Title from container. Previously released recordings. New College Choir, Oxford ; Edward Higgenbottom, director. Recorded: New College Chapel, Oxford, 6 & 8 January, 11 & 13 April 1996 (CD 1), 10-13 January, 7-10 April & 14-17 July 1997 (CD 2 & 3), 9-12 January 1998 (CD 4); Merton College, Oxford, January & February 2000 (CD 5), 9-12 April 2001 (CD 6); St Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, 6-9 & 16-19 July 2002 (CD 7 & 8). Booklet with program notes in English (22 p. ; ill.) inserted in first container.
Contents:
CD 1. Agnus Dei : sacred choral music. Agnus Dei, op. 11 / Samuel Barber ; Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11 / Gabriel Fauré ; arr. John Rutter ; Kyrie / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina -- Ave verum corpus, K618 / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Chorale "Jesus bleibet meine Freude" from Cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben', BWV 147 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Ave Maria (Vespers, op. 37, no. 6) / Sergey Rachmaninov -- Lux aeterna (choral setting of "Nimrod" from Enigma) / Edward Elgar (arr. John Cameron) ; Totus tuus / Henryk Górecki (text, Maria Bogusławska) ; Hear my prayer ... O for the wings of a dove! / Felix Mendelssohn ; The lamb / John Taverner ; In paradisum (Requiem, op. 48) / Gabriel Fauré ; Miserere mei, Deus. CD. 2. Early one morning : folksongs and spirituals. Blow the wind southerly ; Early one morning ; Londonderry air ; The minstrel boy ; The Kerry dance ; Linden lea ; Down by the Sally Gardens ; Brigg fair ; Loch Lomond ; Shenandoah ; O no John! ; Sumer is icumen in ; Way, waly ; The Skye boat song ; Greensleeves ; The oak and the ash ; The ash grove ; My love is like a red, red rose ; Swing low, sweet chariot. CD. 3. Nativitas : a Christmas journey. I wonder as I wander ; Adam lay ybounden / arr. John Rutter ; Alma Redemptoris / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina ; The angel Gabriel ; Ave Maria / Anton Bruckner ; A spotless rose / Herbert Howells ; There is no rose / John Joubert ; The little road to Bethlehem / Michael Head ; Once in royal David's city / Henry John Gauntlett ; Stille Nacht / Franz Gruber ; Sing lullaby / Herbert Howells ; Gloria sei dir gesungen / Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach ; O magnum mysterium / Francis Poulenc ; In dulci jubilo ; O Jesulein süß / Georg Christian Schemelli ; While shepherds watched their flocks by night / Christopher Tye ; Quem vidistis pastores / Francis Poulenc ; Shepherds shake off your drowsy sleep ; Adeste fideles ; VIdentes stellam / Francis Poulenc ; Rocking carol ; Here is the little door / Herbert Howells ; Hark! the herald angels sings / Felix Mendelssohn. CD 4. Agnus Dei II : sacred choral music. The Beatitudes / Tomas Albinoni ; Geistliches Lied, op. 30 / Johannes Brahms ; Agnus Dei / Frank Martin ; Ave verum corpus / William Byrd ; Libera me (Requiem, op. 48) / Gabriel Fauré ; Ave verum corpus, op. 65, no. 1 / Gabriel Fauré ; Agnus Dei / Georges Bizet ; Gott ist mein Hirt, D706 / Franz Schubert ; Crucifixus a 8 / Antonio Lotti ; Beatus vir / Claudio Monteverdi ; Christus factus est / Anton Bruckner ; Pie Jesu (Requiem, op. 48) / Gabriel Fauré ; Hear my prayer, o Lord / Henry Purcell ; Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (Johannes-Passion, BWV 245) / Johann Sebastian Bach. CD 5. Sancte Deus : a journey through the Renaissance. Sancte Deus / Thomas Tallis ; Spem in alium / Thomas Tallis ; Videntes stellam / Orlande de Lassus ; Ave Maria / Tomás Luis de Victoria ; Beata es Virgo Maria / Vincenzo Ugolini ; Ave Virgo sanctissima / Francisco Guerrero ; Lugebat David / Nicolas Gombert ; Gloria in excelsis Deo / William Byrd ; Versa est in luctum / Alonso Lobo ; Inviolata, integra et casta es / Josquin Desprez ; Quid hic statis / Manuel Cardoso ; Resonet in laudibus / Orlande de Lassus ; Agnus Dei / Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. CD 6. In Excelsis : English Choral music from Taverner to Tavener. Magnificat / Giles Swayne ; Quid petis, o fili? / Richard Pygott ; The lamb / John Tavener ; Come, Holy Ghost / Jonathan Harvey ; Gloria (Mass "The Western Wynde") / John Taverner ; A hymn to the Mother of God / John Tavener ; Ave cujus conceptio / Nicholas Ludford ; Woefully arrayed / William Cornysh ; I love the Lord / Jonathan Harvey ; Libera nos / John Sheppard ; God is with us / John Tavener ; Audivi vocem de caelo / Thomas Tallis ; The tyger / John Tavener. CD 7-8. Marian Vespers / Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ; reconstructed by Malcolm Bruno ; edited by Edward Higginbottom and Robert Ross. Introit ; Psalm I ; Sonata for violin and basso continuo (Largo ; Allegro) ; Psalm II ; Sonata for violin and basso continuo (Largo ; Spiritoso) ; Psalm III ; Hymn ; Sonata for cello and basso continuo (Comodo ; Allegro) ; Magnificat ; Sonata for cello and basso continuo (Adagio ; Presto) ; Marian Antiphon ; Collect ; Postlude.
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