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557557-8 bk English Choral 26/01/2005 10:59am Page 24 9 Look up, sweet babe, Op. 43 No. 2 He is meek, and he is mild, Look up sweet babe, look up and see He became a little child. For love of thee, tho’ far from home, I, a child, and thou a lamb, We are called by his name. The East is come to seek herself in thy sweet eyes. Little Lamb, God bless thee! To thee thou day of night, thou East of West Little Lamb, God bless thee! Lo we at last have found the way. To thee the world’s great universal East William Blake The general and indiff’rent day. ENGLISH CHORAL MUSIC Richard Crashaw $ The Lord’s Prayer Our Father who art in Heaven 2 CDs featuring music by Howells, Elgar, Hallowed be Thy name 0 & ! Magnificat and Nunc dimittis Thy kingdom come See tracks 1 & 2 Thy will be done Stanford, Finzi, Tavener and others On earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our daily bread @ An Easter Sequence - Sortie And forgive us our trespasses God is ascended, As we forgive those who trespass against us Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge • Christopher Robinson God is ascended in Jubilee And lead us not into temptation and the Lord in the sound of the trumpet, But deliver us from evil Alleluia! Amen Rejoice to God our helper: Sing aloud to the God of Jacob. % Song for Athene Alleluia. May flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. # The Lamb Alleluia. Remember me O Lord, Little Lamb, who made thee? when you come into your kingdom. Dost thou know who made thee? Alleluia. Give rest O Lord to your hand-maid, Gave thee life, and bid thee feed who has fallen asleep. By the stream and o’er the mead; Alleluia. The Choir of Saints have found the well- Gave thee clothing of delight, spring Softest clothing, woolly, bright; of life, and door of paradise. Gave thee such a tender voice, Alleluia. Life: a shadow and a dream. Making all the vales rejoice? Alleluia. Weeping at the grave creates the song: Little Lamb, who made thee? Alleluia. Dost thou know who made thee? Alleluia. Come, enjoy rewards and crowns Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee, I have prepared for you. Little Lamb, I’ll tell thee; He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb. 8.557557-58 24 557557-8 bk English Choral 26/01/2005 10:59am Page 2 CD 1 8 Crux fidelis, Op. 43 No. 1 from the Mass of the Presanctified Crux fidelis, inter omnes Faithful cross, above all other, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Arbor una nobilis: Tree all peerless and divine; 1 Magnificat in G, Op. 81 4:13 0 Take him, earth, for cherishing 7:44 Nulla silva talem profert, No forest bears such a flower, 2 Nunc Dimittis in G, Op. 81 4:18 fronde, flore, germine. such a leaf. Soloist: Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble) Peter Hurford (b. 1930) Dulce lignum, dulces clavos, Sweet is the wood and sweet are the nails, ! Litany to the Holy Spirit 2:26 dulce pondus sustinet. Laden with the sweetest weight. Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) Soloist: Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble) 3 Justorum Animae from Three Latin Motets 3:24 Felle potus ecce languet, See him assuage his thirst with gall. Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) Spina, clavi, lancea, Thorns, nails, and a spear Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) @ Welcome Sweet and Sacred Feast, Op. 27, No. 3 7:31 Mite corpus perforartur, pierce his soft flesh. 4 Ave verum corpus, Op. 2, No. 1 2:39 Sanguis unda profluit, His blood flows as water Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) Terra, pontus, astra mundus to wash over all the earth, Sir Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Tenebrae Motets - Third Nocturn, Op. 72 Quo lavantur flumine. The sea, the sky, the whole universe. 5 Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), Op. 74 7:50 # I. Eram quasi agnus innocens 2:50 $ II. Una hora non potuistis 2:02 Flecte ramos, arbour alta, Towering tree, bend your branches Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) % III. Seniores populi 2:22 Tensa axa viscera, To bear the load of his flesh. 6 The Call 2:05 Et rigor lentescat illa Surrender from your Soloist: Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble) Edmund Rubbra (1901-1986) Quem dedit nativitas: natural tension, ^ Magnificat in A flat 4:18 Et superni membra Regis And relax to bear the sweet limbs Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Tende miti stipite Of the most high God and King. 7 Magnificat, St Paul’s 6:33 Gerald Finzi (1901-1956) 8 Nunc Dimittis, St Paul’s 4:59 & God is gone up, Op. 27, No. 2 4:24 Sola digna tu fuisti You are a most worthy source Ferre mundi victimam: To comfort and bear Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Atque portum praeparare a harsh victim of the world. 9 Paean for Organ 6:03 Arca mundi naufrago, Ark, which saved the universe; Organist: Iain Farrington Quam sacer cruor perunxit Tree, anointed with the sacred blood Fusus agni corpore Of the Lamb’s body slain on a spindle. Crux fidelis, inter omnes Faithful cross, above all other, Arbor una nobilis: Tree all peerless and divine; Nulla silva talem profert, No forest bears such a flower, fronde, flore, germine. such a leaf. Translated by Kate Johnson 8.557557-58 2 23 8.557557-58 557557-8 bk English Choral 26/01/2005 10:59am Page 22 O dear white children casual as birds, 7 The Lord is my Shepherd, Op. 91 No. 1 CD 2 Playing among the ruined languages, The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want. So small beside their large confusing words, He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth Sir William Walton (1902-1983) Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) So gay against the greater silences me beside the still waters. 1 Set me as a seal upon thine heart 3:34 7 The Lord is my Shepherd, Op. 91, No. 1 4:21 Of dreadful things you did: O hang the head, He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of Soloists: Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble); Soloist: Benjamin Durrant (treble) Impetuous child with the tremendous brain, righteousness for his name’s sake. Edward Lyon (tenor) O weep, child, weep, O weep away the stain, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Lost innocence who wished your lover dead, death, I will fear no evil: Sir William Walton (1902-1983) 8 Crux Fidelis, Op. 43, No. 2 6:53 Weep for the lives your wishes never led. For thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort 2 Coronation Te Deum 9:50 Soloist: Allan Clayton (tenor) me. (arr. Simon Preston and Mark Blatchly) O cry created as the bow of sin Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) Is drawn across our trembling violin. (Psalm 23) Sir William Walton (1902-1983) 9 Look up, Sweet Babe, Op. 43, No. 2 4:34 3 Gloria from Missa Brevis 3:24 Soloists: James Geidt (treble) O law drummed out by hearts against the still Soloists: Oliver Lepage-Dean (treble); Long winter of our intellectual will. Geoffrey Silver (tenor) Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) 0 Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis 5:03 That what has been may never be again. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) ! Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense 3:13 4 A Hymn to the Virgin 3:06 O flute that throbs with the thanksgiving breath Soloists: William Goldring (treble); Christopher de la Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) Of convalescents on the shores of death. Hoyde (alto); Simon Wall (tenor); Reuben Thomas (bass) @ An Easter Sequence - Sortie 4:11 Soloist: Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) O bless the freedom that you never chose. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) 5 Jubilate Deo 2:38 Sir John Tavener (b. 1944) O trumpets that unguarded children blow # The Lamb 3:47 About the fortress of their inner foe. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) 6 Hymn to St Cecilia, Op. 27 10:20 Sir John Tavener (b. 1944) O wear your tribulation like a rose. Soloists: Benedict Giles, Ben Harrison (trebles); $ The Lord’s Prayer 3:30 Richard Moore (alto); Jonathan Bungard (tenor); Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions Reuben Thomas (bass) Sir John Tavener (b. 1944) To all musicians, appear and inspire. % Song for Athene 5:43 Translated daughter, come down and startle Composing mortals with immortal fire. W.H. Auden 8.557557-58 22 3 8.557557-58 557557-8 bk English Choral 26/01/2005 10:59am Page 4 Howells (8.554659) An Evening Hymn (8.557129) 5 Jubilate Deo Translated Daughter, come down and startle Recorded: 13th-15th March 1999 Recorded: January/February 2002 O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands, serve the Lord Composing mortals with immortal fire. Producer: Andrew Walton Producer & Engineer: John Rutter with gladness and come before his presence with a Engineer: Eleanor Thomason Booklet Notes: George Guest song. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God: 2 Booklet notes: Andrew Burn It is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are I cannot grow; Publishers: Novello, OUP, Stainer & Bell, CPP-Belwin Leighton (8.555795) his people, and the sheep of his pasture. I have no shadow Recorded: 9th-11th July 2002 To run away from, Britten (8.554791) Producer: Andrew Walton O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and I only play. Recorded: 13th-15th July 1999 Engineer: Eleanor Thomason into his courts with praise; Producer: Andrew Walton Booklet notes: Andrew Burn be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name.