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St Luke's Choir, Sydney Street, Chelsea c.1908. John Ireland is sittng at the extreme right of the second row; immediately behind him is Bobby Glassby, who inspired the piano Prelude The Holy Boy. Photo: John Ireland Charitable Trust

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MY SONG IS LOVE UNKNOWN ) I am trusting (Eastergate) And yet I know that it is true: Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-79) He chose a poor and humble lot, The Church Music of John Ireland (1879–1962) And wept, and toiled, and mourned, and died, I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus, For love of those who loved him not. Trusting only Thee; 1 Te Deum in F 6:45 Four Unaccompanied Carols 8:27 Trusting Thee for full salvation, I sometimes think about the Cross, 2 Benedictus 4:54 % Adam lay ybounden 1:38 Great and free. And shut my eyes, and try to see ^ New Prince, New Pomp 2:45 The cruel nails and crown of thorns, I am trusting Thee for pardon, Communion Service in C 14:32 & The Holy Boy 2:37 And Jesus crucified for me. At Thy feet I bow; 3 Kyrie 1:07 * A New Year Carol 1:27 But even could I see him die, 4 Credo 3:47 For Thy grace and tender mercy, Trusting now. I should but see a little part (Oliver Jones, Treble • Thomas Stockwell, Bass) ( Greater love hath no man 5:29 Of that great love, which like a fire, 5 Sanctus 1:28 (Oliver Page, Treble • Bozidar Smiljanic, Baritone) I am trusting Thee for cleansing Is always burning in his heart. 6 Benedictus qui venit 1:18 In the crimson flood; 7 Agnus Dei 2:11 ) I am trusting (Eastergate) 2:35 Trusting Thee to make me holy And yet I want to love thee, Lord; (Bryony Waddingham, Soprano • Stephen Clay, Bass) By Thy blood. O light the flame within my heart, 8 Pater noster 1:32 ¡ Ex ore innocentium 3:24 And I will love thee more and more, 9 Gloria in excelsis 3:09 (Ffion Frazher, Soprano) I am trusting Thee to guide me; Until I see thee as thou art. Thou alone shall lead, £ Island Praise Every day and hour supplying 0 My song is love unknown 2:56 ™ Capriccio, for organ solo 5:03 Isaiah xlii.10,12 All my need. Sing unto the Lord a new song, ! Elegiac Romance, for organ solo 8:27 £ Island Praise 1:53 I am trusting Thee for power, And his praise from the ends of the world! Thine can never fail; Ye that go down to the sea, Evening Service in C 4:40 Evening Service in F 5:56 Words which Thou Thyself shalt give me And all that is therein, @ Magnificat 2:36 ¢ Magnificat 3:24 Must prevail. # Nunc Dimittis 2:04 (Charlie Kirk, Treble • Edward Joyner, Alto • The Isles, and the inhabitants thereof, Thomas Wilson, Tenor) I am trusting Thee, Lord Jesus; Let them give glory unto the Lord Never let me fall; And declare his praise in the Islands. $ Christ the Lord is risen today (Sampford) 2:05 ∞ Nunc Dimittis 2:32 I am trusting Thee for ever, And for all. EVENING SERVICE IN F

Lincoln Cathedral Choir • Charles Harrison, Organ ¡ Ex ore innocentium ¢ Magnificat Aric Prentice Bishop William Walsham How (1823-97) See track 12 It is a thing most wonderful, ∞ Nunc Dimittis Publishers: Novello (1-9, !-#, ¢-∞); John Ireland Charitable Trust (0, $, )); Stainer and Bell ((, ™); Almost too wonderful to be, See track 13 H. Freeman and Co. (%, ^, £); Boosey and Hawkes (&, *, ¡) That Godʼs own Son should come from heavʼn, And die to save a child like me. Recorded with the generous support of the John Ireland Trust and the Lincoln Cathedral Choir Association.

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Behold a simple tender babe, Lowly, laid in a manger MY SONG IS LOVE UNKNOWN In freezing winter night, By Virgin undefiled, In homely manger trembling lies: Come worship, silent adoring, The Church Music of John Ireland (1879–1962) Alas! a piteous sight. The Boy, The Heavenly Child. Although not an extensive part of his output, John before the German invasion, he was never able to resume Weigh not his crib, his wooden dish, * A New Year Carol Irelandʼs church music nevertheless represents a his post after the war. Nor beasts that by him feed; Here we bring new water from the well so clear, significant facet of his creative personality. An Anglo- Irelandʼs Te Deum in F dates from 1907 and was Weigh not his motherʼs poor attire, For to worship God with this happy New Year. Catholic by persuasion – he adored ritual, symbol and dedicated to Martin Shaw. Its structure owes much to Nor Josephʼs simple meed. Sing levy dew, sing levy dew, the water and the wine; colour as part of Christian worship – Ireland felt most Stanfordʼs Te Deum in B flat Op. 10, though in detail, The seven bright gold wires and the bugles spiritually at home in the liturgy of ʻHigh Churchʼ Irelandʼs is the simpler. Opening with a distinctive, broad This stable is a princeʼs court, that do shine. Anglicanism which, at the turn of the twentieth century, melody, the secondary material, in D minor, is This crib his chair of state, offered ample musical opportunity with its infrastructure of characteristically elegiac in character. Other movements The beasts are parcel of his pomp, Sing reign of Fair Maid, with gold upon her toe, fine cathedral and church choirs. As a first-study organist were added in 1914 and 1915 including the Benedictus in The wooden dish his plate. Open you the West door, and turn the old year go. at the Royal College of Music, where he studied under F and, for the Evening Service, the Magnificat and Nunc Sing reign of Fair Maid, with gold upon her chin, Walter Parratt, Ireland began to undertake services at Dimittis in F. In accordance with the model of Stanfordʼs The persons in that poor attire Open you the East door and let the New Year in. London churches for small fees, but his first significant services, Irelandʼs intention was to imbue these additional His royal liveries wear; appointment appears to have been in 1895 at St pieces with a pattern of cyclic thematic references in The Prince himself has come from heaven, ( Greater love hath no man Barnabas, South Lambeth, a large neo-gothic church, which the doxology (ʻGlory be to the Fatherʼ), restating the This pomp is prized there. Many waters cannot quench Love, where he deputised for six months (its principal organist at opening material of the Te Deum, functioned as a neither can the floods drown it. this time was Vaughan Williams, a fellow RCM student). In concluding statement of ʻunityʼ. Most substantial is the & The Holy Boy Love is strong as death. or around 1897 he became deputy organist to Walter Benedictus where Ireland permits himself to exercise his Herbert S Brown, d. 1963 (Song of Solomon viii:7 and viii:6) Alcock at the church of Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, in more symphonic instincts. Here the thematic material is Lowly, laid in a manger, Chelsea. Ireland once described Holy Trinity as having a allowed to expand and transform more freely, and the Greater love hath no man than this, With oxen brooding nigh, ʻreputation of the best musical service in Londonʼ; there tonal range – which extends as far as B minor – has much that a man lay down his life for his friends. The Heavenly Babe is lying, was a fine four-manual organ built by Walker in 1891, and more in common with the later, instrumentally-orientated (John xv.13) His Maiden Mother by. 40 boysʼ voices drawn from the Holy Trinity Church services of Stanford (namely those in G of 1904 and C of Who his own Self bare our sins in his own Body School who lived locally. Daily evensongs, with boysʼ 1909). Lo! the wayfaring sages, on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live voices only, were complemented by a full choir on In 1913, in response to a request from George Martin, Who journeyʼd far through the wild, unto righteousness. (1 Peter ii:24) Sundays. In 1904 Ireland moved to St Lukeʼs, Sydney the organist of St Paulʼs Cathedral, Ireland supplied a Now worship silent, adoring, Street, Chelsea. Here the liturgical practice could be Communion Service in C for Novelloʼs series of new The Boy, the Heavʼnly Child. Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified, described as ʻBroad Churchʼ and as such less congenial service music. The work was intended to be well ʻwithin in the Name of the Lord Jesus. (1 Corinthians vi:11) Leave your work and your playtime, to Ireland, but he remained at St Lukeʼs until 1926, the capabilities of an ordinary choirʼ (as was required by And kneel in homage and prayer, Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, witnessing something of a decline in the social cement of the publisher) but Ireland did his best to retain a high The Prince of Love is smiling, a holy nation. the choir in the years after the First World War. For a standard of invention in spite of this stricture. The organ Asleep in his cradle there. That ye should show forth the praises of him further fourteen years Ireland avoided the organ loft, but part is well within the capacity of a reasonably competent Who hath called you out of darkness into when his close friend, Kenneth Thompson (the incumbent player and the choral writing barely strays from its Bend your heart to the wonder, His marvellous light. (1 Peter ii:9) at St Cuthbertʼs, Kensington, another London ʻhigh uniformly homophonic and consonant manner. The Birth, the Mystery mild, churchʼ where Ireland worshipped), moved to Lancing Nevertheless, Ireland maintained a telling sense of And worship, silent, adoring, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, College, Sussex, Ireland entertained ideas of moving to thematic unity in the larger movements of the Credo The Boy, The Heavenly Child. that ye present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, Chichester (and even a post at the cathedral). In truth, (which exhibits a taut key scheme that fluctuates between acceptable unto God, which is your these feelings revealed an inner longing to return to C major and A flat) and ternary, Scherzo-like Gloria, while Dim the light of the lantern, reasonable service. (Romans xii:1) And bare the mean abode, church music. This opportunity came with Irelandʼs visits the other movements have a dignified solemnity. The Yet gold and myrrh and incense to Guernsey in 1939-40 when he became Director of Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C and the Ninefold Kyrie in Proclaim the Son of God. Music at St Stephenʼs Church, St Peter Port, in February C were intended to be a companion to the Communion 1940. However, being forced to flee the channel island Service, but were not composed until 1941. Though 8.573014 10 3 8.573014 573014bk Ireland EU_573014bk Ireland 08/10/2012 10:54 Page 4

decades lay between them, however, Ireland was at once Trinityʼs Walker organ as well as the technique of its EVENING SERVICE IN C Whilst in strange and awful strife able to recapture that once fluent Edwardian style organist and dedicatee, H. L. Balfour. Met together Death and Life: @ Magnificat established during his heyday as a church musician. Throughout his life, Ireland also produced a steady list Christians, on this happy day My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath The one significant anthem Ireland produced while at of hymns and carols. Of the hymn tunes, only one, Haste with joy your vows to pay; rejoiced in God my Saviour. For he hath regarded the St Lukeʼs was written as a commission in 1912 for Charles Sampford, was not written during his time at St Lukeʼs. ʻChrist is risen,ʼ today we cry; lowliness of his handmaiden. For behold from Macpherson, the sub-organist of St Paulʼs Cathedral. The solemn, chorale-like Eastergate (named after Now he lives no more to die. henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. For Intended as a meditation for Passiontide, Greater love Irelandʼs cottage at Eastergate near Chichester where he he that is mighty hath magnified me: and holy is his Christ, who once for sinners bled, hath no man drew its text from a compilation of scriptural holidayed after 1905), clearly intended to suggest an ʻoldʼ Name. And his mercy is on them that fear him: Now the first born from the dead, passages from Daily Light on the Daily Path, a series of style, suited the manner of hymns stipulated by Vaughan throughout all generations. He hath shewed strength Throned in endless might and power, booklets containing Bible readings which Ireland used to Williams for the English Hymnal of 1906 which purged with his arm: he hath scattered the proud in the Lives and reigns for evermore. observe on a regular basis. The anthem quickly became modern hymn books of the (so-called) saccharine imagination of their hearts. He hath put down the Hail eternal Hope on high! popular with cathedral and church choirs, and during the sentimentality of Victorian hymnwriters. In June 1915, mighty from their seat: and hath exalted the humble Hail, thou King of victory! First World War, with the mounting casualties, its Ireland composed the anthem An Island Hymn for male and meek. He hath filled the hungry with good things: Hail, thou Prince of life adored! message had a particularly affecting resonance at chorus. Published by Stainer & Bell, it was included in a and the rich he hath sent empty away. He Help and save us, gracious Lord. memorial services. In terms of genre, ʻGreater loveʼ, with collection of twelve short anthems ʻfor use in church, on remembering his mercy hath holpen his servant its sense of continuity and ʻdialogueʼ between soloists and deck, in camp or trench as occasion may requireʼ and Israel: as he promised to our forefathers, Abraham FOUR UNACCOMPANIED CAROLS chorus, has a scope and narrative that is redolent of a dedicated ʻto all brave Defenders of the Realm of George and his seed for ever. Glory be to the Father, and to small cantata; indeed, there are moments when the full V, whether on sea, land or in the air, and especially the % Adam lay ybounden the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the chorus assumes the role of ʻturbaʼ in contrast to its more menʼs Choir of HMS Achillesʼ, somewhere in the North 15th century MS beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without normal role of reflective commentary. Sea.ʼ It was later revised as a hymn with the name Island end. Amen The ravishing Ex ore innocentium for boysʼ voices Praise and published in 1956. My song is love unknown to Adam lay ybounden, Bounden in a bond; was commissioned by Sir Sydney Nicholson for the Royal Samuel Crossmanʼs poem, was written for the Public # Nunc Dimittis School of Church Musicʼs summer school in Durham in School Hymn Book of 1920, though it rapidly became Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace: Four thousand winter 1944. Ireland chose the poem ʻIt is a thing most wonderfulʼ popular among many Christian denominations through its according to thy word. For mine eyes have seen thy Thought he not too long. from Childrenʼs Hymns (1872) by Bishop William publication in Songs of Praise of 1925 (and later in other salvation, which thou hast prepared: before the face And all was for an apple, Walsham How. Well known as a hymn text, Irelandʼs hymn books). A unison tune more in the style of a song of all people; To be a light to lighten the Gentiles: and An apple that he took, conception of the words, in the form of a through- melody (with its two seamless phrases and impassioned to be the glory of thy people Israel. Glory be to the As clerkes finden, composed, plangent song, was altogether different. climax), it is purported to have been written rapidly on the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it Written in their book. Couched in the rich, post-Romantic language of his back of a menu during a lunch with Geoffrey Shaw (one of was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world secular songs, the anthem is a powerful study in the art of the editors of the PSHB). The Easter hymn tune without end. Amen Ne had the apple taken been extended melody, of subtly graded climaxes and the Sampford, named after the village of Little Sampford, near The apple taken been, masterly handling of fluid tonality. But at its heart is Saffron Walden, Essex where Ireland stayed during the $ Christ the Lord is risen today (Sampford) Ne had never our lady Irelandʼs emotional response to the agony and atonement Second World War, was commissioned by Nicholson for Latin 10th century, trans. Jane Eliza Leeson, 1853 Abeen heavʼne queen. of the Crucifixion, ultimately enshrined in one of his most the revised version of Hymns Ancient & Modern and Christ the Lord is risen today: Blessed be the time moving gestures during the reprise – ʻO light a flame written as tribute to his friend, Paul Walde, who supplied That apple taken was, within my heartʼ. him with accommodation at Little Sampford rectory while Christians, haste your vows to pay; Offer ye your praises meet Therefore we moun singen Most of Irelandʼs organ music was composed during his home at Gunter Grove, Chelsea was under constant Deo gracias! his time at Holy Trinity, Sloane Square and St Lukeʼs, threat of enemy bombing. At the Paschal Victimʼs feet. Chelsea. The Elegiac Romance dates from 1902 and has The first of Irelandʼs four carols, the archaic-sounding For the sheep the Lamb hath bled, ^ New Prince, New Pomp much in common harmonically with his early songs. The New Prince, New Pomp, dates from 1927, the year after Sinless in the sinnerʼs stead; Robert Southwell (1561-1595) score was revised in 1958. The Capriccio was composed he retired from St Lukeʼs. The choral arrangement of his ʻChrist is risen,ʼ today we cry; Nowell, nowell, nowell, sing we with mirth! in 1911, and though Ireland was by this time at St Lukeʼs, piano prelude The Holy Boy, subtitled ʻA Carol of the Now he lives no more to die. 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5 Sanctus 0 My song is love unknown by Irelandʼs friend and solicitor in Deal, Kent, Herbert S. Afternoons, Op. 7, published in 1936, though whether Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and Samuel Crossman, c.1624-84 Brown (ʻLowly, laid in a manger, With oxen brooding Ireland was aware of this earlier setting is not known. earth are full of Thy glory: Glory be to Thee, O Lord nighʼ). The same performers also sang A New Year Carol, Adam lay ybounden, which makes passing reference, My song is love unknown, most High. Amen another modal manifestation, for a Home Service ruefully perhaps, to The Holy Boy in its second line, was My saviourʼs love to me, broadcast from the BBCʼs wartime headquarters at written much later, in 1956, after Ireland had given up all 6 Benedictus qui venit Love to the loveless shown, Bedford on 29th December that same year. The practical links with church music. Blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord; That they might lovely be. anonymous words, had been set by Irelandʼs former pupil, Hosanna in the Highest. O who am I, Benjamin Britten, in his set of childrenʼs songs Friday Jeremy Dibble © 2012 That for my sake 7 Agnus Dei My Lord should take O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the Frail flesh, and die? world, have mercy upon us. O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the He came from his blest throne, world, have mercy upon us. Salvation to bestow; Lincoln Cathedral Choir O Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the But men made strange, and none world, grant us Thy peace. The longed-for Christ would know. Lincoln Cathedral Choir has established itself in recent years as one of the foremost provincial cathedral choirs. The But O, my friend, forty choristers (twenty boys and twenty girls) are all music scholars at Lincoln Minster School and the alto, tenor and 8 Pater noster My friend indeed, bass parts are taken by the adult members of the choir, who are a mixture of permanent lay vicars and annual choral Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy Who at my need scholars. In additional to the round of liturgical duties, the choir broadcasts regularly on television and radio, gives Name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth His life did spend. concerts with professional orchestras and performs throughout the East of England and from time to time on mainland as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Europe. Lincolnʼs fine organ, completed in 1898, was the last large instrument that ʻFatherʼ Henry Willis personally And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive them Sometimes they strew his way, supervised and finished. It survives with only minor alterations. that trespass against us. And lead us not into And his sweet praises sing; temptation: but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the Resounding all the day kingdom, the power and the glory, For ever and ever. Hosannas to their king. Amen Then ʻCrucify!ʼ Charles Harrison Is all their breath, 9 Gloria in excelsis And for his death Glory be to God on high, and in earth peace, goodwill Charles Harrison is Assistant Director of Music and Sub They thirst and cry. towards men. We praise Thee, we bless Thee, we Organist of Lincoln Cathedral, posts he has held since 2003. worship Thee, we glorify Thee, we give thanks to They rise, and needs will have He was organ scholar of Jesus College Cambridge, where Thee for Thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, My dear Lord made away; he took a degree in music and studied organ with David God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only begotten A murderer they save, Sanger. He went on to win prizes in the prestigious Son Jesu Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of The Prince of Life they slay. international organ competitions at St Albans and Odense. the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, Yet cheerful he His performing career has included concerts at many of the have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins To suffering goes, celebrated venues in Britain and Europe. He forms an organ of the world, receive our prayer, Thou that sitteth at That he his foes duo with his colleague David Leigh, appears as the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon From thence might free. accompanist and continuo player, and has worked with us. For Thou only art holy, Thou only art the Lord; many leading soloists, conductors and ensembles, including Here might I stay and sing, Thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most Roy Goodman, Steven Isserlis, Stephen Cleobury, Thierry No story so divine; high in the glory of God the Father. Amen Fischer, the BBC Singers, Andreas Scholl, the BBC National Never was love, dear King, Orchestra of Wales and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. In Never was grief like thine. 2010, he appeared with the Ulster Orchestra at the BBC This is my Friend, Proms, playing the mighty organ of the Royal Albert Hall. In whose sweet praise I all my days Could gladly spend. 8.573014 8 5 8.573014 573014bk Ireland EU_573014bk Ireland 08/10/2012 10:54 Page 6

Aric Prentice 1 Te Deum in F righteousness before him: all the days of our life. And We praise thee O God, we acknowledge thee to be thou Child shalt be called the Prophet of the Highest: Aric Prentice has held the joint posts of Director of Music in Lincoln the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee: the Father for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to Cathedral and in Lincoln Minster School since January 2003. His early everlasting. To thee all Angels cry aloud: the prepare his ways; to give knowledge of salvation Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee unto his people: for the remission of their sins, training was as a chorister in Durham Cathedral, and as an undergraduate Cherubim and Seraphim: continually do cry, Holy, Through the tender mercy of our God: whereby the in the choirs of Jesus College and then St Johnʼs College, Cambridge. Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and Earth are dayspring from on high hath visited us; To give light Under his direction, Lincoln Cathedral Choir has broadcast frequently on full of the Majesty of thy glory. The glorious company to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of Radios 2, 3, 4, BBC1 and ITV and recorded on the Guild, Cantoris and of the Apostles praise thee. The goodly fellowship of death: and to guide our feet into the way of peace. Naxos labels. He also directs Lincoln Minster School Chamber Choir who the Prophets praise thee.The holy Church throughout Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the were finalists in the youth choir section of Choir of the Year 2010 and all the world doth acknowledge thee; the Father of an Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and appeared in the national festival of Music for Youth in 2008 and 2011. infinite Majesty; Thine honourable true and only Son; ever shall be: world without end. Amen. Recent projects have included work with English Touring Opera, a Also the Holy Ghost: the Comforter. Thou art the recording with Decca of a new oratorio by Howard Goodall and choral King of Glory: O Christ. Thou art the everlasting Son COMMUNION SERVICE IN C workshops in the United States. As a counter-tenor, Aric has performed of the Father. When thou tookest upon thee to deliver 3 Kyrie eleison most of the best-known oratorio rôles. man: thou didst not abhor the Virginʼs womb. When Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison thou hadst overcome the sharpness of death: thou Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, didst open the Kingdom of Heavʼn to all believers. Lord have mercy Thou sittest at the right hand of God: in the glory of the Father. We believe that thou shalt come to be our 4 Credo judge. We therefore pray thee help thy servants: I believe in one God the Father Almighty. Maker of whom thou hast redeemed with thy precious blood. heaven and earth, And of all things visible and Make them to be numbered with thy Saints: in glory invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only everlasting. O lord save thy people: and bless thine begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father before heritage. Govern them: and lift them up for ever. Day all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of by day we magnify thee: and we worship thy Name very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one ever world without end. Vouchsafe O Lord to keep us substance with the Father, By whom all things were this day without sin. O Lord have mercy upon us: made: Who for us men and for our salvation came have mercy upon us. O Lord let thy mercy lighten down from heaven, was incarnate by the Holy Ghost upon us: as our trust is in thee. O Lord in thee have I of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, and was trusted: let me never be confounded. crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day He rose again 2 Benedictus Blessed be the Lord God of Israel: for he hath visited according to the Scriptures, And ascended into and redeemed his people; And hath raised up a heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father. mighty salvation for us: in the house of his servant And he shall come again with glory to judge both the David; As he spake by the mouth of his holy quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no Prophets: which have been since the world began; end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and That we should be saved from our enemies: and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and from the hands of all that hate us; To perform the the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is mercy promised to our forefathers and to remember worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the the holy Covenant; To perform the oath which he Prophets. 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Recorded in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, UK, from 6th to 7th and 27th to 29th February, 2012 Producer and Engineer: Michael Ponder • Booklet notes: Jeremy Dibble 8.573014 8.573014 Recorded with the generous support of the John Ireland Trust and the Lincoln Cathedral Choir Association Please see the booklet for a detailed track list and publishers’ details Sung texts and translations are included in the booklet and can also be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/573014.htm Cover photograph: Lincoln Cathedral Interior (Andrew Emptage / Dreamstime.com)