Choral evensong for Ascension Day.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

King's College (University of Cambridge). Choir, performer.

Contributor:

Ledger, Philip, conductor.

Trotter, Thomas, performer.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices), Unaccompanied.

Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ.

Organ music.

Ascension Day music.

Genre:

Organ music.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : EMI Classics, [1994]

Language Note:

Sung in English (principally) and Latin.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Contents:

Introit. Alleluia, ascendit Deus / by William Byrd (from Gradualia, ii, 1607)

Sentence (said by the Dean)

Preces / by William Smith of Durham

Psalm 24 (chant) / by Joseph Barnby

First lesson: Ezekiel 1:45 & 26-28 / Chaplain

Hymn: The head that once was crowned with thorns / St. Magnus or Nottingham

Magnificat / by Edmund Rubbra (from Canticles in A flat, op. 65)

Second lesson: epistle to the Hebrews 9:11-15 / Dean

Nunc dimittis in A flat / Rubbra

Creed

Responses / Smith of Durham

Collects for Ascension Day; for peace; for aid against all perils

O clap your hands / by Orlando Gibbons

Ascendit Deus / by Peter Philips (from Cantiones sacrae, 1612)

Prayers / Dean

A prayer of King Henry VI / by Henry George Ley

Blessing / Dean

Hymn: The Lord ascendeth up on high = Nun freut euch

Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn BWV 630 / by J.S. Bach (from Orgelbüchlein)

Toccata / by Eugène Gigout (from Ten pieces, no. 4).

Participant:

Choir of King's College, Cambridge ; Philip Ledger, conductor ; in part with Thomas Trotter, organ.

Notes:

Recorded: Chapel of King's College, Cambridge, December 12-16, 1978.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Michael Till and text in English or Latin with English translation in container.

Contains:

Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623. Gradualia, liber 2. Alleluia, ascendit Deus

Rubbra, Edmund, 1901-1986. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, mixed voices, organ, op. 65, A♭

Gibbons, Orlando, 1583-1625. O clap your hands.

Philips, Peter, 1561-1628. Cantiones sacrae, voices (5). Ascendit Deus

Ley, Henry G. (Henry George), 1887-1962. Prayer of King Henry VI.

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Orgelbüchlein. Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn

Gigout, Eugène, 1844-1925. Pieces, organ (1890). Toccata

OCLC:

32226105

Publisher Number:

7243 5 65102 2 7 EMI Classics

CDM 5 65102 2 EMI Classics