01. Plainsong (Mode i): Veni Redemptor [3'21]
02. John Sheppard: Verbum Caro [4'03]
03. Michael Praetorius: A Great and Mighty Wonder [2'22]
04. Richard Knight: Come Rock His Cradle [4'52]
05. 16th C. French Tune (harmonised by Charles Wood): Ding Dong Merrily on High [1'50]
The Epiphany to Candlemas:
06. Orlando Gibbons: See, See, The Word is Incarnate [6'19]
07. Jacob Handl: Omnes De Saba [1'55]
The Queen's Accession to Quinquagesima:
08. William Byrd: O Lord Make Thy Servant Elizabeth 2'47]
09. Lennox Berkeley: The Lord is My Shpherd [3'37]
Ash Wednesday and Lent:
10. Henry Purcell: Hear My Prayer [2'05]
11. Maurice Greene: Lord Let Me Know Mine End [6'51]
12. William Walton: Litany [2'25]
13. Thomas Tallis: When Rising from the Bed of Death [3'34]
14. W A Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus [2'39]
Psalm Sunday:
15. William Byrd: Bow Thine Ear O Lord [2'25]
Holy Week:
16. Orlando Gibbons: Hosanna to the Son of David [4'21]
17. Palestrina: Agnus Dei [3'07]
Easter:
18. G F Handel: Hallelujah from 'Messiah' [4'35]
19. H J Gauntlett: Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem [2'37]
20. John Taverner: Dum Transisset Sabbatum [3'41]
21. Plainsong (Mode viii): Ad Conum Agni [1'57]
Sacred Music sung by Dean Close School Chapel Choir. Choirmaster Peter Cairns and with Colin Sherratt- organ.
Priory PRCD476 (recorded June 1993; CD not commercially released)
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Recording venue: Tewkesbury Abbey
Recording engineer and Producer: Neil Collier
Here's a rare recording which was produced by Priory for one of England's leading Public Schools, Dean Close at Cheltenham. At the time, the school had one of the country's finest school choirs.
The musical selection, sung during the Lent Term, seems appropriate to this season and the chapel choir explores a wide range of sacred music styles from early plainsong to Victorian hymns and contemporary settings. Whilst there is no HIP influence, the early music is performed stylishly with fine voices. However, the 'Hallelujah' chorus does suffer with just an organ accompaniment.
Of particular note is one of the very few recordings of the Tallis hymn 'When Rising from the Bed of Death' which uses one of the tunes from Archbishop Parker's Psalter and which forms the basis of Vaughan Williams'Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.
Appendix: Please note that tracks 14 - 16 are mislabeled on the tray inlay card. They are correct in the booklet and the above listing.