Miserere
This release from the admired Westminster Cathedral Choir demonstrates the splendours of the liturgy in the at-once solemn and joyful period of Lent.
Masterworks from the Renaissance—familiar from Westminster Cathedral Choir’s previous award-winning recordings—alternate with works by former organists of the Cathedral (all themselves masters of liturgical composition) and are linked by the plainchant which is at the spiritual heart of the music.
Hearing the music like this in context—and recorded in the unique acoustic of the Cathedral—perfectly replicates the live experience for the listener.
Track list:
1. Attende, Domine - Plainsong
2. Miserere mei, Deus - George Malcolm
3. Emendemus in melius - William Byrd
4. Missa Emendemus in melius - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
5. Kyrie
6. Agnus Dei
7. Scapulis suis - George Malcolm
8. Audi, benigne conditor , Anonymous - liturgical
9. In spiritu humilitatis - Giovanni Croce
10. Evigila super nos, Anonymous - liturgical
11. Magnificat quarti toni - David Bevan
12. Evigila super nos, Anonymous - liturgical
13. Lustus ut palma - Colin Mawby
14. Mass IX 'Cum iubilo', Anonymous - liturgical
15. Kyrie
16. Gloria
17. Veritas mea - George Malcolm
18. Credo IV, Anonymous - liturgical
19. Ave Maria - Robert Parsons
20. Sanctus and Benedictus
21. Agnus Dei
22. Ave virgo sanctissima - Francisco Guerrero
23. Te lucis ante terminum I - Thomas Tallis
24. Salva nos, Domine , Anonymous - liturgical
25. Nunc dimittis tertii toni - George Malcolm
26. Salva nos, Domine, Anonymous - liturgical