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... and the Greatest of these is Love. English Choral Music by Michael Walsh
In their second album for Willowhayne Records, Antiphon presents world premiere recordings of three choral works by Michael Walsh. Two are sacred and one secular: an unaccompanied Mass of the Holy Trinity, a full-scale Requiem Mass, and The Way of Love: a setting of five love poems by the First World War poet Rupert Brooke, scored for choir and strings.
These works reflect the gentle character of the composer's style, steeped through nearly thirty years of singing in English Cathedrals.
Recorded July 2017, Exeter Cathedral, UK
Michael Walsh:
- Mass of the Holy Trinity
- Requiem
- The Way of Love
Listen here to samples of the tracks
Available from:
- Exeter Cathedral Shop
- electronic download from iTunes, Spotify and Amazon
- via Willowhayne Records' distributors, worldwide
CD
O My People
A collection of sublime 20th and 21st century a cappella choral music, including several world première recordings.
Recorded August 2015 in the magnificent acoustic of the Lady Chapel in Exeter Cathedral, UK
- Francis Grier: The Lord goes up
- Eric Whitacre: A Boy and a Girl
- Matthew Cann: In manus tuas*
- Edward Elgar, arr. John Cameron: Lux aeterna
- John Sanders: The Reproaches
- Graham Keitch: O nata lux*
- Matthew Cann: Fauxbourdon Magnificat*
- Matthew Cann: Fauxbourdon Nunc dimittis*
- Graham Keitch: O sacrum convivium*
- Paul Carey: Fishing in the Keep of Silence*
- African-American spiritual, arr. Erik Meyer: I want Jesus to walk with me*
- Eric William Barnum: Flowers for the Altar*
- Edgar Day: When I survey the wondrous Cross
(* world première recording)
Listen here to samples of the tracks
Available from:
- Exeter Cathedral Shop
- electronic download from iTunes, Spotify and Amazon
- via Willowhayne Records' distributors, worldwide
The CD was on the British Airways long-haul playlist for 2017!
O Nata Lux - Keitch
In Manus Tuos - Cann
Libera Nos - Sheppard
Sleep - Whitacre
Fauxbourdon Magnificat - Cann
Ave Maria - Biebl
The Reproaches - Sanders (excerpt)
The Antiphon Director, Matthew Cann, was a chorister at Gloucester Cathedral under Dr. John Sanders and took part in the first performance of The Reproaches.
Buckfast Abbey, Saturday 3rd March 2012.
O Magnum Mysterium - Lauridsen
Buckfast Abbey, Saturday 3rd December 2011.
All recordings grouped together on Youtube