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King’s College Choir/David Willcocks: The Complete Argo Recordings | Decca 4788918

King’s College Choir/David Willcocks: The Complete Argo Recordings

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4788918

Barcode: 0028947889182

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 29

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 23rd October 2015

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Contents

Artists

Roy Goodman (treble)
Peter Pears
David Ward
Elizabeth Harwood
Lindsay Heather
Alexander Young
Brian Etheridge
Hervey Alan
Helen Watts
Sylvia Stahlman
Wilfred Brown
Tom Krause
Simon Preston
London Symphony Orchestra
Philomusica of London
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Conductors

David Willcocks
Boris Ord

Artists

Roy Goodman (treble)
Peter Pears
David Ward
Elizabeth Harwood
Lindsay Heather
Alexander Young
Brian Etheridge
Hervey Alan
Helen Watts
Sylvia Stahlman
Wilfred Brown
Tom Krause
Simon Preston
London Symphony Orchestra
Philomusica of London
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Conductors

David Willcocks
Boris Ord

About

King’s College Choir are the most famous choir in the world. This set of the complete Argo recordings celebrates David Willcocks’ tenure from 1957-1973 and includes some of the most beautiful choral music sung with the choir’s trademark richness and purity of sound.

Included are many of the choral greats – Bach’s St John Passion, Tallis’ Spem in Alium, Haydn’s Nelson Mass, and Roy Goodman in the most famous recording of Allegri’s Miserere - all in the glorious acoustics of King’s College Chapel.

Six of these albums are released on CD for the first time – David Willcocks’ 1964 Festival of Lessons & Carols and Tye Masses and four albums from Boris Ord, David Willcocks’ predecessor. Willcocks’ St John Passion is also released on CD internationally for the first time (it was previously released in the UK only).

Notes are by John Rutter (fellow arranger of Christmas Carols with Willcocks), Roy Goodman (treble in Allegri’s Miserere), Francis Warner (choral scholar under Boris Ord), Simon Eadon (Decca Engineer) and Ronald Corp (composer, conductor and choral specialist).

Contents:
CD 1
 
GIBBONS: The First Song of Moses; Second Preces and Proper Psalm for Whitsunday; Voluntary I; Te Deum; Voluntary II; Jubilate; This is the Record of John; See, See, The Word is Incarnate; Glorious and Powerful God

CD 2 
A Festival of Lessons & Carols (1958)

Once in Royal David’s City; BACH: And There Were Shepherds In The Same Country, Abiding In The Field; ORD: Adam Lay Ybounden; I Saw Three Ships; Gabriel’s Message; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Sussex Carol; In Dulci Jubilo; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched; O Come All Ye Faithful; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; Rejoice And Be Merry; Away in a Manger; While Shepherds Watched; Sussex Carol; Rocking Carol; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

CD 3
BYRD: Mass for Five Voices; Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis; Ave Verum Corpus

CD 4
J S BACH: Jesu Priceless Treasure BWV 227; O Jesu So Meek BWV 493; Jesus is this Dark World’s Light BWV 474; Lord Pour Not Thy Vengeance BWV 463; Now is the Mournful Time BWV 450; It is Finished BWV 458; Breath of God BWV 445; God Liveth Still BWV 461 HYMNS: There is a Green Hill Far Away; According to thy Gracious Word; Drop Drop Slow Tears; When I Survey the Wondrous Cross; Glory Be To Jesus; Abide With Me; The Day Though Gavest, Lord, Is Ended; FILITZ: Holy Father Cheer Our Way; TALLIS: Glory to Thee My God This Night

CD 5 
Procession with Carols

BRAHMS: Es ist ein Ros, entsprungen; PALESTRINA: I Look From Afar; PRAETORIUS: Veni, Redemtor gentium; ‘Twas In The Year That King Uzziah Died; Hark!  A Thrilling Voice Is Sounding; HOWELLS: A Spotless Rose; HADLEY: I Sing of a Maiden; RAVENSCROFT: Remember, O Thou Man; COFFIN: On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry; The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came; NICOLAI: Wachet Auf!; King Jesus Hath a Garden; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Blessed Son of God; O Come, O Come Emmanuel; The Holly and the Ivy; The Cherry Tree Carol; Unto Us Is Born A Son; The First Nowell; Past Three O’Clock

CD 6
TAVERNER: Leroy Kyrie; Western Wind Mass; Dum transisset Sabbatum; Christe Jesu pastor bone; Mater Christi; CROFT: The Burial Service

CD 7-8 
J S BACH: St John Passion

Sir Peter Pears; David Ward; Elizabeth Harwood; Lindsay Heather; Alexander Young; Brian Etheridge; Hervey Alan; Helen Watts; Philomusica of London / Sir David Willcocks
 
CD 9 
HAYDN: Nelson Mass

Sylvia Stahlman; Helen Watts; Wilfred Brown; Tom Krause; Simon Preston; London Symphony Orchestra; David Willcocks

CD 10 
On Christmas Night

O Come All Ye Faithful; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Blessed Be That Maid Mary; Lute-book Lullaby; Ding Dong! Merrily on High; Myn Lyking; Personent Hodie; See Amid The Winter’s Snow; In The Bleak Midwinter; Coventry Carol; Shepherds in the Field Abiding; The Infant King; King Jesus Hath A Garden; Christ Was Born on Christmas Day JOUBERT: Torches; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on Christmas Carols (with Hervey Alan & LSO); WARLOCK: Balulalow; TCHAIKOVSKY: Legenda (The Crown of Roses)

CD 11 
BYRD: Mass in 3 parts; Mass in 4 parts

CD 12 
Evensong for Ash Wednesday (1963)

FARRANT: Hide Not Thou Thy Face From Us, O Lord; Sentences; BYRD: Preces and Responses; CAMIDGE, PRING; Psalm 143; Psalm 130; Hear Us, O Lord, Have Mercy Upon Us; CAUSTUN: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; The Apostles Creed; BYRD: The Lesser Litany; The Lord’s Prayer; BYRD: Versicles and Responses; Collects; PURCELL: Hear my Prayer; ALLEGRI: Miserere (with Roy Goodman)

CD 13 
HANDEL: Coronation Anthems

Zadok the Priest; My Heart is Inditing; Let They Hand Be Strengthened; The King Shall Rejoice

CD 14 
PALESTRINA: Stabat Mater; Hodie Beata Virgo; Senex Puerum Portabat; Magnificat Primi Toni; Litaniae de Beata Virgine Maria

CD 15 
Festival of Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve 1964

Once in Royal David’s City; Corde Natus Ex Parentis; MATHIAS: Wassail Carol; WISHART: Alleluya, A New Work is Come on Hand; There Is No Rose of Such Virtu; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly; HOLST: Lullay My Liking; FRICKER: A Babe is Born; MENDELSSOHN: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; PETTMAN: O Babe Divine; O Come All Ye Faithful

CD 16 
TALLIS: In Manus Tuas; In Ieiunio et Fletu; Spem in Alium; Te Lucis ante Terminum; Ecce Tempus Idoneum; Veni Redemptor Gentium; O Nata Lux; Salvator Mundi; Derelinguat Impius

CD 17 
TALLIS: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Videte Miraculum; Organ Lesson; Sancte Deus

CD 18 
HANDEL: Chandos Anthems I

O Praise the Lord With One Consent; Let God Arise

CD 19 
VIVALDI: Gloria; PERGOLESI: Magnificat

CD 20 
HOWELLS: Te Deum; Jubilate; 'Lo The Poor Crieth'; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis [‘Collegium Regale’]; Motet on the Death of President Kennedy; 'Here is the Little Door'; 'Sing Lullaby'; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis [St Paul’s Service]; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Three Shakespeare Songs; The Turtle Dove (with Lindsay Heather); Two Elizabethan Part Songs; BRITTEN: Voices for Today

CD 21 
HANDEL: Chandos Anthems II

The Lord is My Light; As Pants the Hart

CD 22 
HANDEL: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day

CD 23 Masses
TYE: Mass – 'Euge Bone'; Mass – 'Western Wind'

CD 24 
HANDEL: Chandos Anthems III

I Will Magnify Thee, O God; In the Lord I Put My Trust

CD 25 
BLOW: Coronation Anthems
I was Glad; God Spake Sometimes in Visions; Cry Aloud and Spare Not; O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song; Blessed is the Man That Hath Not Walked (with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields)

CD 26 
A Festival of Lessons & Carols 1954 (Ord)
Once In Royal David’s City; J S BACH: And There Were Shepherds; Ding Dong, Ding; Flos de Radice Jesse; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; In Dulci Jubilo; Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary; A Virgin Most Pure; While Shepherds Watched; The Shepherd’s Cradle Song; CORNELIUS: The Three Kings; The Infant King; O Come All Ye Faithful

CD 27 
GIBBONS: Anthems & Voluntaries (Ord)
Veni Creator; First Preces; Psalm 145; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; O God, The King of Glory; Almighty and Everlasting God; O Lord In Thy Wrath Rebuke Me Not; Hosannah To The Song of David; O Lord Increase My Faith; O Clap Your Hands; God IS Gone Up

CD 28 
Evensong (Ord)
BATTEN: O Praise the Lord; SMITH: Responses; Psalm 126; Psalm 127; Psalm 128; Psalm 129; STANFORD: Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis; HADLEY: My Beloved Spake; NAYLOR: Prayers & Responses; JACKSON: Toccata in B Minor

CD 29 
An Easter Mattins (Ord)

This Joyful Eastertide; TOMKINS: Preces; HOWELLS: Te Deum; Jubilate; TOMKINS: Responses; STONE: Our Father; BYRD: Haec Dies Motet; GAUNTLETT: Jesus Lives, No Longer Now Can Thy Terrors, Death, Appal Us

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