Westminster Cathedral Choir - Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
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This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.
The chant on this disc is the golden thread which runs throughout the entire liturgy giving the Office a natural rhythm
and inevitability as well as clarity of text and beautiful language; it is complemented here by motets and canticles by
Thomas Tallis, Tomás Luis de Victoria and Heinrich Schütz, while Jean Langlais’s massive Fête for organ concludes the
service.
The only cathedral choir in the world to sing Mass and Vespers liturgically every day, The Choir of Westminster
Cathedral is perfectly placed to offer to the armchair listener this CD encapsulation of their very lifeblood, recorded here
in the opulent acoustic of their own cathedral.
Matthew Martin, organ
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral/Martin Baker
Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
1 Introit Gaude et laetare SWEELINCK
2 Introduction to the office Deus in adiutorium
3 Antiphon Rex pacificus
4 Psalm Dixit Dominus
5 Antiphon repeat
6 Organ improvisation
7 Antiphon Magnificatus est
8 Psalm Confitebor tibi
9 Antiphon repeat
10 Organ improvisation
11 Antiphon Completi sunt
12 Psalm Beatus vir
13 Antiphon repeat
14 Organ improvisation
15 Antiphon Scitote
16 Psalm Laudate pueri
17 Antiphon repeat
18 Organ improvisation
19 Antiphon Levate
20 Psalm Laudate Dominum
21 Antiphon repeat
22 Organ improvisation
23 Chapter Apparuit benignitas
24 Responsorium breve
25 Hymn Christe redemptor omnium
26 Versicle Crastina die
27 Magnificat Antiphon Cum ortus fuerit
28 Magnificat à 5 TALLIS
29 Antiphon repeat
30 Tonus Orationis
31 Benedicamus Domino
32 Motet Alma redemptoris mater à 5 VICTORIA
33 Post partum
34 Elogium
35 Motet Hodie Christus natus est SCHÜTZ
36 Voluntary Fête LANGLAIS