Britten: Sacred Choral Works Norwich Cathedral Choir & Ashley Grote

• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976): Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30:
• 1 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 1a, Rejoice in God, O Ye Tongues 01:17
• 2 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 1b, Let Nimrod the Mighty Hunter 01:29
• 3 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 1c, Hallelujah 01:02
• 4 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 2, For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffrey 01:53
• 5 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 3, For the Mouse Is a Creature of Great Personal Valour 00:59
• 6 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 4, For the Flowers Are Great Blessings 01:49
• 7 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 5, For I Am Under the Same Accusation with My Saviour 02:07
• 8 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 6, For H is a Spirit and Therefore He is God 01:11
• 9 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 7, For the Instruments Are by Their Rhimes 02:31
• 10 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30: No. 8, Hallelujah from the Heart of God 01:06
• Benjamin Britten:
• 11 Jubilate Deo in C Major 02:44
• 12 Te Deum in C Major 07:39
• 13 A Hymn of St. Columba 02:17
• 14 Hymn to St. Peter, Op. 56a 05:22
• 15 A Hymn to the Virgin 03:01
• 16 Hymn to St. Cecilia, Op. 27 09:55
• 17 Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 06:10
• A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28:
• 18 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 1, Procession 01:30
• 19 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 2, Wolcum Yole 01:23
• 20 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 3, There Is No Rose 02:07
• 21 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 4, That Yongë Child 01:32
• 22 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 5, Balulalow 01:03
• 23 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 6, As Dew in Aprille 00:56
• 24 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 7, This Little Babe 01:29
• 25 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 8, Interlude 03:04
• 26 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 9, In Freezing Winter Night 03:34
• 27 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 10, Spring Carol 01:03
• 28 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 11, Deo gracias 01:09
• 29 A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: No. 12, Recession 01:35
• Total Runtime 01:12:57

Info for Britten: Sacred Choral Works

Norwich Cathedral Choir’s latest album celebrating the music of East Anglian composer Benjamin Britten will be released Sunday 4 October. Britten: Sacred Choral Works was recorded in February this year and is being released on the Priory Records label.

One of the foremost British composers of the 20th century, Britten’s life was closely associated with East Anglia. Living in Aldeburgh, Britten had strong connections with Norfolk and with Norwich itself. It was whilst he was only a pupil at Gresham’s School in Holt that he composed his Hymn to the Virgin, one of his best-known small choral works, which is heard on this new recording.

Britten attended the Triennial Norfolk and Norwich Festivals in 1924 and 1927, where he met Frank Bridge, who was to become his composition teacher. His Song-Cycle Our Hunting Fathers was commissioned by the Festival and premiered in Norwich in 1936. In 1955, Britten composed his Hymn to St Peter, also heard on this disc, for the Quincentenary of the church of St Peter Mancroft.

The choir’s new recording also features Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, in which the boy and girl choristers’ voices are heard with harp accompaniment. The first performance of this now famous work was given in Norwich Castle in December 1942, after Britten had composed it whilst travelling by sea back from America during the war. It has now become traditional for the Norwich Choristers to perform this piece each January as part of the Cathedral’s Epiphany celebrations.

Directed by the Master of Music, Ashley Grote, and accompanied on the organ by David Dunnett (Cathedral Organist) and George Inscoe (Assistant Organist), the disc also includes many of Britten’s best-loved compositions for the Church, including his settings of the Te Deum in C major and E major, the Hymn to St Cecilia and his cantata Rejoice in the Lamb.

The Choir of Norwich Cathedral
Ashley Grote, direction

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