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This is the third and final disc in Winchester Cathedral's survey of Stanford's sacred choral music. Several favourites here, including the dramatic For lo, I raise up and the grand hymn St Patrick's Breastplate.
Also included are some less well known works. Lighten our darkness, written in Windsor during an air-raid in 1918, here receives its first recording; the edition has been prepared specially for Winchester Cathedral Choir by DrJeremy Dibble. The Latin Magnificat was also composed in 1918, almost as a 'sorry' note for a falling-out Stanford had had with Hubert Parry shortly before the latter's death; the score is inscribed: 'This work, which death prevented me from giving Charles Hubert Hastings Parry in life, I dedicate to his name in grief. C.V.S.'
1. Evening Service In C Op 115: Magnificat
2. Evening Service In C Op 115: Nunc dimittis
3. Ye Choirs Of New Jerusalem Op 123
4. The Festal Communion Service In B Flat, Op 128: Gloria in excelsis
5. St Patrick's Breastplate
6. Glorious And Powerful God Op 135 No 3
7. Eternal Father Op 135 No 2
8. For lo, I Raise Up Op 145
9. Magnificat For Eight-Part Chorus Op 164
10. Lighten Our Darkness
11. How Beauteous Are Their Feet |
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