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Review
published in the September edition of the Royal School
of Church Music magazine:
*** O BE JOYFUL IN THE LORD
Lincoln Cathedral Choir /
Charles Harrison (organ)/ Aric Prentice
Guild GMCD 7325
The performances on this disc are of the very highest
order and the various psalms that are sung to Anglican
chant are models of perfection: both in terms of the
singing and the accompanying. Each chanted psalm is
paired with an anthem/motet-type setting; and these
include Stanford’s Jubilate in B flat (Ps.
100), Byrd’s Sing Joyfully (Ps. 81), Lennox
Berkeley’s The Lord is my Shepherd (Ps. 23),
Palestrina’s Super flumina Babylonis (Ps. 137),
and Schütz’s An den Wassern, zu Babel (also
137)with Colin Walsh at the harpsichord. The solo in
Mendelssohn’s Hear my Prayer (Ps. 55) is sung
by Avalon Summerfield with just the right balance
between drama and innocence. A fairly rare – and all the
more welcome – performance of Jonathan Harvey’s
atmospheric I love the Lord (Ps. 116) is
included; and a sumptuous rendition of Elgar’s mighty
Give unto the Lord (Ps. 29) brings this first
class disc to a rousing conclusion.
Christopher Maxim
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O be joyful in the Lord
The choir's latest
recording is available
now from:
Miss S Jordan, Lincoln Minster School,
Upper Lindum Street, Lincoln LN2 5RW
Tel:
01522 551342. Price: £12.00
each, plus postage and packing.
(select a track to hear a
sample)
1 Elgar:
Psalm 100
2 Stanford:
Jubilate Deo in Bb
3 Turle, Hanforth:
Psalm 81
4 Byrd: Sing Joyfully
5 Marshall:
Psalm 23
6 Berkeley: The Lord is my Shepherd
Christopher Mitchell (treble solo)
7 Goss, Bairstow:
Psalm 55
8 Mendelssohn:
Hear my
prayer
Avalon Summerfield (soprano solo)
9 Goss:
Psalm 116
10 Harvey:
I love the Lord
11 Lloyd:
Psalm 137
12 Palestrina:
Super Flumina
Babylonis
13 Shutz:
An den Wassern, zu Babel, saβen wir
14
Garrett: Psalm 29
15 Elgar:
Give unto
the Lord
HAIL MARY
(Guild GMCD7291)
This recording presents, for the first time on disc,
the full Cathedral Choir of Boys, Girls and Gentlemen, in a programme of music for
Lincoln's Patron Saint, the Blessed Virgin Mary. The music spans ten centuries in a rich
and diverse selection of the choir's large repertoire.
Available from the Cathedral Shop
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