David Hill leads the Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge in performances of two contemporaneous masses by Belgian composers. Joseph Jongen wrote five movements of his Messe en l'honneur du Saint-Sacrement, with brass and organ accompaniment, in thanksgiving for his son's release from Buchenwald in 1945, and added a Credo in 1948. Flor Peeters ...
Cathedrals around England have their own choirs with their own traditions, and this disc presents some characteristic work from one of the lesser-known among them, the Lincoln Cathedral Choir. It differs from the general run of English choral discs in several respects. First, the cathedral is dedicated to the worship of the Virgin Mary, and music ...
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, is one of the world's most venerable musical institutions (it was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI) and one of its most beloved. Made up of Cambridge undergraduates and boys from the University school, it can be counted on for performances characterized by tonal purity, perfect enunciation, beautiful ...
It's appropriate that this disc of sacred Belgian choral music (and organ solos) includes, as its central track, Franck's Panis Angelicus, even though Franck was French through and through. Joseph Jongen (1873-1973) and Flor Peeters (1903-1986) are clearly musical descendants of Franck's and there are moments in Jongen's music, particularly the ...
A collection of medieval, late Romantic, and modern anthems for choir and organ, Immortal Fire: Music for Female Saints is most likely to appeal to those with serious devotional or practical interests in church music; this is not just background music for "chilling-out," à la Chant or similar albums. Though the reverent tone of most of the works ...
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