OUT OF DARKNESS q Litany to the Holy Spirit Peter Hurford (b. 1930) [2.36] Choristers Music from Lent to Trinity Bertie Baigent organ w If ye love me Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) [2.00] Chapel Choir 1 Cunctis diebus William Byrd (1540-1623) [6.31] College Choir e Listen sweet dove Grayston Ives (b. 1948) [2.40] Chapel Choir 2 Remember not, Lord, our offences. Z 50 Henry Purcell (1659-1695) [2.57] Bertie Baigent organ Combined Choirs r Breathe on me, breath of God Ned Rorem (b. 1923) [2.17] 3 The Lamentation Edward Bairstow (1874-1946) [9.03] College Choir College Choir Benjamin Morris organ t The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Edward Elgar (1857-1934) [7.21] from The Apostles, Op. 49 4 Tantum ergo Fernand Laloux (1901-1970) [2.01] Combined Choirs College Choir Benjamin Morris organ 5 O vos omnes Pablo Casals (1876-1973) [3.36] y Libera nos John Sheppard (c. 1515-1559) [3.21] College Choir College Choir 6 Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) [4.44] u I Saw the Lord John Stainer (1840-1901) [7.19] Combined Choirs Combined Choirs Bertie Baigent organ Benjamin Morris organ Harry Shapiro & Jamie Wilkinson trebles 7 Surrexit pastor bonus Jean L’Heritier (1480-1551) [3.31] Louisa Dawes soprano, Sophie Nairac contralto College Choir Jaliya Senanayake tenor, Peter Lidbetter bass

8 Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) [6.11] Total timings: [75.45] College Choir Julia Sinclair soprano Benjamin Morris organ 9 Incantation pour un jour Saint Jean Langlais (1907-1991) [5.20] Benjamin Morris organ THE CHOIR OF JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE 0 Sedebit dominus rex James MacMillan (b. 1959) [4.17] BENJAMIN MORRIS & BERTIE BAIGENT ORGAN from The Strathclyde Motets MARK WILLIAMS DIRECTOR College Choir www.signumrecords.com DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY sang a short service for those who wished to OUT OF DARKNESS paraphrased from the book of Job – inevitably OF THE REVEREND DOCTOR come together in their sadness. A week later dark, though the final section suggests JOHN HUGHES (1978-2014) the College Choir sang at the funeral in Ely This disc complements the Choir’s CD Journey redemption rather than resignation. Kerman Cathedral, with a congregation of over 1000 into Light which followed the Church’s year from has speculated that this piece may have been On the evening of Sunday 29th June 2014, the people present. I would like to thank Chris Advent to Candlemas. Ash Wednesday marks planned as a companion work to Infelix ego, but Choir of Jesus College learnt the news of the Hazell and Mike Hatch, our producer and the beginning of Lent (tracks 1 & 2) before wonders what can have been “the attraction tragic death of their dear friend, John Hughes, engineer, for their immense support and moving into Passiontide (tracks 3, 4, 5), the last of these deathly texts to a young composer in a car accident earlier that day. John had professionalism during the recording of this supper and Good Friday. From this darkness, we who in the later 1570’s was just feeling out his been an undergraduate at Jesus College and in disc, but, most of all, I would like to pay emerge into the light of the Resurrection at true powers ...” 2009 returned as Chaplain, later being tribute to the Choristers, Choral Scholars and Easter (tracks 6, 7, 8) and the Feast of the appointed Dean of Chapel. He was just 35 years Organ Scholars of Jesus College Cambridge. Ascension (tracks 9, 10). The visit of the Holy In Remember not, Lord, our offences, a ‘full’ old at his death. An air of intense sadness fell That they were able to sing or play at all Spirit at Pentecost (tracks 11, 12, 13, 14) has anthem for SSATB dating from around 1680, over the whole community in the days that is a miracle and it was not an easy time. inspired countless sacred choral works, and Purcell sets a text from the 1544 Litany. The followed. Candles were lit, flowers left and, Yet, in making music together, we were able the final feast of the Church’s year – Trinity piece begins and ends homophonically but as throughout the ancient buildings and grounds to find some outlet for our grief and (tracks 16, 17) – is celebrated here with two the simple diatonic phrase at “neither take thou that were so dear to John, students, staff, confusion and this disc will always be, for us, very contrasting pieces by John Sheppard and vengeance” is undermined by the rising 5-note academic colleagues and friends comforted a reminder of that time and that man. It is John Stainer. chromatic phrase introduced at “spare us, each other in their grief and bewilderment. It dedicated to the memory of the Reverend Dr good Lord”, tension builds towards a powerful was during these days, immediately following John Hughes with much love and admiration. Byrd’s predicament as a Roman Catholic climax. Beginning and ending in calm the death of John Hughes, that this recording surviving in the alien environment of the late supplication, this anthem encompasses a was made. The options to postpone or to Mark Williams 16th century is roughly equivalent to that of surprisingly wide emotional range in its three abandon the project were offered to the Choir, Shostakovich working within the Soviet Union. minutes’ duration. but it was their fervent wish to make the disc As Joseph Kerman has written, we may well and to dedicate it to the memory of someone imagine that Byrd was expressing through Edward Bairstow made important contributions who meant a great deal to each and every his religious music “prayers, exhortations to the Anglican church tradition as organist performer. Within 24 hours of learning the news, and protests on behalf of the English Roman of Wigan and Parish Churches, then of the red light was on and just a couple of hours Catholic community”. Byrd’s Cunctis Diebus, from 1913 until his death. He after the last take, the Chapel of Jesus College a six-part work from the 1591 collection of was knighted in 1932. A typically outspoken was filled to bursting as the Combined Choirs Cantiones Sacrae, is a setting of words Yorkshireman, he remained loyal to his roots,

- 4 - - 5 - shunning an approach from in individuality. Of the many pieces which first emerging at “Devouring depths of hell their Britten composed his Festival Te Deum, in 1928. In 1942 he set words selected from Laloux composed for the churches at which prey”. Stanford reverts to 4/4 (now in G major) Op. 32, in November 1944 in response to a The Lamentations of Jeremiah by the Dean of he worked, several are regularly performed at at “All glory to the Father be” but the 3/4 commission for the centenary of St Mark’s York, the Very Reverend E. M. Milner-White, major churches and cathedrals. The hymn-like returns for the splendid final Alleluia section. Church, Swindon the following year. The and described his composition: “It is just a few Tantum ergo included here, the simpler of his two premiere on 24th April 1945 (only weeks before chants of irregular pattern, and a refrain; but settings, is in four parts with a soprano descant Born in the Pas de Calais region, Jean Peter Grimes was first staged) was given by it is effective”. Actually the piece is rather in the second verse. L’Heritier was among the most highly regarded the choir of St Mark’s, a church with a proud more than this characteristically terse Renaissance composers of the generation choral tradition, together with choristers from summary would suggest – a straightforward In common with all his other choral works, following Josquin des Prez, with whom, according three other local churches. Compared with but eloquent setting of the words, its simplicity Pablo Casals’ O vos omnes (Jeremiah’s words to an Italian contemporary, he studied at one Britten’s earlier Te Deum setting of 1934, quite different from Bairstow’s earlier style. from Lamentations 1:12) was dedicated time. In the early years of the 16th century he this festival work is more original in content Bairstow was a gifted teacher, his duties in to Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia and first was associated with the Royal French court, and structure and includes a soprano soloist. this sphere occupying much of his time, but performed there. The Benedictine Monastery but subsequently he worked in Ferrara, Rome, Britten shows his typical accommodation of he did compose a fairly modest amount of at Montserrat proved to be one of the great Mantua and Verona. Around 1530 he returned amateur musicians’ abilities in his writing church music of enduring quality, including spiritual influences of Casals’ life. Before his to live and work in France. The popularity of for the choir, while the organ part is more about thirty anthems. reinterment in 1979 at El Vendrell in Catalonia, his music in Rome is indicated by the inclusion soloistic. In the opening section the choral his remains were laid in the Montserrat sacristy. of his works in several manuscripts of parts have changing time-signatures, Fernand Laloux came to in 1914 The passionate, richly-textured O vos omnes Roman origin, but his music was also widely suggesting great freedom, while the organ along with many other Belgians. He became sets the words of Christ and is most suitable circulated across Europe. It is believed that plays decorated chords in a constant 3/4. At organist at Beaumont College, Windsor, then for performance in Holy Week. he wrote about fifty motets, two of which “Thou art the King of glory” the music suddenly in 1924 joint Director of Music at Farm Street Palestrina used as the basis of a mass. The becomes strongly rhythmic, with extrovert church. Laloux also held appointments as Charles Villiers Stanford completed his Easter original manuscript of his six-part composition flourishes from the organ, but calm returns singing teacher then Director of Music at anthem Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem in 1910. Surrexit pastor bonus was a working choir book and the piece ends serenely. Wimbledon College, close to the church, a position The text is from a hymn by Saint Fulbert of for the Julian Chapel choir of the Vatican and he maintained until his death in 1970. Laloux Chartres – words better known in combination was re-discovered and published by David Blinded by glaucoma from the age of two, lost a leg serving in WW2, but continued to play with the hymn-tune “St. Fulbert” by Henry Trendell, late Director of Music at King’s Jean Langlais studied the organ with Marcel the organ. His compositional language, while John Gauntlett (1805-76). In this anthem College . Dupré, composition with Paul Dukas and influenced by Ravel and, in his later works, Stanford alternates sections in 3/4 (G major) improvisation with Charles Tournemire. He Peeters, Langlais and Messiaen, is not lacking and 4/4 (G minor) respectively – the latter was organist at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde

- 6 - - 7 - in Paris from 1945 to 1988, a position formerly shows the influence of ancient Celtic music, 35 years later, he remained an unreformed was primarily a theologian, these simple verses held by César Franck and Charles Tournemire. another area which has provided MacMillan Catholic, but managed to avoid the religious remain among his best-known writings Langlais composed more than 250 works, with a rich source of inspiration. controversies of that extremely turbulent period. and Rorem’s setting is lyrical and typically including about 90 for solo organ. Incantation Tallis was one of the first church composers accessible, with some chromaticism from the pour un jour Saint (1949) is one of many Born in Minehead, Peter Hurford studied to set English words in his anthems. If ye love third repetition of “Breathe on me ...” pieces which he based upon Gregorian chant. both music and law at Jesus College Cambridge, me, a beautiful miniature in ABB form with Langlais evokes the ritual in which the deacon where he established a reputation as an words from the Gospel of St John, is one of Elgar completed The Apostles in 1903, intending carries three candles into the darkness of the outstanding organist. Subsequently he studied several anthems which he wrote during the it as the first work of a trilogy. The Kingdom cathedral. Just as, while lighting each candle the organ with André Marchal in Paris. For twenty reign of Edward VI. followed in 1906 but the final work, provisionally in turn, the deacon chants “Lumen Christi years organist and choirmaster of St. Alban’s entitled The Last Judgment, was left as merely (Light of Christ),” so Langlais begins the Abbey, in 1963 he conceived the idea of an Grayston Ives is a former member of the a few jottings. Elgar was deeply influenced Incantation with three statements of the organ competition which was later developed King’s Singers, singing tenor from 1978-85. Until by the Ring Cycle and decided to emulate “Lumen Christi” chant. Between recalls of into the St. Alban’s International Organ March 2009 Ives was Informator Choristarum Wagner by not only employing many leitmotifs the chant in the middle of the piece, and at Festival. He has recorded and broadcast the (teacher of the choirboys), organist and Fellow but also assembling his own libretto – based the resplendent D major conclusion, Langlais complete organ works of J. S. Bach. Among and Tutor in Music at Magdalen College on episodes from the Gospels. The Spirit of the incorporates fragments of the chant, with Hurford’s considerable body of work for the Oxford. His choral output ranges from canticles, Lord is upon me, with a short introduction for accumulating intensity. Anglican liturgy his Litany to the Holy Spirit, anthems and motets to arrangements of orchestra/organ, forms the very opening of a a setting of lines from the well-known Robert spirituals, folk-songs and I’ve got you under work which has prompted the observation James MacMillan is a Lay Dominican and a very Herrick poem, is his most widely performed my skin. His Listen sweet dove, a setting of that it is Judas who is given the most large proportion of his output has been inspired composition. He is an Honorary Fellow of lines from George Herbert’s collection The distinctive musical characterisation. by his Catholic faith. Sedebit dominus rex is the Jesus College. Temple, dates from 1973. seventh of the first set of fourteen communion Little is known about the life of John Sheppard motets – accessible in style and of only The Anglican liturgy was reformed during the Born in Indiana, Ned Rorem has composed but his output is enough to distinguish him moderate difficulty – composed for Strathclyde six-year reign of Edward VI, the second of several dozen choral works, a cappella or as one of the finest Tudor composers of church University Chamber Choir between 2005 and four monarchs for whom Tallis composed and accompanied. His several operas and large music. The first of his two 7-part settings of 2010. He has composed three sets of these performed. Their successive differing attitudes output of songs equally reflect his preoccupation Libera nos, salva nos is included here, its text so-called Strathclyde Motets to date. In the to church music meant that Tallis was obliged with the human voice. Breathe on me, breath taken from the sixth antiphon at Matins on opening section of this motet for the Feast to be remarkably versatile – a challenge of God, a setting of words by Edwin Hatch Trinity Sunday. It is believed that this of Christ the King the incisive soprano line which he met with great skill. Like Byrd, born (1835-89), dates from 1989. Although Hatch work dates from Sheppard’s time at Magdalen

- 8 - - 9 - College Oxford, where he served for a few years TEXTS but spare us, good Lord, hiss, and wag their head at the daughter of as Informator Choristarum from 1543. In this Spare thy people, whom thou hast Jerusalem saying, serene setting the cantus firmus is sung by the 1 Cunctis diebus redeemed with thy most precious blood, ‘Is this the city that men called the perfection of bass line beneath a richly interwoven texture, William Byrd (1540-1623) and be not angry with us for ever. beauty; the joy of the whole earth?’ with imitative entries based on variants of Spare us, good Lord. a descending phrase first heard in the third Cunctis diebus quibus nunc milito, JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, bar. Especially notable is Sheppard’s extended expecto donec veniat immutatio mea. Words: The Litany (BCP) RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD. treatment of the final words “O beata Trinitas”. Dimitte me ergo, ut plangam paululum dolorem meum, 3 The Lamentation For these things I weep: mine eye, mine eye Antequam vadam, ut non revertar ad terram Sir Edward Bairstow (1874-1946) runneth down with water. Born in Southwark, the son of a cabinet-maker, miseriae ubi est nullus ordo, From on high hath the Lord sent fire into my John Stainer rose from a humble background sed sempiternus horror inhabitat. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath to become organist of St Paul’s Cathedral and people: how is she become as a widow! made me desolate and faint all the day. an Oxford Professor. He was one of the most All the days, in which I am now in warfare, She that was great among the nations, and My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath influential composers of the Victorian era but I expect until my change do come. princess among the provinces: broken my bones. his music, like much of that period, became Suffer me, therefore, how is she become tributary! He hath builded against me: and compassed me unfashionable for a time. After The Crucifixion that I may a little lament my sorrow: She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are with gall and travail. the robust anthem I Saw the Lord ranks among Before I go, and return not, to a land of misery on her cheeks: among all her lovers, she hath He hath made me to dwell in dark places: as his most popular works. and darkness, where is no order, none to comfort her. those that have been long dead. but everlasting horror inhabiteth. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to I am become a derision to all my people: and their © 2014, Philip Borg-Wheeler the solemn assembly: song all the day. Words: Job 14: 14, 10: 20–22 All her gates are desolate, and she herself is in Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him: bitterness. let him be filled full with reproach. 2 Remember not Lord our offences The Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by: behold Henry Purcell (1659-1695) her transgressions: her children are gone into and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow. captivity before the enemy. Remember mine affliction and my misery: the Remember not, Lord, our offences, All they that go by clap their hands at her: they worm-wood and the gall. nor the offences of our forefathers; neither take thou vengeance of our sins,

- 10 - - 11 - JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, 4 Tantum ergo To the One proceeding from Both Devouring depths of hell their prey RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD. Fernand Laloux (1901-1970) Let there be equal praise. At his command restore: Amen. His ransom’d hosts pursue their way Remember O Lord, what is come upon us: behold Tantum ergo sacramentum Where Jesus goes before. and see our reproach. Veneremur cernui: Words: St Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned Et antiquum documentum Triumphant in his Glory now, into mourning. Novo cedat ritui: 5 O vos omnes To him all pow’r is giv’n; The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, Præstet fides supplementum Pablo Casals (1876-1973) To him in one communion bow for we have sinned. Sensuum defectui. All saints in earth and heav’n. O vos omnes qui transitis per viam: For this our heart is faint: for these things our attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus. eyes are dim. Genitori, Genitoque While we, his soldiers, praise our King, Let us search and try our ways: and turn again Laus et jubilation: O all ye that pass by the way, His mercy we implore, unto the Lord. Salus, honor, virtus quoque attend and see if there be any sorrow Within his palace bright to bring Turn thou us unto thee O Lord, and we shall be Sit et benedictio: like to my sorrow. And keep us evermore. turned: renew our days as of old. Procedenti ab utroque It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not Compar sit laudatio. Words: The Lamentation of Jeremiah 1: 12 All glory to the Father be, consumed: because his compassions fail not. Amen. All glory to the Son, They are new every morning: great is thy 6 Ye Choirs of new Jerusalem All glory, Holy Ghost, to thee, faithfulness. Hence so great a Sacrament Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) While endless ages run. The Lord is my portion saith my soul: therefore will Let us venerate with heads bowed I hope in him. And let the old practice Ye choirs of new Jerusalem, Alleluia! Amen. O Lord thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul: Give way to the new rite; Your sweetest notes employ, thou hast redeemed my life. Let faith provide a supplement The Paschal victory to hymn, Words: Fulbert of Chartres (952–1028), tr. by Robert For the failure of the senses. In strains of holy joy. Campbell (1814–1868) et al. JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM, RETURN UNTO THE LORD THY GOD. To the Begetter and the Begotten For Judah’s Lion bursts his chains, Be praise and jubilation, crushing the serpent’s head; Hail, honour, virtue also, Words: The Lamentation of Jeremiah And cries aloud through death’s domains And blessing too: To wake the imprison’d dead.

- 12 - - 13 - 7 Surrexit pastor bonus Heav’n and earth are full of the Majesty And we worship thy name, ever world without end. q Litany to the Holy Spirit Jean L’hériter (c. 1480-1552) of thy glory. Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin. Peter Hurford (b. 1930, Jesus 1948) The glorious company of the Apostles praise thee. O Lord, have mercy upon us, have mercy upon us. Surrexit pastor bonus qui animam suam posuit The goodly fellowship of the Prophets praise thee. O Lord, let thy mercy lighten upon us, In the hour of my distress, pro ovibus suis, alleluia. The noble army of Martyrs praise thee. as our trust is in thee. When temptations me oppress, Et pro grege suo mori dignatus est, alleluia. The Holy Church throughout all the world doth O Lord, in thee have I trusted; And when I my sins confess, Et enim pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus. acknowledge thee; let me never be confounded. Sweet Spirit, comfort me! Alleluia. The Father of an infinite Majesty; Thine honourable, true, and only Son; Words: Attributed to St Nicetas (c. 335–414), as When I lie within my bed, The good shepherd, who laid down his life for his Also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter. translated in the Book of Common Prayer Sick in heart and sick in head, sheep, has risen, alleluia. Thou art the King of Glory, O Christ. And with doubts discomfited, And he did not disdain to die for his flock, alleluia. Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father. 0 Sedebit Dominus Rex Sweet Spirit, comfort me! For truly was Christ the Paschal Lamb sacrificed When thou tookest upon thee to deliver man, James MacMillan (b. 1959) for us. Alleluia. Thou didst not abhor the Virgin’s womb. When the house doth sigh and weep, When thou had’st overcome Sedebit Dominus Rex in aeternum: And the world is drowned with sleep, Words: Easter Respond at Mattins (Roman rite) the sharpness of death, Dominus benedicet populo suo in pace. Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Thou didst open the Kingdom of Heaven Sweet Spirit, comfort me! 8 Festival Te Deum to all believers. The Lord will sit on his royal throne for ever: Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Thou sittest at the right hand of God, the Lord will bless his people with peace. Words: Robert Herrick (1591-1674) in the glory of the Father. w We praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to We believe that thou shalt come to be our Judge. Lord, you give us Christ, the King of all creation, If ye love me be the Lord. We therefore pray thee, help thy servants, as food for everlasting life. Thomas Tallis (c. 1505-1585) All the earth doth worship thee, the Father Whom thou hast redeemed Help us to live by the gospel and bring us to the everlasting. with thy precious blood. joy of his kingdom. If ye love me, keep my commandments, To thee all Angels cry aloud, the Heav’ns, and all Make them to be number’d with thy Saints, and I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another comforter, the Pow’rs therein. in glory everlasting. Words: Psalm 28: 10-11; Communion Prayer for Christ that he may ‘bide with you forever, e’en the spirit To thee Cherubim and Seraphim O Lord, save thy people, and bless thine heritage. the King (Roman Rite) continually do cry, Govern them and lift them up for ever. of truth. Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God of Sabaoth! Day by day we magnify thee; Words: John 14: 15–17

- 14 - - 15 - e Listen sweet dove r Breathe on me, breath of God t The Spirit of the Lord Free us, save us, defend us, Grayston Ives (b. 1948) Ned Rorem (b. 1923) Edward Elgar (1857–1934) O blessed Trinity.

Listen sweet dove unto my song, Breathe on me, Breath of God, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Words: Antiphon at Matins for Trinity Sunday And spread thy golden wings in me; Fill me with life anew, because he hath anointed me to preach the Hatching my tender heart so long, That I may love what thou dost love, Gospel to the poor: u I saw the Lord Till it get wing and flie away with thee. And do what thou wouldst do. He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, John Stainer (1840-1901) to preach deliv’rance to the captives and Such glorious gifts thou didst bestow Breathe on me, Breath of God, recov’ring of sight to the blind, I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and The earth did like a heav’n appeare, Until my heart is pure, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord; lifted up, and his train filled the temple. The starres were coming down to know Until with thee I will one will To give unto them that mourn a garland for ashes, Above it stood the seraphim: each one had six If they might mend their wages and serve here. To do and to endure. the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise wings; with twain he cover’d his face, and with twain he cover’d his feet, and with twain he Breathe on me, Breath of God, for the spirit of heaviness; did fly. The sunne which once did shine alone, Till I am wholly thine, That they might be called trees of righteousness, And one cried unto another, Holy, Holy, Holy is the Hung down his head and wisht for night, Until this earthly part of me the planting of the Lord, Lord of Hosts: When he beheld twelve sunnes for one Glows with thy fire divine. that He might be glorified. Going about the world and giving light. For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, the whole earth is full of his glory. Breathe on me, Breath of God, and as the garden causeth the things that are And the posts of the door mov’d at the voice of Lord though we change thou art the same, So shall I never die, sown in it to spring forth; him that cried, and the house was filled with The same sweet God of love and light: But live with thee the perfect life So the Lord God will cause righteousness and smoke. Restore this day for thy great name, Of thine eternity. praise to spring forth before all the nations. Unto his ancient and miraculous right. O Trinity! O Unity! Words: Edwin Hatch (1835–1899) Words: Isaiah 61 Be present as we worship thee, Words: George Herbert (1593–1633) And with the songs that angels sing y Libera nos, salva nos Unite the hymns of praise we bring. Amen. John Sheppard (c. 1515-1559) Words: Isaiah 6: 1–4 Libera nos, salva nos, justifica nos, O beata Trinitas.

- 16 - - 17 - THE CHOIR OF JESUS key events and large-scale projects. In addition Radios 2, 3 and 4. Praised by The Times for schoolchildren visiting Jesus College Chapel COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE to the weekly schedule of choral services, their “energy, verve, immaculate tuning and to take part in vocal workshops and a final members of the Choirs enjoy concerts, recordings, beguiling tone”, Jesus Choral Scholars enjoy concert. The Chapel Choir has made several Jesus College, founded out of the ancient broadcasts and foreign tours. an exciting schedule of European and long- recordings, including a disc of Choral nunnery of St Radegund in 1496, has a long haul travel and in recent years have undertaken from Jesus College, and Sweet and rich tradition of church music. It is The College Choir sings two services of Choral major international educational programmes in Spirit, Comfort Me, a selection of music for distinctive in maintaining two choirs: the Evensong each week and regularly performs at India and Sri Lanka. boys’ voices on the Priory label. Chapel Choir, dating from the foundation of additional services, special events and concerts the College, which is made up of boy choristers in Cambridge, the UK and abroad. Recently, The Chapel Choir is one of only three all-male The Combined Choirs, an ensemble of nearly and adult male singers; and the College the Choir has given well-received performances college choirs of its kind in Cambridge, and is fifty singers, come together for occasional Choir, formed in 1982, which has female of Bach’s St John Passion, Handel’s Dixit highly regarded. It is thought that boys may services, concerts, recordings and tours. Recent undergraduates for its top line. The adult male Dominus and Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle; have sung in the Chapel from the foundation projects have included Britten’s War Requiem singers form the ‘back row’ for both choirs. participated in the BBC Proms as part of the of the College in the fifteenth century, but in in King’s College Chapel under David Hill; Each choir has developed a distinctive University’s 800th anniversary celebrations; 1849 the Choir was re-endowed and provision two Christmas Celebration concerts with the reputation and repertoire, whilst combining for and recorded broadcasts for BBC TV and was made for “six singing boys” to adorn the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, directed by worship of the newly restored Chapel. Since John Rutter; Britten’s St Nicolas with Britten then, trebles from all over Cambridge have Sinfonia; Fauré’s Requiem and works by volunteered to sing for College services. The Poulenc and Rodney Bennett, also with Britten College does not maintain a choir school, but Sinfonia; Bach’s St Matthew Passion in St instead recruits choristers from a wide range Edmundsbury Cathedral, Monteverdi’s Vespers of local schools. with His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, and Handel’s Messiah with Britten Sinfonia, all The Chapel Choir sings for two of the four under Mark Williams. In December 2010 the Choral each week, and at concerts Combined Choirs toured together for the first and special events throughout the year. time in several years, performing in a variety The Choristers have recently performed in of venues along the East Coast of the United Switzerland, France and Germany, and in States of America, and featuring on television Windsor Castle, and enjoy leading regular stations including BBC1, ITV, CNN and ABC, singing days which see hundreds of local and on BBC Radio 5 Live. They then toured

- 18 - - 19 - Germany together in July 2012, performing in into Light, featuring music from Advent to BENJAMIN MORRIS Arnstadt and Leipzig amongst other places, Candlemas, was released in 2012, their and visited the West Coast of the USA in second, War and Peace, featuring music for Benjamin Morris is the Senior at December 2012 where performances in Seattle, Remembrance, was released in 2013 and Jesus College Cambridge, and recently graduated Portland, Oakland and San Francisco were their third My Beloved’s Voice, featuring music with a double first in Music. During his time greeted with standing ovations. This is the from the Song of Songs and other sacred songs as an undergraduate he has appeared in fourth disc recorded by the Combined Choirs of love, was released in 2014. services and concerts throughout the world, for Signum Classics. Their first disc Journey www.jesuscollegechoir.com on radio and on CD. He has played chamber organ with the Choir of Jesus College in Treble Soprano Alto/Counter-tenor Tenor performances of Monteverdi’s Vespers, Handel’s Theo Amies Jessica Ballance Matthew Anisfeld Declan Corr Messiah and the St Matthew Passion, playing Aidan Bennett Natasha Brice Charlotte Barrett- Jake Dyble alongside His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts Deputy Head Chorister Louisa Dawes Hague Adrian Li and Britten Sinfonia. As a student, Ben has Arthur Considine Sarah Hargave Thomas Hillman Toby Miller also conducted Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 Jacob Fitzgerald Harriet Hunter Emma Kavanagh Jaliya Senanayake in D minor, Elgar’s Scenes from the Bavarian Tobias Fitzgerald Eleanor Hussey Sophie Nairac Highlands, Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Toby Gardner Anna Nicholl Matthew Rogers Bass sell-out performances of Milhaud’s chamber Edmund Goodman Syamala Roberts Alexandra Schwinn Max Cockerill opera, Le Pauvre Matelot. Thomas Hadden Julia Sinclair Elliot Thompson Amatey Doku Deputy Head Chorister Declan Kennedy With recent venues including Huddersfield Kieran Hazell-Luttman Peter Lidbetter Town Hall, Southwell Minster, St John’s College, Cambridge. Before starting university, he spent James Patterson Michael Mofidian Cambridge and the Buxton Festival, Ben is a year as Organ Scholar at Gloucester Cathedral. Gus Richards Louis Wilson increasingly engaged as a soloist for recitals Harry Shapiro and other performances; he played in Elgar’s Ben has performed on BBC Radio 4 both at Head Chorister The Dream of Gerontius at St John’s Smith the Buxton Festival and in a live broadcast William Sartain Square, in Britten’s War Requiem at Ely with the Choir of Jesus College at the Oundle Samuel Stark Cathedral under , and in International Festival. He has studied with Westcott Stark Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis under the baton Gordon Stewart, David Briggs, Robert Houssart James Wilkinson of Sir Roger Norrington in King’s College, and Richard Pinel, and has studied harpsichord

- 20 - - 21 - at the Royal Academy of Music with Terence ranging from baroque orchestral music, through Charlston. He is a prizewinning Fellow of the classical and romantic symphonies, to the Royal College of Organists. works of twentieth-century composers such as Bartók and Walton, as well as his own BERTIE BAIGENT compositions. Most recently he has founded his own ensemble in Cambridge whose Bertie Baigent is the Junior Organ Scholar inaugural concert featured Wagner’s Siegfried and a Music undergraduate at Jesus College Idyll and Sibelius’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Cambridge. He works regularly with the Choirs plans to pursue further orchestral and of Jesus College, playing for services, concerts, operatic projects during his time as a student and on the choirs’ tours. In June 2014 he in Cambridge. was awarded a starred first in his first-year exams, and received the Donald Wort Prize for MARK WILLIAMS achieving the highest mark in Music across the University of Cambridge. Mark Williams is Director of Music, Fellow and College Lecturer in Music at Jesus College Bertie’s compositions have won numerous Cambridge. He studied at Trinity College accolades and awards; these include the BBC Cambridge where he held both the organ Young Composers’ Competition 2013, the Bath scholarship and an academic scholarship. Philharmonia Sound Connections Competition In 2000, at the age of 21, he was appointed 2013, the Ludlow English Song Festival 2013, Radio 3, and recent commissions include a Assistant Organist of St Paul’s Cathedral in Mark Williams has appeared as organist and the Royal Opera House Fanfare Competition fanfare for the Royal Philharmonic Society and London and Director of Music at St Paul’s harpsichordist nationally and internationally 2012, and the National Centre for Early Music an anthem for the Choir of Somerville College, Cathedral School. He relinquished both posts with many of the UK’s leading ensembles, Young Composers’ Award 2011. While at Oxford. His organ work Bright spark, shot from in April of 2006 in order to pursue his growing including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, school he was a member of the National a brighter place will be published in 2015, freelance career. In September 2009 he took the City of London Sinfonia and the Gabrieli Youth Orchestra, who performed his works along with a CD including the same work. up the post of Director of Music at Jesus Consort and Players. As a conductor he has in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall College Cambridge where he also holds a worked with the Britten Sinfonia, London Mozart and the Royal College of Music. Two of his As a conductor Bertie studies with Nicholas Fellowship, teaching in both the College and Players, Saraband Consort and City of Prague compositions have been broadcast on BBC Cleobury, and has directed performances the Music Faculty. Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the Principal

- 22 - - 23 - Conductor of the International William Byrd Festival in Portland Oregon and the Chief Guest Conductor of the City of London Choir, and has given solo recitals and led masterclasses in choral training, singing and organ performance in the UK, the USA, Asia and Africa. A Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, he is a Freeman of the City of London, and a trustee of the the Oundle Music Trust, Cambridge Early Music, the Harlton Organ Trust, the Muze Music Trust in Zambia and Songbound which aims to change the lives of underprivileged children in India through music. He is the Honorary President of the Chamber Choir of Erne Integrated College in Enniskillen.

In addition to writing and arranging music for the popular classical-crossover groups Blake and All Angels, Mark Williams has performed on a number of film soundtracks, and appears on CD with the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cambridge Singers, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The King’s Consort, The Sixteen, Arcangelo The Chapel Choir and Retrospect Ensemble. He is the Musical Consultant for the television crime drama, Endeavour. The Reverend Doctor John Hughes

- 24 - - 25 - This disc has been made possible thanks to the generosity of Patrons and Friends of the Choir of Jesus College Cambridge and donations made to the John Hughes Choir Fund.

Recorded in the Chapel of Jesus College Cambridge 30 June to 3 July 2014 by kind permission of the Master and Fellows. Producer & Editor – Chris Hazell Recording Engineer – Mike Hatch

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Music from Lent to Trinity OUT OF DARKNESS DARKNESS OF OUT 1 Cunctis diebus William Byrd [6.31] 2 Remember not, Lord, our offences. Z 50 Henry Purcell [2.57] 3 The Lamentation Edward Bairstow [9.03] 4 Tantum ergo Fernand Laloux [2.01] 5 O vos omnes Pablo Casals [3.36] 6 Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem Charles Villiers Stanford [4.44] 7 Surrexit pastor bonus Jean L’Heritier [3.31] CHOIR OF JESUS COLLEGE JESUS OF CHOIR 8 Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 Benjamin Britten [6.11] 9 Incantation pour un jour Saint Jean Langlais [5.20] 0 Sedebit dominus rex James MacMillan [4.17] q Litany to the Holy Spirit Peter Hurford [2.36] w If ye love me Thomas Tallis [2.00] e Listen sweet dove Grayston Ives [2.40] r Breathe on me, breath of God Ned Rorem [2.17] t The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Edward Elgar [7.21]

CHOIR OF JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE / WILLIAMS from The Apostles, Op. 49 CAMBRIDGE y Libera nos John Sheppard [3.21] u I Saw the Lord John Stainer [7.19]

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THE CHOIR OF JESUS COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE Dedicated to the memory of John Hughes

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