CHORAL RECORDINGS

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THE MATCHLESS MAIDENS OF BATH ABBEY

King of Glory — Sir William Harris

Ex ore innocentium — John Ireland

Litanies à la Vierge Noire — Francis Poulenc

Tantum ergo — Gabriel Fauré

Panis Angelicus — César Franck

Agnus Dei — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Three Kings — Peter Cornelius

Laudate pueri — Felix Mendelssohn

Suefzer, tranen — Johann Sebastian Bach

Let the bright seraphim — George Frederick Handel

Lift thine eyes — Felix Mendelssohn

Gott ist mein Hirt — Franz Schubert

An earthly tree — William Byrd

Missa Brevis Op 63 — Bejamin Britten

Kyrie; Gloria; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei

A Song of Wisdom — Sir Charles Villiers Stanford

This recording is, quite simply, a delight.
In a land of excellent all-male choirs,
this is a remarkable group.
The American Organist

     
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BATH ABBEY GIRLS CHOIR SING CHRISTMAS CAROLS

 

Now the most high is born — Michael Rose

Ave Maria — Adam Gumpelzhaimer

Mid-Winter — Bob Chilcott

2 Carols — Michael Head

2 Cradle Songs — Max Reger

Babe of Bethlehem — Edmund Walters

The blessed virgin's cradle song — Sir Edward Bairstow

Long, long ago — Richard Shephard

People look East — Trad. arr. Paul Trepte

A Ceremony of Carols Op. 28 — Benjamin Britten

     
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Ascribe unto the Lord — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Advent Responsory — Richard Marlow
O magnum mysterium — Francis Poulenc
Hear my prayer — Felix Mendelssohn
Ecce ancilla Domini — Paul Drayton
Ave verum — Sir Edward Elgar
Salvator mundi — John Blow
Ecce vicit Leo — Peter Philips
O clap your hands — Orlando Gibbons
Listen, sweet dove — Grayston Ives
O sacrum convivium — Olivier Messiaen
Expectans expectavi — Charles Wood
The Beatitudes — Arvo Pärt
Os justi — Anton Bruckner
Lord, I call upon Thee — Sir Edward Bairstow

     
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MUSIC FOR AN ABBEY'S YEAR 3

Hail gladdening light — Charles Wood
Cantique de Jean Racine — Gabriel Fauré
Frohlocket ihr Völker — Mendelssohn
Almighty and most merciful Father — Sir William Harris
Vox in Rama — George Kirbye
Prayer of Henry VI — Henry Ley
Remember not, Lord, our offences — Henry Purcell
Kyrie — Felix Mendelssohn
There is an old belief — Sir Hubert Parry
Fac me tecum — Karol Szymanovski
The Reproaches — John Sanders
O sons and daughters — Walford Davies
O give thanks — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Virga Jesse — Bruckner
Geistliches Lied — Johannes Brahms
Beati quorum via — Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Te Deum Collegium Regale — Herbert Howells
 

     
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Te Deum (Boys, Girls & Men) — Vatican Plainsong
Rorate Coeli — William Byrd
Magnificat — Anthony Piccolo
Gaudete — Traditional, arranged King
When Jesus our Lord — Felix Mendelssohn
Lord, let me know mine end — Maurice Greene
Ave Maria — Robert Parsons
A Litany — Sir William Walton
An Easter Sequence* — Kenneth Leighton
Come down, O love divine — Sir William Harris
How beauteous our the feet — Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
Thou wilt keep him — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Here my words, ye people (Boys, Girls & Men, with 100 singers from local choirs) — Sir Hubert Parry

        

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MUSIC FOR AN ABBEY'S YEAR

I was glad — Sir Hubert Parry
Magnificat in G — Herbert Howells
Vigilate — William Byrd
I look from afar — Anthony Piccolo
On this day earth shall ring — Holdane Campbell Stewart
Nunc Dimittis — Orlando Gibbons
Ave Maria — Anton Bruckner
Greater love — John Ireland
Come faithful people — Anon, arranged King
Hosanna to the Son of David — Thomas Weelkes
Benedictus (Little Organ Mass) — Joseph Haydn
This joyful Eastertide — Traditional arranged, Charles Wood
Tu es Petrus — Maurice Duruflé
Magnificat (Collegium Magdalenae) — Kenneth Leighton
Psalm 121 — Sir Walford Davies
O what their joy — Sir William Harris

 

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ROSSINI
PETITE MESSE SOLONNELLE

Helen Field soprano
Anne-Marie Owens - mezzo-soprano
Edmund Barham tenor
John Tomlinson bass
Nettle Markham Piano Duo
Peter King harmomium
CBSO Chorus
Simon Halsey concuctor

 

   

 

 

 

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