Music for an Abbey's Year III - Wood, Ley, Purcell, et al

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Album Summary

Performer

• Marcus Sealy (Organ)

Conductor

• King, Peter

Ensemble

• Bath Abbey Choir

Composers

• Charles Wood (1866 - 1926)
• William Henry Harris (1883 - 1973)
• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695)
• John Derek Sanders (1933 - 2003)
• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
• Herbert Howells (1892 - 1982)
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
• George Kirbye (?1565 - 1634)
• Charles Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918)
• Henry Walford Davies (1869 - 1941)
• Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Henry George Ley (1887 - 1962)
• Karol Szymanowski (1882 - 1937)
• Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810 - 1876)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)

Notes & Reviews:

The music on this recording, arranged to take the listener through the church year, covers a wide range of English styles. It features Renaissance music from the Tudor period (Kirbye), Baroque from the Restoration (Purcell), the Victorian era (Samuel Sebastian Wesley) and the Edwardian Renaissance composers and their followers up through the 20th century (Stanford, Parry, Wood, Davies, Harris, Howells, Ley and Sanders). Recent trends in church music have favored the introduction of more music from the European mainland (Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bruckner, Faure, and Szymanowski). This recording illustrates the huge variety of classical music regularly performed by choral institutions today. The Bath Abbey Choir continues a centuries-old tradition of maintaining the glorious heritage of church music in the United Kingdom.

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Wood, Charles : Hail, gladdening light

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Studio

Fauré, Gabriel : Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1865
• Studio/Live: Studio

Mendelssohn, Felix : Anthems (6), Op. 79 :: no 1, Rejoice O ye people

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1843
• Studio/Live: Studio

Harris, William Henry : Almighty and most merciful Father

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Studio

Kirbye, George : Vox in Rama

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Baroque
• Studio/Live: Studio

Ley, Henry George : Prayer of King Henry VI

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Studio

Purcell, Henry : Remember not, Lord, our offences, Z 50

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1680-1682
• Studio/Live: Studio

Mendelssohn, Felix : Kyrie eleison

• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Studio/Live: Studio

Parry, Charles Hubert : Songs (6) of Farewell :: no 4, There is an old belief

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1916-1918
• Studio/Live: Studio

Szymanowski, Karol : Stabat mater, Op. 53 :: Fac me tecum

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1925-1926
• Studio/Live: Studio

Sanders, John Derek : Reproaches

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Contemporary
• Written: 1987
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Davies, Henry Walford : O sons and daughters

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Modern
• Studio/Live: Studio

Wesley, Samuel Sebastian : O give thanks unto the Lord

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 19th Century
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Bruckner, Anton : Virga Jesse, gradual for chorus in E minor, WAB 52

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1885
• Studio/Live: Studio

Brahms, Johannes : Geistliches Lied, Op. 30

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1856
• Studio/Live: Studio

Stanford, Charles Villiers : Motets (3), Op. 38 :: no 3, Beati quorum via

• Performer: Marcus Sealy (Organ)
• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1905
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Howells, Herbert : Collegium Regale :: Te Deum

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• Conductor: Peter King
• Ensemble: Bath Abbey Choir
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1944
• Studio/Live: Studio