English Choral Music: Stanford

Director of Music:
Christopher RobinsonOrgan Scholar:
Christopher WhittonRelease date:
May 2003Record label:
NaxosCatalogue number:
8.555794Awards:
Editor's Choice
Gramophone
June 2003
Track list
- Te deum laudamus: Morning Service in C: Op. 115
- Benedictus: Morning Service in C: Op. 115
- Justorum animae: Three Latin Motets
- Coelos ascendit hodie: Three Latin Motets
- Beati quorum via: Three Latin Motets
- Magnificat: Evening Service in C, Op. 115
- Nunc dimittis: Evening Service in C, Op. 115
- Kyrie: Communion Service in C, Op. 115
- Credo: Communion Service in C, Op. 115
- Sanctus: Communion Service in C, Op. 115
- Benedictus: Communion Service in C, Op. 115
- Agnus Dei: Communion Service in C, Op. 115
- Gloria: Communion Service in C, Op. 115
- Prelude in G minor, for Organ
- Magnificat: Evening Service in G, Op. 81
- Nunc dimittis: Evening Service in G, Op. 81
- Postlude in D minor, for Organ
- For lo, I raise up, Op. 145
Reviews
Stanford would be gratified to know his sacred works were still being lavished with as much care and attention as are here displayed... Church music doesn't get much better than this
Anthony Holden, The Observer (6th July 2003)
Stanford’s sturdily Edwardian idiom is softened by a sensitivity and warmth in the C major Evening Service. And the G major Service, with its bubbling organ line and treble solo, has the clear, bright delicacy that it should for something so distinctly ‘school of Fauré’
Michael White, Gramophone (January 2015)
As in other issues in the excellent Naxos series, the chapel acoustic is warmly atmospheric, while allowing lightness and transparency in the choral textures, with words commendably clear.
Penguin Guide (January 2009)
The contribution of Andrew Nethsingha and St John's College, Cambridge to the Evensong tradition - both in the chapel and on record - deserves great praise
Gramophone