Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles (in two volumes), around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music of the past five centuries.
The first volume, dedicated to anthems and motets, presents both favourite and lesser-known works, from the exceptional Renaissance polyphony of Taverner, Tallis, and Byrd, through the Restoration led by Purcell, to the glorious works of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, including Wesley, Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, and Howells.
The volume contains a number of more substantial works, including Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer, Stainer's I saw the Lord, and Naylor's Vox dicentis: Clama, as well as a wonderful selection of shorter pieces, from Gibbons's O Lord, in thy wrath to Walton's Set me as a seal upon thine heart.
With the second companion volume of canticles and responses, this bipartite collection presents a comprehensive survey of English sacred music at its best.
Contents:
Anon.: Rejoice in the Lord alway
Bairstow: Jesu, the very thought of thee
Blow: Salvator mundi
Boyce: O where shall wisdom be found?
Byrd: Ave verum Corpus
Byrd: Haec dies
Byrd: Justorum animae
Byrd: Sing joyfully
Elgar: They are at rest
Farrant or Hilton: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
Gibbons: O clap your hands
Gibbons: O Lord, in thy wrath
Goss: These are they which follow the Lamb
Greene: Lord, let me know mine end
Hadley: My song is love unknown
Harris: Faire is the heaven
Harwood: O how glorious is the kingdom
Howells: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks
Ireland: Greater love hath no man
Lewis: The souls of the righteous
Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer
Morley: Nolo mortem peccatoris
Naylor: Vox dicentis: Clama
Parsons: Ave Maria
Philips: Ascendit Deus
Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord
Purcell: I was glad when they said unto me
Purcell: Let mine eyes run down with tears
Purcell: Lord, how long wilt thou be angry?
Purcell: Remember not, Lord, our offences
Stainer: God so loved the world
Stainer: I saw the Lord
Stanford: Beati quorum via
Stanford: Coelos ascendit hodie
Stanford: How beauteous are their feet
Stanford: I heard a voice from heaven
Stanford: Justorum animae
Tallis: If ye love me
Tallis: Loquebantur variis linguis
Tallis: O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
Tallis: O nata lux de lumine
Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum
Tomkins: When David heard
Vaughan Williams: O how amiable
Vaughan Williams: O taste and see
Walton: Set me as a seal upon thine heart
Wesley: Blessed be the God and Father
Wesley: Praise the Lord, O my soul
Wesley: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Wesley: Wash me throughly
Wood: O thou the central orb
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