New from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Peace I leave with you - Music for the Evening Hour
Album Description
In their first recording for CORO The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, directed by Mark Williams, explore the repertoire that has provided the bedrock of the college’s musical life for the last 500 years.
Much music associated with evening time is naturally calm and soothing, and would satisfy those seeking transcendental beauty in the form of unchallenging ‘sound baths’, but this collection also seeks to challenge, contrasting contemporary settings with music from the 16th century. We hope, through this range of works, to capture something of that liminal space between day and night that is characterised by Evensong, and to lead the listener into that ‘peace that passes all understanding’.
Artists
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Mark Williams
Track Listing
Amy BEACH (1867-1944)
1. Peace I leave with you
Henry PURCELL (1659-95)
2. Hear my prayer
Roxanna PANUFNIK (b.1968)
3. O Hearken
Orlando GIBBONS (1583-1625)
4. Behold, thou hast made my days
Joanna MARSH (b.1970)
5. Evening Prayer
Christopher TYE (c.1505-73)
6. Lord, let thy servant now depart
Greyston IVES (b.1948)
7. In pace
John SHEPPARD (c.1515-85)
8. Libera nos I & II
Thomas TALLIS (c.1505-85)
9. Te lucis ante terminum I & II
Charles Villiers STANFORD (1857-1924)
10. Eternal Father
Imogen HOLST (1907-84)
11. A Hymne to Christ
Andrew GANT (b.1963)
12. An Evening Hymn of Sir Thomas Browne
Charles WOOD (1866-1926)
13. Hail, gladdening Light
Piers Connor KENNEDY (b.1991)
14. O nata lux
William MUNDY (c.1529-91)
15. O Lord, the maker of all thing
John TAVENER (1944-2013)
16. The Lord's Prayer
Gustav HOLST (1874-1934)
17. Nunc dimittis
Hubert PARRY (1848-1918)
18. Lord, let me know mine end
Total running time: 72.27
