Choir of Worcester College - The Beauty of Holiness: Music for the Epiphany (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 MB | Tracks: 25 | 74:12 min
Style: Classical | Label: Herald
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 270 MB | Tracks: 25 | 74:12 min
Style: Classical | Label: Herald
This album celebrates the musical heritage of the Christian feast of the Epiphany, the revelation of the infant Christ to the world. Like the feast itself, the music is traditionally centred on the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem and the star that led them to the Holy Family.
This recording opens with the rousing hymn O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness, by the prolific hymn-writer the Revd John Samuel Bewley Monsell (d.1875), taking inspiration from Psalm 96 and the gifts of the Magi. It was written in 1863, one year before the re-decoration of Worcester College Chapel. The tune comes from the Choralbuch von Johann Heinrich Reinhardt, an eighteenth century German manuscript, and was set to Monsell’s poem by the compilers of the English Hymnal.
Whilst O worship the Lord now seems very traditional, it is interesting to note how recently it has entered the choral repertoire.
Tracklist:
01. O Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness
02. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223
03. New Year Carol
04. Prélude sur l'introit de L'Épiphanie, Op. 13
05. Introit "Ecce advenit dominator dominus"
06. Gradual "Omnes de saba"
07. Alleluia "Vidimus stellam"
08. Offertory "Reges tharsis"
09. Communion "Vidimus stellam"
10. No Small Wonder
11. Poèmes évangéliques, Op. 2" II. La nativité
12. Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
13. O Lord, How Manifold Are Thy Works
14. The Holy Boy
15. Away in a Manger
16. Esquisses byzantines" VIII. Noël
17. Natus est nobis Deus de Deo
18. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, P. 46
19. Pueri concinite
20. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
21. Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning
22. 12 Pièces pour orgue" IX. Marche des Rois Mages
23. Omnes de Saba venient
24. Canzone Francese seconda
25. As with Gladness Men of Old
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