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“Benjamin Britten had a rare genius for setting words to music, becoming one of the most successful choral composers of the 20th Century … Voices and organ make a mystical union, spotlighting their sonorous incompatibilities … Rejoice: “Once again the composer extracts a first-rate performance” “Gloriana Dances: choral singing of such quality … balance of the recording … exceptionally life-like and satisfactory, and the sound as good as I have heard …no carol is more perfect in its simplicity than his Hymn to the Virgin … I also enjoy Britten’s church music from New College, Oxford, directed by David Lumsden. This includes the Hymn to St Cecilia.” (Gramophone)
| [1] Festival Te Deum (St. John’s) 5:59 |
| [2] A Hymn to the Virgin (St. John’s) 3:17 |
| Missa Brevis (Worcester) [10:13] |
| [3] Kyrie 1:35 [4] Gloria 3:02 |
| [5] Sanctus & Benedictus 3:18 [6] Agnus Dei 2:17 |
| [7] Hymn to St Cecilia (New College 11:02 |
| [8] Rejoice in the Lamb (Purcell Singers) 15:38 |
| Choral Dances from ‘Gloriana’ (L.S.O Choir) [8:46] |
| [9] Time 1:20 [10] Concord 2:30 [11] Time & Concord 1:09 |
| [12] Country Girls 0:57 [13] Rustics & Fishermen 0:48 |
| [14] Final Dance of Homage 2:00 |
| [15] Jubilate Deo (Trinity College) 2:26 |
| [16] Carry Her over the Water (Trinity College) 2:27 |
| [17] Deus in Adjutorium Meum (Trinity College) 4:53 |
| [18] Venite Exultemus Domino (Trinity College) 5:35 |
| [19] Jubilate Deo (1934) (Trinity College) 2:32 |
