Stanford: 3 Motets & Other Choral Music The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge & Stephen Layton

• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924): For Lo, I Raise Up, Op. 145:
• 1 Stanford: For Lo, I Raise Up, Op. 145 08:05
• Service in C Major, Op. 115:
• 2 Stanford: Service in C Major, Op. 115: Morning Canticle 1. Te Deum 07:45
• 3 Latin Motets, Op. 38:
• 3 Stanford: 3 Latin Motets, Op. 38: I. Justorum animae 03:23
• 4 Stanford: 3 Latin Motets, Op. 38: II. Caelos ascendit hodie 01:59
• 5 Stanford: 3 Latin Motets, Op. 38: III. Beati quorum via 03:29
• Lighten Our Darkness:
• 6 Stanford: Lighten Our Darkness 03:48
• Service in C Major, Op. 115:
• 7 Stanford: Service in C Major, Op. 115: Morning Canticle 2. Benedictus 05:31
• Bible Songs and 6 Hymns, Op. 113:
• 8 Stanford: Bible Songs and 6 Hymns, Op. 113: VIb. O for a Closer Walk with God 03:35
• Service in C Major, Op. 115:
• 9 Stanford: Service in C Major, Op. 115: Morning Canticle 3. Jubilate 03:34
• Magnificat for 8-Part Chorus in B-Flat Major, Op. 164:
• 10 Stanford: Magnificat for 8-Part Chorus in B-Flat Major, Op. 164 11:51
• Fantasia and Toccata in D Minor, Op. 57:
• 11 Stanford: Fantasia and Toccata in D Minor, Op. 57: I. Fantasia 05:53
• 12 Stanford: Fantasia and Toccata in D Minor, Op. 57: II. Toccata 06:21
• English Motets, Op. 135:
• 13 Stanford: English Motets, Op. 135: II. Eternal Father 06:29
• Anonymous: St Patrick's Breastplate (Arr. Stanford):
• 14 Anonymous: St Patrick's Breastplate (Arr. Stanford) 09:13
• Total Runtime 01:20:56

Info for Stanford: 3 Motets & Other Choral Music

A programme spanning the variety and sheer emotional range of Stanford’s Anglican choral music (with a notable contribution from Owain Park in the Fantasia and Toccata for organ). You are unlikely to hear quite so stirring a rendition of ‘St Patrick’s Breastplate’ for some time to come …

After his apprenticeship in Dublin and a short period at Queens’ College, Cambridge, as one of Cambridge University’s first organ scholars, Charles Villiers Stanford migrated to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1873 to take up the position of organist owing to the failing health and death of John Larkin Hopkins. Inheriting a renovated organ and an expanding choir with its own choir school, Stanford found himself in an advantageous position to further his career. A capable organist, he promoted Easter Term recitals in Trinity College Chapel and, as a lover of English church music, he endeavoured to improve the choir by increasing the number of boy choristers, pensioning off old lay clerks and advertising for new blood including the appointment of undergraduate choral scholars. As the Master of Trinity, W H Thompson, commented to Archdeacon John Allen (of Salop) in November 1877: We had B[isho]p C. Wordsworth here yesterday at S. Mary’s. He came to us to early tea and went to Chapel at 6. He thinks the Services greatly improved since his time, and so they ought to be, for we spend twice as much on our Choir as we did 10 years ago.

"Recordings of Stanford’s great choral anthems are not short on the ground, but if any choir has justification to return to them it’s Trinity Cambridge … by taking the music seriously, treating it with respect but not reverence, [Layton] gives it a freshness calculated to disarm even the staunchest of musical non-believers" (Gramophone)

"This is an extremely fine disc. The Trinity College choir has a well-deserved reputation as a top-rank ensemble and this new addition to their discography is absolutely up to the standards we have come to expect. These are performances which show why Stanford’s reputation as a composer of excellent liturgical music is so deservedly secure." (MusicWeb International)

"Stocked with female voices rather than boy trebles, the Trinity choir attack this repertoire with a brisk attack and mature aplomb under Stephen Layton’s sensitive direction. There is so much to cherish here, whether Stanford is punching the air or praying in quiet wonderment" (BBC Music Magazine)

Madeleine Todd, soprano
Jamie Roberts, tenor
Owain Park, organ
Alexander Hamilton, organ
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Stephen Layton, conductor

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