Passiontide At St. Paul's - Scott, St. Paul's Cathedral (2012)

This sequence of music for Lent, Passiontide and Easter represents a journey through perhaps the most dramatic part of the Church’s year. It is a season which has inspired many composers to write some of their most potent pieces, and contrasts the seriousness of intent and poignancy found in, say, Lotti’s Crucifixus with the exuberance of music such as Philips’s Ecce vicit Leo.

Other favourites in this anthology include Mendelssohn’s I waited for the Lord, Bruckner’s Christus factus est, and the beautiful Gibbons setting of Drop, drop, slow tears with the soloist Anthony Way (who caused such a stir in television’s The Choir). There are also two important new works, by John Sanders and Brian Chapple.

A celebration both of Easter and of exceptional singing.

Composer: Orlando Gibbons, Brian Chapple, Richard Farrant, Edward Bairstow, …
Performer: Anthony Way, Andrew Lucas, Timothy Jones, Connor Burrowes, …
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir

Tracklisting:

1. Drop, drop, slow tears by Orlando Gibbons
Performer: Anthony Way (Boy Soprano), Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: England
Language: English

2. Ecce lignum Crucis by Brian Chapple
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ), Timothy Jones (Bass)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1993; England

3. Call to remembrance, O Lord by Richard Farrant
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; England

4. The Lamentation by Edward Bairstow
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1942; England

5. Te Deum in C major by Benjamin Britten
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ), Connor Burrowes (Treble)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1934; England

6. Hear us, O Lord by Anonymous
Performer: Connor Burrowes (Treble), Edward Burrowes (Treble), Jonathan Arnold (Bass)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir

7. Crucifixus a 8 by Antonio Lotti
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
Language: Latin

8. Cantiones sacrae: Ecce vicit Leo by Peter Philips
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1613; Brussels, Belgium
Language: Latin

9. Symphony no 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 "Lobgesang": Ich harrete des Herm by Felix Mendelssohn
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ), Connor Burrowes (Treble), Edmund Hill (Treble)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1840; Germany
Language: English

10. Reproaches by John Derek Sanders
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1987; England
Language: English

11. Christus factus est, WAB 11 by Anton Bruckner
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: Romantic
Written: 1884; Vienna, Austria
Language: Latin

12. This joyful Eastertide by Traditional
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Written: Netherlands (Holland

13. In exitu Israel by Edward Bairstow
Performer: Andrew Lucas (Organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Paul's Cathedral Choir
Period: 20th Century
Written: by 1929; England




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