Regent Records Releases "A Year at Birmingham" with the Choir of Birmingham Cathedral

 

Regent Records Releases "A Year at Birmingham" with the Choir of Birmingham Cathedral

 The newest release in the collectable ‘A Year at..’ series takes us to the glorious baroque church of St Philip in the heart of Birmingham, which became the Cathedral of the new Birmingham Diocese in 1905. 

The Cathedral is renowned for its graceful Italianate architecture and the remarkable late nineteenth-century stained-glass windows, many by Edward Burne-Jones.

In this first recording from Birmingham under musical director, David Hardie, we are taken on a musical journey through the church’s year from Advent to Christ the King.

Alongside the great festivals, Birmingham Cathedral, situated at the heart of Britain’s ‘Second City’, as well as celebrating the cultural and demographic diversity of this great city, has a special mission to support the vulnerable and marginalised in society. The recording features musical items performed during the year to recognise all aspects of its mission.

Advent

1 Rorate caeli – Humphrey Clucas 

Christmas

2 The holly and the ivy – June Nixon* 

3 In silent night – Mitchell B Southall

Epiphany

4 There shall a star from Jacob come forth – Felix Mendelssohn*

Candlemas

5 Nunc dimittis – Gustav Holst 

Racial Justice Sunday

6 Resignation – Florence Price 

Annunciation

7 Ave Maria – Ben Ponniah 

Lent and Passiontide

8 Ex ore innocentium – John Ireland* 3:32

Easter

9 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem – Charles Villiers Stanford*

Ascension

10 Offertoire pour la fête de l’Ascension – Théodore Dubois Organ solo: David Hardie

Pentecost

11 Come down, O Love divine – William Henry Harris*

Trinity

12 Great Lord of Lords – Charles Wood

Corpus Christi

13 Panis angelicus – César Franck*

14 Corpus Christi Carol – Judith Bingham*

Harvest

15 Let the people praise thee, O God – William Mathias*

Dedication Festival

16 Locus iste – Anton Bruckner

All Saints

17 Give us the wings of faith – Ernest Bullock*

All Souls

18 In paradisum – Philip Moore

Safeguarding Sunday

19 A Child’s Prayer – James MacMillan

Christ the King

20 Let all mortal flesh keep silence – Edward Cuthbert Bairstow  

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