Sermons and Devotions

Label: BMG Classics | Year: 1996

Singers: David Hurley (countertenor), Nigel Short (countertenor), Bob Chilcott (tenor), Bruce Russell (baritone), Philip Lawson (baritone), Stephen Connolly (bass)

“Sermons and Devotions uses an austere, unequivocally modern idiom…Gorecki’s masterpiece loses none of its intensity. As, indeed, is the case with equally outstanding and emotionally charged accounts of music by Stravinsky and Tavener.”

Track Listing

  1. Totus tuus Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki 9:17
  2. Piispa ja pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan) Veljo Tormis 9:08
  3. Pater Noster Igor Stravinsky 1:34
  4. Ave Maria Igor Stravinsky 1:57
  5. Wymondham Chants: Prologue- Ave, rex angelorum Geoffrey Poole 3:14
  6. Wymondham Chants: Scherzo-Tutivillus Geoffrey Poole 1:55
  7. Wymondham Chants: Prayer-Mary modyr Geoffrey Poole 6:14
  8. Wymondham Chants: Epilogue-Blessed Jesu Geoffrey Poole 5:19
  9. Funeral Ikos John Tavener 7:16
  10. The Lamb John Tavener 3:22
  11. Sermons And Devotions: A statue of snowe Richard Rodney Bennett 3:05
  12. Sermons And Devotions: A flowre at sun-rising Richard Rodney Bennett 3:18
  13. Sermons And Devotions: Poor intricated soule! Richard Rodney Bennett 3:06
  14. Sermons And Devotions: The seasons of his mercies Richard Rodney Bennett 6:23
  15. Sermons And Devotions: The bell doth toll Richard Rodney Bennett 3:57

 

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