Set upon the Rood [Geoffrey Webber]

Set upon the Rood

New music for choir & ancient instruments

James MacMillan (b1959)

Noli Pater

John Kenny (b1957)

The Deer's Cry

Stuart MacRae (b1976)

Cantata

Bill Taylor (b1957)

Crux fidelis

Francis Grier (b1955)

Cantemus

Stevie Wishart (b1959)

Iste Confessor

Stephen Bick (b1993)

Set upon the Rood

Barnaby Brown (triplepipe, aulos)

John Kenny (loughnashade horn, chimes)

Patrick Kenny (carnyx, chimes)

Bill Taylor (lyre)

James Leitch (organ, crotales)

Michael How (organ, crotales)

Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Webber

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Haec Dies [Geoffrey Webber]

Byrd & the Tudor Revival

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Whitsunday Hymn

William Harris (1883-1973)

Eternal Ruler

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)

Man born to toil

Thomas Tallis (c1505-1585)

Funeral Music

Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)

O living Bread, who once didst die

Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)

Up to those bright and gladsome hills

William Byrd (c1539-1623)

Mass for Five Voices

Fantasia in C

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

A Hymn to the Virgin

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Haec dies

Robert Pearsall (1795-1856)

Tu es Petrus

Arnold Bax (1883-1953)

Lord, thou hast told us

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Master Tallis's Testament

Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Webber

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Bach: St. Mark Passion [Geoffrey Webber]

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

St Mark Passion

CD1

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

St Mark Passion Part I

St Mark Passion Part IIa

CD2

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

St Mark Passion Part IIb

Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739)

Laudate Pueri Dominum

Ruth Gomme (soprano), William Towers (alto), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Timothy Mirfin (bass), Paul Thompson (tenor)

The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

The Cambridge Baroque Camerata

Geoffrey Webber

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In Praise of Saint Columba [Geoffrey Webber]

In Praise of Saint Columba

The sound world of the Celtic Church

Os mutorum, lux cecorum

Loquebar de testimoniis tuis

River Erne horn duet

Adiutor laborantium

Sanctorum piissime Columba

Lauda anima mea Dominum

Noli Pater

Carne solutus pater Columba

Amen dico vobis

Liberasti nos Domine

Cantemus in omni die

Altus prosator

Volens Ihesus linire

Laudate Dominum

The Desperate Battle of the Birds

Barnaby Brown (triple pipes, lyre)

Simon O'Dwyer, Malachy Frame (medieval irish horns)

Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Webber

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Chorus vel Organa [Geoffrey Webber]

Music from the lost Palace of Westminster

Anonymous

Sancte Dei pretiose

Nicholas Ludford (c1485-c1557)

Missa Lapidaverunt Stephanum - Gloria

Anonymous

Felix namque

Nicholas Ludford (c1485-c1557)

Salve Virgo

Lady Mass Cycle, Tuesday - Kyrie

William Cornysh (1468-1523)

Magnificat

Nicholas Ludford (c1485-c1557)

Lady Mass Cycle, Wednesday - Laetabundus

Lady Mass Cycle, Thursday - Agnus Dei

John Sheppard (c1515-1558)

Sancte Dei pretiose

Nicholas Ludford (c1485-c1557)

Lady Mass Cycle, Monday - Gloria

Missa Lapidaverunt Stephanum - Agnus Dei

Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Magnus Williamson (organ)

Geoffrey Webber

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Samuel Wesley: Sacred Choral Music [Geoffrey Webber]

Samuel Wesley (1766-1837)

Sacred Choral Music

In exitu Israel

Ave Regina Caelorum

Magnificat anima mea

Air

Gavotte

Ostende nobis Domine

Morning service in F major: Jubilate

Evening service in F major: Nunc dimittis

Ecce panis angelorum

Domine salvam fac

Omnia vanitas

Voluntary in D major for organ

Tu es sacerdos

Might I in Thy sight appear

O Lord God most holy

Dixit Dominus

The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Webber

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Dormi Jesu [Geoffrey Webber]

A Caius Christmas

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)

Es ist ein ros entsprungen

Carl Rütti (b1949)

A Patre unigenitus

Matthew Owens (b1971)

The Holly and the Ivy

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)

Here is the little door

arr. Edward Higginbottom (b1946)

Rocking Carol

Thomas Hewitt Jones (b1984)

What child is this?

arr. David Willcocks (1919-2015)

Sussex Carol

Franz Gruber (1787-1863)

Stille Nacht

arr. Robert Pearsall (1795-1856)

In dulci jubilo

Peter Tranchell (1922-1993)

If ye would hear the angels sing

Pierre Villette (1926-1988)

Hymne à la Vierge

William Mathias (1934-1992)

Wassail Carol

Robert Parsons (c1535-1572)

Ave Maria

Anton Webern (1883-1945)

Dormi Jesu

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Videntes stellam

William Walton (1902-1983)

Make we joy now in this feast

Martin Shaw (1875-1958)

Hills of the North rejoice

Giovanni Gabrieli (c1550-1612)

O magnum mysterium

arr. Magnus Williamson

Of the Father's heart begotten

Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

Resonet in laudibus

Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Geoffrey Webber

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William Child: Sacred Choral Music [Geoffrey Webber]

William Child (1606-1697)

Sing we merrily

O Lord God, the heathen

O bone Gesu

O God, wherefore art Thou absent from Us

Jubilate Deo

Psalm 11: In the Lord put I my trust

Psalm 6: O Lord, rebuke me not

Turn Thou us

Psalm 14: The fool hath said in his heart

Psalm 1: Blessed is the man

Magnificat in E minor (transposed to A minor)

Nunc Dimitis in E minor (transposed to A minor)

The earth is the Lord's

Psalm 9: I will give thanks unto thee

Psalm 54: Save me O God

Behold how good and joyful

Psalm 6: O Lord, rebuke me not

Glory be to God on high

Holy, holy, holy

O Lord, Grant the King a Long Life

The Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Geoffey Webber

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