New from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford

Peace I leave with you - Music for the Evening Hour

Album Description

In their first recording for CORO The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, directed by Mark Williams, explore the repertoire that has provided the bedrock of the college’s musical life for the last 500 years.

Much music associated with evening time is naturally calm and soothing, and would satisfy those seeking transcendental beauty in the form of unchallenging ‘sound baths’, but this collection also seeks to challenge, contrasting contemporary settings with music from the 16th century. We hope, through this range of works, to capture something of that liminal space between day and night that is characterised by Evensong, and to lead the listener into that ‘peace that passes all understanding’.

Artists

The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford
Mark Williams

Track Listing

Amy BEACH (1867-1944)
1. Peace I leave with you

Henry PURCELL (1659-95)
2. Hear my prayer

Roxanna PANUFNIK (b.1968)
3. O Hearken

Orlando GIBBONS (1583-1625)
4. Behold, thou hast made my days

Joanna MARSH (b.1970)
5. Evening Prayer

Christopher TYE (c.1505-73)
6. Lord, let thy servant now depart

Greyston IVES (b.1948)
7. In pace

John SHEPPARD (c.1515-85)
8. Libera nos I & II

Thomas TALLIS (c.1505-85)
9. Te lucis ante terminum I & II

Charles Villiers STANFORD (1857-1924)
10. Eternal Father

Imogen HOLST (1907-84)
11. A Hymne to Christ

Andrew GANT (b.1963)
12. An Evening Hymn of Sir Thomas Browne

Charles WOOD (1866-1926)
13. Hail, gladdening Light

Piers Connor KENNEDY (b.1991)
14. O nata lux

William MUNDY (c.1529-91)
15. O Lord, the maker of all thing

John TAVENER (1944-2013)
16. The Lord's Prayer

Gustav HOLST (1874-1934)
17. Nunc dimittis

Hubert PARRY (1848-1918)
18. Lord, let me know mine end

Total running time: 72.27