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The Feast of St Michael & All Angels at Westminster Abbey (Michaelmas) | Hyperion CDA67643

The Feast of St Michael & All Angels at Westminster Abbey (Michaelmas)

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA67643

Barcode: 0034571176437

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 28th August 2007

Contents

Works

Alcock
Psalm 91

Britten
Jubilate Deo in C major

Dering
Factum est silentium

Harvey
Laus Deo

Howells
A Sequence for St Michael

Langlais
Messe Solennelle for mixed choir & organ

Leighton
Preces and Responses

Stanford
Psalm 148

Tippett
Plebs angelica

Tippett
Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense

Vaughan Williams
Te Deum in G

Artists

Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey

Conductor

James O’Donnell

Works

Alcock
Psalm 91

Britten
Jubilate Deo in C major

Dering
Factum est silentium

Harvey
Laus Deo

Howells
A Sequence for St Michael

Langlais
Messe Solennelle for mixed choir & organ

Leighton
Preces and Responses

Stanford
Psalm 148

Tippett
Plebs angelica

Tippett
Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabrigiense

Vaughan Williams
Te Deum in G

Artists

Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey

Conductor

James O’Donnell

About

Hyperion is delighted to present this latest CD from The Choir of Westminster Abbey under their inspirational director, James O’Donnell. They continue their exploration of the rich repertoire of the liturgy in its historical context in the Abbey with music for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels.
 
The texts for Michaelmas are uniquely dramatic and visionary, describing the angelic host and the war in heaven, and have inspired composers throughout the centuries to create settings of thrilling immediacy. This fascinating disc presents the best of these works from a range of composers.
 
Included is most of the liturgical output of Sir Michael Tippett, whose joyful, extroverted compositional style and powerful sense of drama is perfect for the atmosphere of this festival. Langlais’ tremendous Messe solennelle is unquestionably his finest piece of church music: radiant and impassioned, using the organ particularly brilliantly to create colour and emotional depth.
 
Herbert Howells’ A Sequence for St Michael is an excellent example of the mature style of the composer, an extended and substantial setting in which the Archangel’s intercession is movingly invoked.
 
These and more established favourites and rarities of the repertoire are performed here with characteristic verve and impeccable musicality in the luminous acoustic of the Abbey.

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