15. The Three Kings
Jonathan Dove (b. 1959)
16. God is with us (A Christmas Proclamation)
John Tavener (b. 1944)
17. Vom Himmel Hoch (Toccata-Prelude IV)
Garth Edmondson (1900-1971)
Total playing time: [66:02]
* world premiere recordings |
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ID: DCD34070 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Thomas Weelkes is remembered as one of the outstanding English composers of the 17th century. This survey of Weelkes' services, verse anthems and sacred madrigals features first recordings of several works in new reconstructions by scholar Peter James. Benjamin Nicholas' Tewkesbury choir delivers telling performances passionately conveying the range, imagination and technical accomplishment of Weelkes' settings.
Weelkes:
O Jonathan
Rejoice in the Lord
Te Deum & Jubilate (Eighth Service)
O how amiable are thy dwellings
Christ rising again
When David Heard
Laboravi in gemitu meo
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis (Third Service 'in F fa ut')
O vos omnes
Lord, to Thee I make my moan, anthem for 5 voices
Give ear, O Lord
All people clap your hands
Hosanna to the Son of David
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas & Carleton Etherington |
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ID: DCD34072 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: ChoirFounded as recently as 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. On this, their debut recording, the choir’s two directors helm a diverse programme that reflects the range and reach of the choir’s daily repertoire. Bookended by two pieces titled In the Beginning Gabriel Jackson’s ravishing version of the rarely-set Johannine Prologue, Copland’s glowing account of the first seven days of creation - this disc offers a themed sequence of Renaissance and modern classics, all captured in sumptuous sound in the radiant acoustics of Merton’s famous chapel.
Copland:
In the Beginning
Gombert:
Lugebat David Absalon 8vv
Holst:
Nunc dimittis, H127
Jackson, Gabriel:
In the Beginning was the Word
Lukaszewski:
Nunc dimittis
Palestrina:
Nunc dimittis
Weelkes:
When David Heard
Whitacre:
When David Heard
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (conductors) |
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ID: DCD34097 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Choral and OrganThis ‘songbook’ is unique to the Schola Cantorum choristers of Tewkesbury Abbey. “Essentially, it's a showcase for the Abbey trebles,” their Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas explains. “We’ve been assembling our own Songbook for quite a while now - the songs the trebles sing, from time to time, in boys-only concerts, and that they are taught in individual singing lessons. I’ve always been keen to build each boy up as a soloist, not necessarily with the express idea of them singing lots of solos, but so that they can learn to sing in a soloistic way.”
This is evident most of all in the distinctive singing of 11- year-old Laurence Kilsby, whose gifts won him the BBC Chorister of the Year competition in 2009. On this recording, he features as soloist in two Shelley settings by Roger Quilter, the Bach/Gounod Ave Maria and in John Ireland’s beautiful, sincerely-felt Passiontide motet Ex Ore Innocentium from 1944.
Laurence Kilsby (treble), Helen Porter (piano), Carleton Etherington (organ)
The trebles of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
Track listing
1 Music, When Soft Voices Die
Roger Quilter
2 Vater Unser
Arvo Pärt
3 Fairest Isle (Address To Britain)
Henry Purcell
4 Love’s Philosophy
Quilter
5 The Land Of Spices
Gabriel Jackson
6 Whispers
Howard Skempton
7 O Salutaris Hostia
Léo Delibes
8 Ex Ore Innocentium
John Ireland
9 The Flower
Philip Wilby
10 A Song At Evening
Richard Rodney Bennett
11 Ave Maria
J.S. Bach / Charles Gounod
12 Nymphs And Shepherds
Purcell
13 Dutch Carol
James MacMillan
14 I Will Give My Love An Apple
trad., arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
15 Linden Lea
Vaughan Williams
16 Dirge For Fidele
Vaughan Williams
17 Somewhere
Leonard Bernstein
18 Sure On This Shining Night
Samuel Barber
19 At The River
Robert Lowry, arr. Aaron Copland
20 The Lord’s Prayer
John Tavener, arr. Barry Rose
21 Wedding Introit
MacMillan
22 I Sing Of A Maiden
Patrick Hadley
23 Skye Boat Song
trad., arr. Percy Grainger
24 How Can I Keep From Singing?
Lowry, arr. John Scott
Total playing time [66:42] |
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ID: DCD34102 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum
Charivari Agréable
Laurence Kilsby treble
Jeremy Kenyon alto
Christopher Watson tenor
Christopher Borrett bass
Benjamin Nicholas director
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum and Charivari Agréable come together for the first time in vividly communicative interpretations of three of Mozart’s sacred masterpieces. The forces are very much as Mozart intended - a period orchestra, an all-male chorus and soloists (including 2009 BBC Chorister of the Year Laurence Kilsby) drawn from the choir. Under Benjamin Nicholas’s spirited direction these performances bristle with energy and the invigorating freshness of youth.
Track listing
‘Coronation’ Mass in C K317
1 Kyrie
2 Gloria
3 Credo
4 Sanctus
5 Benedictus
6 Agnus Dei
7 Ave verum corpus K618
Vesperae solennes de Confessore K339
8 Dixit Dominus
9 Confitebor
10 Beatus vir
11 Laudate pueri
12 Laudate Dominum
13 Magnificat
Total playing time [54:59] |
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ID: DCD34107 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Sacred Music Subcollection: Choral and OrganTewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum
Carleton Etherington organ
Benjamin Nicholas director
For his final recording with the men and boys of Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas has chosen to celebrate Britain’s best-loved living composer, John Rutter. Rather than simply sticking to familiar classics, this programme explores the full range of the composer’s output from The Lord is my shepherd and Lord, thou hast been our refuge to his most recent piece This is the day, written for the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Rutter’s rare communicative gifts are given a special glow by the refulgent acoustic of Tewkesbury Abbey and the choir’s luminous singing.
Track listing
1 Lord, thou hast been our refuge
2 Dormi, Jesu
3 This is the day
4 Carol of the Magi
5 As the bridegroom to his chosen
6 The Lord is my shepherd
7 Ave Maria
8 The Lord bless you and keep you
9 A Prayer of Saint Patrick
10 Hymn to the Creator of Light
11 Wells Jubilate
12 God be in my head
13 The Gift of Charity
14 There is a flower
15 A Choral Amen
Total playing time [70:10] |
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ID: DCD34122 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Christmas Music Subcollection: OrganChoir of Merton College, Oxford
Peter Phillips & Benjamin Nicholas conductors
Anna Steppler organ
The beginning of Advent is celebrated with a particular solemnity at Merton. For its second recording the college choir explores the musical riches that adorn this most special time in the church’s year, centring on a newly commissioned sequence of Magnificat antiphons from seven leading composers.
Founded in 2008, the new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is led by newly appointed Organist and fulltime Director of Music Benjamin Nicholas, and Reed Rubin Director of Music Peter Philips. The choir is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. The disc is recorded in the beautiful environs of Merton College Chapel, which has stood at the heart of the College as a place of worship for almost 750 years.
Track listing
1. Ecce concipies -Matthew Martin
2. Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
arr. David Blackwell
3. Rorate caeli desuper -William Byrd
4. Advent Antiphon - James MacMillan
5. Drop down, ye heavens, from above -Judith Weir
6. Alvus tumescit virginis - Michael Praetorius
Seven Advent Antiphons
commissioned by the Chaplain of Merton College
7. O Sapientia - Howard Skempton
8. O Adonai - John Tavener
9. O Radix Jesse - Rihards Dubra
10. O Clavis David - Gabriel Jackson
11. O Oriens - Cecilia McDowall
12. O Rex Gentium -Matthew Martin
13. O Emmanuel - E-riks Ešenvalds
14. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen -Anton Heiller
15. Ecce Virgo concipiet - William Byrd
16. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen - Michael Praetorius
arr. Jan Sandström
17. Ave Maria - Tomás Luis de Victoria |
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ID: SIGCD068 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection Subcollection: ChoirNow and again a choir director finds he has an exceptional voice at his disposal. Andrew Swait was only ten years old when this disc was made - his voice was the original inspiration for the disc - and it features his outstandingly colourful tone quality and musicianship. In choosing the repertoire, we kept in mind the integrity of the great English church music tradition. We decided to do what choirs - their men and boys - do best in this country; sing, enjoy and relish the music of that tradition. Solo arias are interspersed with full choir numbers, some featuring treble solos and duets. Works by Schubert and Rachmaninoff are coupled with works from our own English masters, Sir Hubert Parry and John Rutter. Morten Lauridsen’s setting of Ubi caritas, combines a lushness of texture with the age-old plainsong melody. We hope you will enjoy this collection from Tewkesbury.
Benjamin Nicholas |
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