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Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral | Hyperion CDA67522

Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67522

Barcode: 0034571175225

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 2nd October 2006

Contents

Artists

Westminster Cathedral Choir
Matthew Martin (organ)

Conductor

Martin Baker

Artists

Westminster Cathedral Choir
Matthew Martin (organ)

Conductor

Martin Baker

About

This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in
Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.
 
The chant on this disc is the golden thread which runs throughout the entire liturgy giving the Office a natural rhythm
and inevitability as well as clarity of text and beautiful language; it is complemented here by motets and canticles by
Thomas Tallis, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Heinrich Schütz, while Jean Langlais’s massive Fête for organ concludes the
service.
 
The only cathedral choir in the world to sing Mass and Vespers liturgically every day, The Choir of Westminster
Cathedral is perfectly placed to offer to the armchair listener this CD encapsulation of their very lifeblood, recorded here in the opulent acoustic of their own cathedral.
 
Track Listing:
1 Introit Gaude et laetare (Sweelinck)
2 Introduction to the office Deus in adiutorium
3 Antiphon Rex pacificus
4 Psalm Dixit Dominus
5 Antiphon repeat
6 Organ improvisation
7 Antiphon Magnificatus est
8 Psalm Confitebor tibi
9 Antiphon repeat 
10 Organ improvisation
11 Antiphon Completi sunt 
12 Psalm Beatus vir 
13 Antiphon repeat 
14 Organ improvisation
15 Antiphon Scitote 
16 Psalm Laudate pueri 
17 Antiphon repeat 
18 Organ improvisation
19 Antiphon Levate 
20 Psalm Laudate Dominum 
21 Antiphon repeat 
22 Organ improvisation
23 Chapter Apparuit benignitas 
24 Responsorium breve
25 Hymn Christe redemptor omnium 
26 Versicle Crastina die
27 Magnificat Antiphon Cum ortus fuerit
28 Magnificat à 5 (Tallis)
29 Antiphon repeat
30 Tonus Orationis 
31 Benedicamus Domino
32 Motet Alma redemptoris mater à 5 (Victoria)
33 Post partum 
34 Elogium
35 Motet Hodie Christus natus est (Schutz)
36 Voluntary Fête (Langlais)

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