Mendelssohn: Choral Music

Naxos 8.572836

Playing time: 77'08

Recorded at the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, Hertfordshire, UK, on 16th and from 19th to 21st July, 2011

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Sechs Sprüche • Hear my prayer • Motets, Op. 39 • Magnificat and Nunc dimittis • Ave Maria • Psalm 43

St Albans Abbey Girls Choir / Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral Choir - Tom Winpenny


	Sechs Sprüche, Op. 79	[10:06]
1.	I. Frohlocket, ihr Völker auf Erden	[1:27]
2.	II. Herr Gott, du bist uns're Zuflucht für und für	[2:29]
3.	III. Erhaben, o Herr, über alles Lob	[1:34]
4.	IV. Herr, gedenke nicht unser Übeltaten	[1:21]
5.	V. Lasset uns frohlocken	[1:35]
6.	VI. Um uns'rer Sünden willen	[1:38]

7.	How lovely are the messengers (from St Paul, Op. 36)	[3:24]
8.	Hear my prayer	[11:14]
9.	Three Motets, Op. 39: No. 1 Veni Domine	[4:05]
10.	Allegro, Chorale and Fugue in D	[8:20]

	Three Motets, Op. 69	[14:35]
11.	No. 3 Magnificat	[9:46]
12.	No. 1 Nunc dimittis	[4:49]

	Three Motets, Op. 39: No. 3 Surrexit pastor bonus	[8:59]
13.	I. Surrexit pastor bonus	[3:18]
14.	II. Tulerunt Dominum meum	[2:36]
15.	III. Surrexit Christus spes mea	[3:04]

16.	Ave Maria, Op. 23, No. 2	[6:29]

	Three Motets, Op. 39: No. 2 Laudate pueri Dominum	[5:53]
17.	I. Laudate pueri Dominum	[3:35]
18.	II. Beati omnes	[2:18]

19.	Three Psalms, Op. 78: No. 2 Richte mich, Gott	[4:04]

Laura Hicks, soprano (8)
Philip Salmon, tenor (16)
Peter Holder, organ (7-9, 11-18)
Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral Choir (1-8, 11-12, 16, 19):
Alto: Neil Baker (soloist 4), Simon Barton (soloist 16), Derek Harrison, Roger Mullis (soloist 11), Tony Price (soloist 16)
Tenor: Rogers Covey-Crump, David Martin-Smith (soloist 11), Oliver Martin-Smith (soloist 4, 16), Graham Rees, Philip Salmon (soloist 16), Andrew Shepstone
Bass: Kenneth Burgess (soloist 11), Alan Herbert (soloist 16), William Houghton, David Ireson (soloist 4), Geoff McMahon (soloist 16)
St Albans Abbey Girls Choir (1-9, 11-19)
Tom Winpenny, conductor / organ (10)