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A Sequence of Music and Readings for Remembrance
The Proteus Ensemble
directed by Stephen Shellard

20 in stock

SKU: REGCD435 Categories: ,

Description

The first recording from the professional vocal group, The Proteus Ensemble, directed by Stephen Shellard.

A beautiful and moving selection of music and readings for the commemoration of 1914, recorded in Worcester Cathedral.

Track List

Reading: Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, Verses 1–8
1:31
Organ: Elegy — Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
3:22
Reading: To His Love — Ivor Gurney
0:52
Messe pour Notre-Dame Kyrie — David Briggs
5:21
Exhortation (They shall grow not old) — John Tavener
3:20
Reading: Still falls the Rain — Dame Edith Louise Sitwell
2:31
And I saw a new Heaven — Edgar Bainton
5:44
Reading: Not to Keep — Robert Frost
1:55
Quam dilecta! — Donald Hunt
4:40
Reading: Everyone Sang— Siegfried Sassoon
0:42
Messe pour Notre-Dame Sanctus — Briggs
3:12
Messe pour Notre-Dame Benedictus — Briggs
3:31
Organ: Méditation — Maurice Duruflé
3:54
Kohima (When you go home) — Tavener
1:45
Reading: The Veteran — Margaret P Cole
0:55
Messe pour Notre-Dame Agnus Dei — Briggs
6:06
Serenity — James MacMillan
4:52
Reading: May 1915 — Charlotte Mew
0:59
Jesu, dulcis memoria — Pierre Villette
3:47
Reading: For the Fallen — Laurence Binyon
0:21
O Lord, support us — Briggs
6:49

Total Playing time: 66:15

Production credits

Recorded in Worcester Cathedral (musical items) on 29/30 October 2013, and The Elgar Music School (readings) on 4 November 2013

Recording producer and engineer: Gary Cole

Sample audio extracts

Reviews

‘No doubt 2014 will bring a flood of tributes and memorials to what happened a century ago but I doubt that there will be many better than this one. ‘  Cross Rhythms August 2014