Title from disc label. Vasari Singers ; Jeremy Backhouse, conductor. Booklet texts, biographical and program notes in English (20 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
A secular anthem (from To music: a song poem / Robert Herrick ; Musick's empire / Andrew Marvell) (7:54) -- Genesis (from Geoffrey Hill's Genesis from For the unfallen (6:07) -- Five spiritual songs (George Herbert) (9:55) -- Rejoice with us (Revd Dr F. Pratt Green) (3:00) -- Night songs of Edward Thomas (20:14) -- Missa brevis (11:14) -- Merciles beaute (Geoffrey Chaucer) (5:39) -- A parley of owls (Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight / anon. ; This is the old immortal bird from The inn of the birds / Anthony Rye ; When cats run home / Alfred Lord Tennyson) (3:38) -- Praise ye the Lord (Psalm 148, vv. 1-5) (2:53).
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