Choir of St Johns College - Lament & Liberation (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

The first album from the Choir of St John’s with their new music director - Christopher Gray. Leaning into the college’s well-established tradition of championing new music, at the heart of the programme are two triptychs: James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados, composed 35 years ago, and Joanna Marsh’s Echoes in Time, commissioned by the College in recent months. There is also a new choral work by Helena Paish and a new organ work by Martin Baker alongside existing works by Roxanna Panufnik and Dobrinka Tabakova. The commissioned works were conceived with the distinctive environment of St Johns’ Victorian chapel (designed by George Gilbert Scott and consecrated in May 1869), its organ and its fine, world-famous choir which has done service since its post-Restoration establishment in the 1670s.

TRACKLIST

1. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Panufnik: Westminster Mass: III. Deus, Deus meus
2. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Marsh: Echoes in Time: i. The Hidden Light
3. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Marsh: Echoes in Time: ii. Refugee
4. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Marsh: Echoes in Time: iii. Still to Dust
5. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Paish: The Annunciation
6. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Baker: Ecce ego Ioannes
7. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - MacMillan: Cantos Sagrados: i. Identity
8. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - MacMillan: Cantos Sagrados: ii. Virgin of Guadalupe
9. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - MacMillan: Cantos Sagrados: iii. Sun stone
10. Choir of St Johns College, Cambridge & Christopher Gray - Tabakova: Turn our captivity, O Lord



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