John Sheppard - Cantate Mass: The Sixteen
Two discs and only 4 of 20 tracks are the Cantate mass - there's also a good range of motets including many of Sheppard's best known pieces, such as the Christmas motet Verbum caro factus est and the beautiful Libera nos. If you need convincing of Sheppard's genius, just listen to the Amen of Jesu salvator saeculi, redemptis - taken individually some of the lines sound positively 20th century in their modernity, and in combination it takes your breath away - it's hard not to say 'he can't do that!' - but he does. Perhaps the only criticism is that the Sixteen underplay the clashes so they aren't quite as shocking as they could be. Even so, probably the best introduction to Sheppard now on the market.
Sheet music for services
Includes Mag & Nunc, Preces & Responses, Te Deum and other morning canticles, Masses and Others.
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
The mainstay of evensong in some magnificent settings. If you like Mag & Nuncs, we've some good recordings in our CDs section.
Peter Aston
Richard Ayleward
Joseph Barnby
Adrian Batten
- Fourth Service - masterful and beautiful setting for SSATB and organ
Brewer
William Byrd
George Dyson
Gerald Finzi
- Magnificat - SATB and organ
Orlando Gibbons
Howard Goodall
Basil Harwood
David Hogan
Herbert Howells - If baffled by quantity, try Collegium Regale (but be warned, it's non-trivial)
- Chichester
- Collegium Magdelenae Oxoniense (Magdalene, Oxford)
- Collegium Regale
- Collegium Sancti Johannis Cantabridgiense (St. John's, Cambridge)
- Gloucester
- Hereford
- London Services collection (St Paul's, Westminster, Westminster in B minor)
- New College
- Oxford and Cambridge Collection (King's, Magdalene, New, St. John's)
- St. Augustine's
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- St. Peter's, Westminster
- Sarum
- Southern Counties Collection (Chichester, Salisbury, Winchester)
- Three Choirs Collection (Gloucester, Hereford, Worcester)
- Westminster
- Winchester
- Worcester
- York
John Ireland
Grayston Ives
Kenneth Leighton
Herbert Murrill
Henry Purcell
- G minor - a lovely, light bouncy setting
John Sheppard
Charles Villiers Stanford - the great Edwardian. Try the B flat for starters
- A
- B flat
- Latin (Op 164) - Stanford's powerful Latin setting of the Magnificat for double unaccompanied SATB
Herbert Sumsion
John Stainer
Thomas Tallis
John Tavener
Thomas Attwood Walmisley
Samuel Sebastian Wesley
Charles Wood
Miniature unaccompanied masterpieces that give the liturgical form to evensong and mattins. We don't currently have a listing for possibly the greatest of the responses, William Smith of Durham - Ayleward is a good, simple starter. If you want the Smith it's in a booklet called Tudor Responses in RSCM Music Direct.
- Archer (SSA)
- Richard Ayleward
- Sidney Campbell (Canterbury)
- Sidney Campbell (Windsor)
- Herbert Howells (Canterbury)
- Gabriel Jackson
- Kenneth Leighton
- Lloyd (Hereford)
- Nicholas
- John Reading
- Bernard Rose (ATB)
- Bernard Rose (SATB)
- Bernard Rose (SATTB)
- John Sanders
- John Stainer
- Herbert Sumsion
- Thomas Tallis
- Michael Walsh - SAATB with divisions
- Arthur Wills
Canticles for the morning service.
Benjamin Britten
William Byrd
George Dyson
Edward German
Orlando Gibbons
Herbert Howells
- Benedictus es domine
- Jubilate (Chapel of St. Peter Ad Vincula)
- Te Deum (Buttrey/Washington)
- Te Deum (St Mary Redcliffe)
- Te Deum (St Paul's Chapel, Columbia)
- Te Deum and Benedictus (Canterbury)
- Te Deum and Benedictus (Windsor)
- Te Deum and Jubilate (Collegium Regale)
- Te Deum, Benedictus and Jubilate
John Ireland
- Benedicite, omnia opera in F
- Benedictus in C
- Benedictus in F
- Jubilate in F
- Te Deum in C
- Te Deum in F
James Macmillan
Henry Purcell
Charles Villiers Stanford
- Jubilate in B flat
- Te Deum in B flat (probably - they don't identify the key, but most likely to be)
- Te Deum in B flat (arranged for unison voices)
Herbert Sumsion
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Settings of the communion service from Latin to Common Worship.
Frank Adlam
- Missa de Sanctus (E flat)
- Office of the Holy Communion (D)
- Office of the Holy Communion (E flat)
- Office of the Holy Communion (F)
- Office of the Holy Communion (G)
William Byrd - Byrd's 4 part mass is arguably one of the greatest pieces of music of all time. Superb.
Harold Darke
- Communion Service in A minor - SATB setting, originally written for King's College, Cambridge
- Communion Service in E - SATB setting, originally written for King's College, Cambridge
- Communion Service in F - the most popular setting in British cathedrals
Basil Harwood
Herbert Howells
- Communion (Collegium Regale)
- Coventry Mass
- Mass in the Dorian Mode - SATB unaccompanied
- Missa Aedis Christi
John Ireland
William Lloyd Webber
James Macmillan
W. A. Mozart
Giovanni Palestrina
- Missa Aeterna Christi Munera
- Missa Assumpta Est Maria (ed. Washington)
- Missa Brevis
- Missa Dies Sanctificatus
- Missa Papae Marcelli
John Rutter
- Communion Service (Series 3)
- Communion Service (ASB)
Franz Schubert
John Sheppard
Charles Villiers Stanford
Igor Stravinsky
- Mass for SATB choir and double wind quartet
Herbert Sumsion
Thomas Tallis
Christopher Tye
Arthur Wills
Martin Shaw