The Gate of Heaven: Favorite Anthems from New College Choir of New College Oxford & Robert Quinney

• William Henry Harris (1883-1973):
• 1 Faire is the Heaven 05:09
• 2 Bring Us, O Lord God 03:55
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924):
• 3 For lo, I raise up, Op. 145: For Lo, I Raise Up, Op. 145 07:49
• Matthew Martin (1976- ):
• 4 Ut unum sint 03:41
• 5 Lo, the Full, Final Sacrifice, Op. 26 14:43
• 6 3 Anthems, Op. 27: No. 2. God Is Gone Up 04:42
• Matthew Martin:
• 7 I saw the Lord: I Saw the Lord 10:25
• Patrick Hadley (1899-1973):
• 8 My Beloved Spake 03:39
• Rhian Samuel (1944- ):
• 9 Love Bade Me Welcome 03:46
• Charles Villiers Stanford:
• 10 Morning, Communion and Evening Services in C Major, Op. 115: Te deum laudamus 07:56
• Total Runtime 01:05:45

Info for The Gate of Heaven: Favorite Anthems from New College

The revival of British music in the late nineteenth century coincided with two profound religious changes: the so-called Oxford Movement, the influence of which on standards of liturgy and music in the Church of England reached far beyond the ‘Anglo-Catholic’ churches it spawned; and the Roman Catholic Church, whose presence in the religious and cultural life of the country had grown since its emancipation in 1829. The musical influence of the latter was, by the turn of century, focussed on the new Westminster Cathedral, whose first public liturgies were held in 1903, featuring both plainchant and a good deal of polyphonic music of the sixteenth century - much of the latter heard for the first time since the Reformation. Meanwhile, the standard of music in the Anglican Cathedrals and collegiate foundations was improving, following reforms to choir schools and professional singers’ terms; and the influence of contemporary continental European music and education, seen in the foundation of the Royal College of Music in 1882, equipped a new generation of composers with a methodical and comprehensive training. These various influences may be detected in the repertoire presented on this album.

Timothy Wakerell, organ
Choir of New College Oxford
Robert Quinney, direction

Recorded in New College Chapel, Oxford, July 2016

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