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The Sacred Flame - Cambridge Singers
I'll be honest, my mental image of the Cambridge Singers is of rather heavy handed singing, suitable for John Rutter's jolly carols, but not exactly competition for the Sixteen. However in this collection of Renaissance and Baroque they have proved they can do subtlety too. The Monteverdi pieces bounce along with just enough lightness. There's a wonderful range of the best music here. Gesualdo's O vos omnes, for example, is full of 'he can't do that!' moments - it's electrifying. Buxtehude's chunky and jubilant Magnificat adds a little light relief among the exquisite likes of Victoria and Josquin Desprez... and it runs through neatly through Schütz to the (relatively) trendy 'new' music of Mr Bach.
All in all a great collection.
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
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Magdalen Service
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 - one of the ultimate Mag & Nunc settings, yet not difficult - particularly moving Nunc
- C
- Latin (Op 164) - Stanford's powerful Latin setting of the Magnificat for double unaccompanied SATB
- F - the Queens’ Service
- G
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
Bob Chilcott
- A Little Jazz Mass - does what it says on the tin - SATB, piano and optional jazz combo
Michael Wise
- E flat - (part of the Restoration Canticles series) according to the bumf, this is ‘much loved’. We’re not familiar with it, but obviously popular
Bob Chilcott
- Downing Service - commissioned by Downing College, Cambridge
Geoffrey Burgon
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - SA setting. Nunc was theme for Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy on TV
Bairstow
Bryan Kelly
- Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - wonderfully rhythmical Latin American style setting
James Whitbourn
- Collegium Regale - first performed at King’s College, Cambridge in 2005
John Blow
Daniel Purcell
Thomas Attwood
Edward Bairstow
- Communion Service in D (SATB)
William Boyce
Ernest Bullock
- C with minor 7th - SATB and organ
- D
Richard Farrant
- Benedictus in G minor - SATB and organ (Ed. West)
- Te Deum in G minor - SATB and organ (Ed. West)
John Goss
John Goss
- Benedictus in C - SATB
- Benedictus in D - SATB
- Cantate Domino and Deus Misereatur in C - SATB
- Te Deum in A - Unison
- Te Deum in C - SATB
- Te Deum in D - SATB
- Te Deum in F - SATB
- Thanksgiving Te Deum - SATB
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