Simon Preston & Christ Church Cathedral Choir: Complete Argo & L’Oiseau-Lyre Recordings
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Label: Decca
Cat No: 4852118
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 19
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 13th January 2023
Contents
Works
Der Gerechte kommt um (motet)Magnificat in E flat major, BWV243a
Geistliches Lied, op.30
Ave Maria, WAB6
Locus iste, WAB23
Virga Jesse floruit, WAB52
Mass for five voices
Mass for four voices
Mass in D major, op.86, B175
Give unto the Lord, op.74
Ave verum Corpus
Foundling Hospital Anthem, HWV268
Israel in Egypt, HWV54
Messiah, HWV56
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne 'Eternal source of light divine', HWV74
Utrecht Jubilate, HWV279
Utrecht Te Deum, HWV278
Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:5 'Cacilienmesse'
Mass in E flat major, Hob.XXII:4 'Grosse Orgelsolomesse'
Mass in F major, Hob.XXII:1 'Missa Brevis'
Mass in G major, Hob.XXII:3 'Rorate coeli desuper'
Mass in G major, Hob.XXII:6 'Missa Sancti Nicolai', 'Nicolaimesse'
I will love Thee, O Lord
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Missa Bell' amfritit' altera
Omnes de Saba venient
Penitenial Psalms (7)
Tui sunt coeli
Motets (4) pour le temps de Noel
Motets (4) pour un temps de penitence, FP97
Hymn of the Cherubim
Canticum Sacrum
Credo
Mass
Symphony of Psalms
Pater noster
Pezzi sacri (4)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV630
A Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears
All this time
Jubilate Deo
Make we joy now in this fest
Missa Brevis
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
The Twelve
What cheer?
Where does the uttered music go?
Artists
Elizabeth Gale (soprano)Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Judith Nelson (soprano)
Lilian Watson (soprano)
Gareth Hayward (treble)
Nicholas Jones (treble)
Shirley Minty (mezzo-soprano)
Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano)
James Bowman (countertenor)
Charles Brett (countertenor)
Andrew Giles (countertenor)
Alan Byers (tenor)
Philip Cave (tenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Arthur Lindley (tenor)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Neil Ritchie (tenor)
David Roy (tenor)
Mark Rowlinson (baritone)
Peter Herron (bass)
Tom McDonnell (bass)
Robert Morton (bass)
David Thomas (bass)
Alan Watt (bass)
Nicholas Cleobury (organ)
Stephen Darlington (organ)
Simon Preston (organ)
Colin Walsh (organ)
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music
English Chamber Orchestra
London Sinfonietta
Philip Jones Ensemble
Conductors
Simon PrestonChristopher Hogwood
Works
Der Gerechte kommt um (motet)Magnificat in E flat major, BWV243a
Geistliches Lied, op.30
Ave Maria, WAB6
Locus iste, WAB23
Virga Jesse floruit, WAB52
Mass for five voices
Mass for four voices
Mass in D major, op.86, B175
Give unto the Lord, op.74
Ave verum Corpus
Foundling Hospital Anthem, HWV268
Israel in Egypt, HWV54
Messiah, HWV56
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne 'Eternal source of light divine', HWV74
Utrecht Jubilate, HWV279
Utrecht Te Deum, HWV278
Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:5 'Cacilienmesse'
Mass in E flat major, Hob.XXII:4 'Grosse Orgelsolomesse'
Mass in F major, Hob.XXII:1 'Missa Brevis'
Mass in G major, Hob.XXII:3 'Rorate coeli desuper'
Mass in G major, Hob.XXII:6 'Missa Sancti Nicolai', 'Nicolaimesse'
I will love Thee, O Lord
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Missa Bell' amfritit' altera
Omnes de Saba venient
Penitenial Psalms (7)
Tui sunt coeli
Motets (4) pour le temps de Noel
Motets (4) pour un temps de penitence, FP97
Hymn of the Cherubim
Canticum Sacrum
Credo
Mass
Symphony of Psalms
Pater noster
Pezzi sacri (4)
Nulla in mundo pax sincera, RV630
A Litany: Drop, drop, slow tears
All this time
Jubilate Deo
Make we joy now in this fest
Missa Brevis
Set me as a seal upon thine heart
The Twelve
What cheer?
Where does the uttered music go?
Artists
Elizabeth Gale (soprano)Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Judith Nelson (soprano)
Lilian Watson (soprano)
Gareth Hayward (treble)
Nicholas Jones (treble)
Shirley Minty (mezzo-soprano)
Carolyn Watkinson (mezzo-soprano)
James Bowman (countertenor)
Charles Brett (countertenor)
Andrew Giles (countertenor)
Alan Byers (tenor)
Philip Cave (tenor)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Paul Elliott (tenor)
Martyn Hill (tenor)
Arthur Lindley (tenor)
Ian Partridge (tenor)
Neil Ritchie (tenor)
David Roy (tenor)
Mark Rowlinson (baritone)
Peter Herron (bass)
Tom McDonnell (bass)
Robert Morton (bass)
David Thomas (bass)
Alan Watt (bass)
Nicholas Cleobury (organ)
Stephen Darlington (organ)
Simon Preston (organ)
Colin Walsh (organ)
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Academy of Ancient Music
English Chamber Orchestra
London Sinfonietta
Philip Jones Ensemble
Conductors
Simon PrestonChristopher Hogwood
About
When he took his first post at Westminster Abbey, in 1962, he was said to be the youngest organist at the royal church since Henry Purcell, three centuries earlier. After briefly covering for Peter Hurford as Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral in 1968, he took charge of the choir at Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford in 1970; he also lectured at the university. He brought out a fervent, firm tone and an impressive agility in the choir of Christ Church – just as he would when he later returned to Westminster Abbey, before concentrating on a career as an international concert and recording artist.
When he arrived at Christ Church, Preston was very much the “new broom”. His intelligence and erudition as a scholar together with his innate superhuman energy revitalised the choir with a verve not often apparent in the genteel world of English cathedral music and it was not long before there was an ambition to make recordings, the first of which was of Walton’s music. With a judicious choice of repertory, the subsequent discs garnered excellent reviews and the cathedral choir began to be recognised as one of the finest collegiate choirs.
Together they set down acclaimed accounts – often with the period instrument specialists of the English Concert and the Academy of Ancient Music – of composers from Haydn back to Handel and Purcell, and beyond to Lassus and Palestrina. The discs in this set – their complete recordings on the Argo and L’Oiseau-Lyre labels – are testimony to Preston’s remarkable achievements there.
- Collected here in one edition are the complete Argo and L’Oiseau-Lyre recordings of Simon Preston conducting the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
- 19 CDs in original jackets
- Highlights include acclaimed accounts of composers from Haydn back to Handel and Purcell, and beyond to Lassus and Palestrina
- The recordings are accompanied by a 32-page book with new notes by conductor, choirmaster and composer Ronald Corp, who was a chorister under Preston
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