The Choir of St John's College, Cambridge

Leighton - English Choral Music

Director of Music:

Christopher Robinson

Organ Scholar:

Christopher Whitton

Ensemble:

Crispian Steele-Perkins (Trumpet)

James Oxley (Tenor)

Record Label:

Naxos

Catalogue Number:

8.555795

Release Date:

Nov 2002

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Kenneth Leighton's distinctive compositional voice is charactized by rich, lush harmonies, subtle dissonance, rhythmic energy and a lilting, angular lyricism. This collection features the two contrasting Canticle Settings, the Easter Sequence, and Crucifixus pro nobis.

Notes:

Soloists: Gareth Jones (Baritone); Benjamin Durrant (Treble);

Reviews:

"Anglican church music has never had more persuasive advocates on disc than Christopher Robinson and the brilliant choir he trained at St John's College, Cambridge. This collection of the church music of Kenneth Leighton...is perhaps the finest of all, brilliantly sung and recorded" The Guardian February 2004
"...A thrilling, soul-affirming experience. I find music and performances I like, more that I admire, some that I love, but not much that evokes affirmation from the soul. This does."
Gramophone March 2004

Track Listing:

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Magnalenae Oxoniense), Leighton

Give me the wings of faith, Leighton

An Easter Sequence, Leighton

Veni creator spiritus, Leighton

What love is this of thine?, Leighton

Crucifixus pro nobis, Leighton

Rockingham: Chorale Prelude on When I survey the wondrous Cross, Leighton

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (The Second Service), Leighton

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